Yes, yes you can.

In my previous post I outlined what I was hoping to acheive with this project. I have now completed the mark II revision and will soon have some results to taste.

The process was reasonably simple with a little electronic magic.

The first part of the project was to build a cabinet to hold the fermentation carboy. This is a 30 litre container that is used to hold the beer mixture while the yeast chows down on the fermentable sugars to produce alcohol. The cabinet is basically just a 6mm MDF box with another 6mm MDF box a little smaller on the inside. This creates a 1 inch void on each side that I filled with marine expanding foam.

Voila! A big ice-box basically.

That was the easy part.
OK onto the electronics and hardware.
In order to control the temperature, you are going to need two components.
1. a method to control the temperature
2. a method to affect change on the temperature

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So, I am trying to diagnose a power issue that we have in the new house.

Maybe twice or three times a month the Earth Leakage Breaker will pop in the dead of the morning, cutting power to the house. Luckily I havent been caught out yet missing my train due to the alarm being off, but it is only a matter of time I guess.

We dont have much turned on at that time in the morning, only a handful of mobile phone and laptop charges and the occasional plug pack for various devices, a couple of computers and oh yeah, the fridge.

On discussing this matter with a few electricians on the OverClockers.com.au forums, it was decided to try and isolate the issue, despite the fact that it might take 12 months to do so.

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