Beer Forum

mccullpl · #1 (**permalink**) 06-10-2007, 12:35 PM

Hi all, I have a Sanyo dual tap kegerator (same as the Kenmore and Summit, I undertand), and I recently installed the Dayton blower and have the air pushed through 1 1/4" sump pump tubing, with the beer lines inside it. The temp of the cup of water in the kegerator is 38 deg. The temp at the top of the tower is 45 deg. Do I need to use larger diameter tubing? or not run the beer lines inside it? any suggestions? My blower placement and tubing routing looks just like the pics in the big Danby thread.

Thanks in advance,
Pat

chuckster_ca · #2 (**permalink**) 06-11-2007, 09:44 AM

Have you setup the blower to run continuously?

mccullpl · #3 (**permalink**) 06-11-2007, 01:57 PM

Yep. Hardwired it to the kegerators power cord.

psychodad · #4 (**permalink**) 06-11-2007, 03:14 PM

Is your tower opening large enough to allow the air you blow up into the tower to return out the bottom?

Also with two beer lines inside your blower tubing, you may not be getting all the air you want up to the top of the tower. IMHO, you don't need to cool the beer lines inside the blower duct, you just need to cool them in the tower. Once you have blown cold air to the top, it will cool the beer lines just fine when it tries to return out the bottom.

mccullpl · #5 (**permalink**) 06-11-2007, 08:18 PM

I was thinking that too. I'll give it a try.

mccullpl · #6 (**permalink**) 06-12-2007, 06:58 AM

Well, running the beer lines outside the hose didn't seem to do much. Still around 44 degrees. Is there a chance the hose, being corrugated (ribbed, whatever you want to call it) is warming the air up as it travels through it?

Pat

Skinsfan1311 · #7 (**permalink**) 06-12-2007, 10:42 AM

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Originally Posted by mccullpl

Yep. Hardwired it to the kegerators power cord.

Hi.

I have an older Kenmore, and was thinking of installing a blower. It's a single tap. I have a few questions, if you don't mind!

Did you just splice the wires directly to the powercord, along with the other wires that the power cord is spliced to?

How did you run the wires from the fan, (from the inside of the fridge), to the location where they were spliced to the power cord? Did you drill a hole?

Finally.....how/where did you mount the fan, inside of the box.

Thanks!

psychodad · #8 (**permalink**) 06-12-2007, 11:21 AM

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Originally Posted by mccullpl

Is there a chance the hose, being corrugated (ribbed, whatever you want to call it) is warming the air up as it travels through it?

Not likely, but it may well be cutting off the flow. Blowers like this aren't really a fixed displacement. Blocking the outlet, will reduce what is moved by the blower wheel. Try taking the top off of your tower and seeing how much air you feel at the top when you do. There should be nearly enough to blow the flame off of a match.

mccullpl · #9 (**permalink**) 06-12-2007, 01:25 PM

Skinsfan: If you take the top off, you'll see where the power cord comes in, and goes to the compressor and thermostat. I just cut the power cord wires, and spliced in before they got to the compressor and t-stat. I currently have the blower in the back, right corner, on the floor of the kegerator. Yea, I drilled a hole it the top just big enough to get the wires through, and sealed it up with some of that grey putty.

Psychodad: I seem to be getting decent flow, and I'm running 1 1/4" tubing, so I don't think I'm restricting the output of the blower. What are you using for your tubing?

psychodad · #10 (**permalink**) 06-12-2007, 04:41 PM

You mean you're getting decent flow to the top of the tower with the top off? If so then you must be getting the air back out the bottom. I'm not using anything for tubing because I don't have a big enough tower cooling issue that I've taken the time to cool it yet. I do have an empty keg at the moment so I may get to it this week if I can, but I also have some things going on that most likely will keep from it yet again.

mccullpl · #11 (**permalink**) 06-13-2007, 11:00 AM

Well, not sure what I did, but the air temp coming out at the top of the tower is now within 1 deg of the temp at the bottom. I did fashion a air deflector that sits under the cap on the tower, to hopefully smooth the airflow back down into the kegerator. I doubt ths was the fix, but I ain't complaining.

Pat

Skinsfan1311 · #12 (**permalink**) 06-13-2007, 06:53 PM

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Originally Posted by mccullpl

Skinsfan: If you take the top off, you'll see where the power cord comes in, and goes to the compressor and thermostat. I just cut the power cord wires, and spliced in before they got to the compressor and t-stat. I currently have the blower in the back, right corner, on the floor of the kegerator. Yea, I drilled a hole it the top just big enough to get the wires through, and sealed it up with some of that grey putty.

Sounds easy enough....thanks!