What temp is everyone setting the cooler to if you are going straight from harvest/trim into the chamber? I've tried to read through and am going cross-eyed, so want to just ask if there have been any agreed upon best temps to run the dry and cure at? Is it still best to keep temp at 60*f and ramp down RH .5-1% daily? Or have people had better success running the temps higher or lower?
Thermoelectric wine cooler drying and curing - DIY
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Hook Daddy
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I have been using 55°f and you have rh correct. It works well between 50°-65°f but I like 55 for all around good terpy flavor.
Finally this website is back, I built mine and have my first lot in there, looks full at the start here but that was only about half my harvest. Probably should of packed it even tighter, I'd say there is about 8 ounces in there just down to 62% now, gonna let it ride at 62 for a week or so then drop to 60 and into grove bags
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misterlaxx
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dunno if this video was posted prior, but if your Koolatrons (General Thermo Coolers) shit out, you can do this fix for like 40bucks maybe less, and/or might be in the warranty period for them to just send out a new one.
Heh, just wanted to poke my nose in again with an update and a "finding".
I put a crop in the Koolatron about a month ago and it's gone great.
The only issue that I've had has to do with the RH values in the Koolatron. I'm using a Pohl Schmitt dehu and an AC Infinity controller. Temp is set to 60 with RH at 62. The screenshot below is from the Govee sensors, one on each shelf (in ascending order). The sensors were calibrated a couple of weeks ago using Boveda 75% RH packs.
Note that sensors 1-4 are very close to 63% but #5 is significantly lower. Since I've only got 10 ounces in the fridge, I decided to put the bud on shelves 1-4. If you need put bud on the bottom shelf, you might want to rotate the shelves because 57% is pretty dry.
I put a crop in the Koolatron about a month ago and it's gone great.
The only issue that I've had has to do with the RH values in the Koolatron. I'm using a Pohl Schmitt dehu and an AC Infinity controller. Temp is set to 60 with RH at 62. The screenshot below is from the Govee sensors, one on each shelf (in ascending order). The sensors were calibrated a couple of weeks ago using Boveda 75% RH packs.
Note that sensors 1-4 are very close to 63% but #5 is significantly lower. Since I've only got 10 ounces in the fridge, I decided to put the bud on shelves 1-4. If you need put bud on the bottom shelf, you might want to rotate the shelves because 57% is pretty dry.