Any idea what the black panel is with the blue lights? Almost looked like a router at first.
gumbo271
Coolbot a small farming innovation to hack an ac unit to make a walk in for veggies waiting to be sold. Not sure about this application though
echohotel09
I’ve heard of smaller breweries using these. The thing wired to the AC unit is called a CoolBot. From what I understand, it basically uses sensors to trick the unit to keep running full send while a heating element keeps it from freezing up.
rilemay33
Still sketchy as hell. Luckily it doesn’t look like there are any proteins in there
IandIreckon
This looks like a cool room for veggies, not a full blown walk in
increduloushyperbole
Nice! CoolBots are dope.
I worked at a place that had a storage container converted to a walk-in. Ran two AC units for our refrigeration, and when one went out it was immediately swapped out with extra units we had on hand.
Keeps you from counting on refrigeration repair guys, and kept us from losing product.
Potential-Mail-298
I used a cool bot for dry curing. In a small application I could imagine it would work for some cold storage like a root cellar kinda thing but I doubt it could recover with the amount of traffic a walk in can have
ButterBeanRumba
What was the temp in there? That’s really all that matters, imo
Brewtime2
Clearly the health department hasnt been there yet.
Pegomastax_King
It’s called a cool-bot and they work. And a fraction of the cost of standard walk in. Plus it’s pretty easy to have a back up AC for them incase it dies.
Archberdmans
It’s 43 degrees in there after he dropped off the stuff leaving the door open, this is fine. It probably goes down to upper 30s with door closed consistently
Early-Department-696
A hash makers best friend right there
mfante
COOLBOT!!! This may very well be legit and a lot less sketchy than you think! Assuming it’s all working correctly and monitored
abdulalhaqq
I had a pizza dough cooler powered by one of these. It worked pretty okay if you didnt leave the door open all the time
Mr3cto
I actually read an article on a homesteading site a few years back where they did a guide on how to build one of these. It was actually really cool and held temp great.
They did poured concrete walls, base and ceiling. Lined the inside with diamond steel plates and had two AC units on either side of the walls. Those were hooked up to a cool bot/heating element. The room held at 38 degrees. It was used as a breakdown/butcher room. If I remember correctly it cost around $7,000 to build it back when I read the article
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Any idea what the black panel is with the blue lights? Almost looked like a router at first.
Coolbot a small farming innovation to hack an ac unit to make a walk in for veggies waiting to be sold. Not sure about this application though
I’ve heard of smaller breweries using these. The thing wired to the AC unit is called a CoolBot. From what I understand, it basically uses sensors to trick the unit to keep running full send while a heating element keeps it from freezing up.
Still sketchy as hell. Luckily it doesn’t look like there are any proteins in there
This looks like a cool room for veggies, not a full blown walk in
Nice! CoolBots are dope.
I worked at a place that had a storage container converted to a walk-in. Ran two AC units for our refrigeration, and when one went out it was immediately swapped out with extra units we had on hand.
Keeps you from counting on refrigeration repair guys, and kept us from losing product.
I used a cool bot for dry curing. In a small application I could imagine it would work for some cold storage like a root cellar kinda thing but I doubt it could recover with the amount of traffic a walk in can have
What was the temp in there? That’s really all that matters, imo
Clearly the health department hasnt been there yet.
It’s called a cool-bot and they work. And a fraction of the cost of standard walk in. Plus it’s pretty easy to have a back up AC for them incase it dies.
It’s 43 degrees in there after he dropped off the stuff leaving the door open, this is fine. It probably goes down to upper 30s with door closed consistently
A hash makers best friend right there
COOLBOT!!! This may very well be legit and a lot less sketchy than you think! Assuming it’s all working correctly and monitored
I had a pizza dough cooler powered by one of these. It worked pretty okay if you didnt leave the door open all the time
I actually read an article on a homesteading site a few years back where they did a guide on how to build one of these. It was actually really cool and held temp great.
They did poured concrete walls, base and ceiling. Lined the inside with diamond steel plates and had two AC units on either side of the walls. Those were hooked up to a cool bot/heating element. The room held at 38 degrees. It was used as a breakdown/butcher room. If I remember correctly it cost around $7,000 to build it back when I read the article