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&amp;quot;Adeptus&amp;quot;:241wbp2f wrote: Or... make two, and couple them. Use one outside in a bucket of ice before it flows into the one in your wort so you really super charge your cooling <!-- s:D --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_biggrin.gif" alt="" title="Very Happy" /><!-- s:D --> And sell it if you don't need it.[/quote:241wbp2f]
Ooh I like that idea! Anything that has the words "super" & "charge" together is always a good project to get involved with!

That's for all the suggestions.

&amp;quot;Adeptus&amp;quot;:1kzuvkll wrote: In that case, I see no issue with a double coil, except normally you run cold in the top, and take hot from the bottom. [/quote:1kzuvkll]


Isn't it the other way around? Cold in the bottom and hot out the top? That's the way my one from Leyland works anyway, makes sense so that the coils fill and you don't have gravity stopping the filling action?

The way I see it, hot wort sits at the top, so you want the coolest water hitting the top of the coil to get the most cooling action. At least that's been my experience. It probably doesn't make a huge difference with a single coil. Your mileage may vary...

As for the filling action, it's under pressure, so it's gonna flow anyway. You could say if you connect the input to the top of the coil, it pours in under gravity, not pushing up from the bottom. In reality, either way it has to be pushed out at some point unless you have the coil outlet coming out of the base of your boiler. <!-- s:) --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_smile.gif" alt="" title="Smile" /><!-- s:) -->

Anyway, Palmer agrees with me and says in at the top[/url:3q039y9m]. That could have saved me a lot of typing <!-- s:D --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_biggrin.gif" alt="" title="Very Happy" /><!-- s:D -->

I used the inner tube of a stainless steel kitchen bin to form a wort chiller.

&amp;quot;Adeptus&amp;quot;:3vkynd4g wrote: The way I see it, hot wort sits at the top, so you want the coolest water hitting the top of the coil to get the most cooling action. At least that's been my experience. It probably doesn't make a huge difference with a single coil. Your mileage may vary...

As for the filling action, it's under pressure, so it's gonna flow anyway. You could say if you connect the input to the top of the coil, it pours in under gravity, not pushing up from the bottom. In reality, either way it has to be pushed out at some point unless you have the coil outlet coming out of the base of your boiler. <!-- s:) --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_smile.gif" alt="" title="Smile" /><!-- s:) -->

Anyway, Palmer agrees with me and says in at the top[/url:3vkynd4g]. That could have saved me a lot of typing <!-- s:D --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_biggrin.gif" alt="" title="Very Happy" /><!-- s:D -->[/quote:3vkynd4g]

Ok fair enough, just my one is designed differently, it comes with a tube to increase the diameter of the inpipe and that's on the bottom....

&amp;quot;Diablo&amp;quot;:l3tc2798 wrote: I used the inner tube of a stainless steel kitchen bin to form a wort chiller.[/quote:l3tc2798]
That's a good idea. Although my bin would be fairly manky. <!-- s:oops: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_redface.gif" alt="" title="Embarassed" /><!-- s:oops: --> I'd have to give it a good clean first. Although the benefits of using a piece of pipe is that you can turn the vertical length up through it at the start.


As for which end for the "cold in"

Top would make sense because it would mean that the water would be contact with the hot part first and thereby have a longer time to cool.