Thread: Kegerator
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Old 01-27-2007, 05:30 PM
Adriel Ickler
 
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Re: Kegerator

as long as you keep the lines flowing regularly bacteria/spoilage
shouldn't be an issue. (Don't go more than a couple days without a beer!)

The easiest method of cooling the draft tower is get a cheap computer
fan and blow air up into the tower.

your only issue is how to power it, you should be able to get an old
power adapter (I believe its 5VDC, but you can check on the fan, it
doesnt matter if you over-volt a little, (6-7VDC should be fine) as long
as you add a variable resistor, and dont make the fan spin too fast.
i.e. volume control type knob).

I imagine it would cost about $20 to make one.

Mine has a duct that comes off the evaporator fan, but then I have a
very fancy kegerator:

(I have an older version of this one

[url]http://www.micromatic.com/keg-refrigerators/commercial-keg-refrigerators-pid-DD68.html[/url]

)

dlihcsnatas wrote:[color=blue]
> I am in the process of building my own out of a mini fridge I picked up
> for free several years back. It will hold 2 five gallon cornies. So
> far I have one faucet and a CO2 with regulator on the way. I will be
> building the faucet area on top out of wood and hope to get a second
> faucet in a couple months.
>
> Thanks Adriel for the advice. Really don't have a way of keeping the
> lines coming out of the top of the fridge cold and was wondering what
> would be the outcome of that. Mostly I was worried the beer would
> begin to create bacteria or something in the line causing taste or even
> stomach problems. If all it does is create some excess foam I can live
> with that.
>
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