Hi All,
We just got some of our new tanks for our brewery on Wednesday. they all have two zones of glycol jacket, the fittings are 1" MNPT. I am going with a 3 1/3hp glycol chiller that is not a typical chiller, it is meant to be more of a homebrew setup but should easily cool and cold crash our 5 bbl system. Each tank will have it's own pump which will turn on and off with it's own controller. The problem I need help with is the hoses the chiller is setup for is 3/8" hose barbs, I had planned on running a hose from the barb and connecting up with pex and then from there plumb all of the pex to the lowest inlet on the tank, jumper the first zone outlet to the second zone inlet and return the glycol to the chiller reservoir from the top outlet port. I realize this isn't how the pro's do it but it's what I can afford right now.
My issue is I am having trouble finding a 1" female NPT adapter that goes to 1/2" PEX, I would prefer to run all this in 1/2" pex but am having a really really tough time finding the right adapter without doing multiple adapters. I also am concerned about going with brass which I have found some items available versus stainless.
I've searched forums and googled everything I can think of and just asking for help at this point. Any suggestions?
Thanks,
RP
We just got some of our new tanks for our brewery on Wednesday. they all have two zones of glycol jacket, the fittings are 1" MNPT. I am going with a 3 1/3hp glycol chiller that is not a typical chiller, it is meant to be more of a homebrew setup but should easily cool and cold crash our 5 bbl system. Each tank will have it's own pump which will turn on and off with it's own controller. The problem I need help with is the hoses the chiller is setup for is 3/8" hose barbs, I had planned on running a hose from the barb and connecting up with pex and then from there plumb all of the pex to the lowest inlet on the tank, jumper the first zone outlet to the second zone inlet and return the glycol to the chiller reservoir from the top outlet port. I realize this isn't how the pro's do it but it's what I can afford right now.
My issue is I am having trouble finding a 1" female NPT adapter that goes to 1/2" PEX, I would prefer to run all this in 1/2" pex but am having a really really tough time finding the right adapter without doing multiple adapters. I also am concerned about going with brass which I have found some items available versus stainless.
I've searched forums and googled everything I can think of and just asking for help at this point. Any suggestions?
Thanks,
RP
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