I was thinking about this and wondering what the advantage of doing Glycol is. I have my glycol setup and it works pretty good. However wondering what the real advantage is of this over say the same AC unit hooked up to an insulated cabinet.

Orion and I were talking about this. He has had a lot of luck with his insulated shed and a window AC unit. I have been thinking about building an insulated cabinet to hold 4 carboys of Sankes with an AC unit on it.

Just thinking out loud about what the advantage of doing the Glycol powerpak would be over the cabinet, especially since not all of us have the time of retired guy like you do Tim.

I have been debating making a cold room in the garage. and keeping it at 45-50 for Lagers and to also store my kegs. It would basically be like Orion's shed except inside. The biggest issue I have heard about is getting rid of condensation.

But as you mentioned Tim, the biggest thing is you can run different temps on different fermentor's with this setup, people with cold rooms really only get one temp to run with.

VERY COOL!

I had thought about doing something like this for a while. In the end for me it's going to be easier and less time consuming to build a cabinet with a window AC. I figure I can build an insulated box that will hold 6 carboys or 4 Sankes pretty easy and pretty cheap.

Is the deal you got on the AC unit still good?

That is incredible.