Fermentation Chamber

Well, what can I say, it's Christmas in July. I finaly purchased the stuff I needed for a fermentation chamber. My Ranco 2 Stage Pre-wired Temperature Controller has arrived, and I found and purchased the other piece I needed, the Freezer. I was lucky, while hitting all the appliance stores, and ready to head home for the day, I decided to check out Lowes in Burton, MI. USA. As I was heading to the Appliance area, I walked by a Frigedaire 14.8 cuft chest freezer in the center of the aisle. What luck, a dented freezer marked down from $439 to $339 and I could not find a dent on it, the salesman could not find it either, then we did find it, it was center at the bottom, of the freezer and so small it's a "who cares issue". Well, I thought I was lucky, $339 for a 14.8 cuft Chest freezer from a decent manufacturer. Then the sales guy told me that if I was interested, that their policy at Lowes is to throw in an extended warranty for 2 more years beyond the manufacturer warranty for a total of 3 yrs. all parts/labor on scratch and dents? PUT A SOLD SIGN ON IT. It gets delivered Monday I am looking forward to trying to do some Lager's now that I can control my fermentation temps, and also keep some of the off flavors in my Ales I think I am getting from fermentating at too high of a temp.
How's the saying go?, "Even a blind squirrel finds a nut sometimes". CHEERS

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Hey guy's, thanks for the conversation on the fermentation chamber. To answer BBH's question, yes there was a few factors why I bought new. Believe me, $ wise, I wanted used and researched Craigslist and store sales for a month or longer. I found the Craigslist to be too pricy for a 5 yr old with NO Warranty left on them. The compressors are 95% of the price of the freezer I figure, if they go bad, I get a bill for $400.00 for parts and labor. My luck would be to buy a CraigsList Freezer and it would run great for 5 month's and then I would loose two batches of beer and a freezer. People ask 2/3 of the new price for a used one on CL and they have no warranty and may be 4 to 9 yrs old. I just decided to go new with a warranty and yes, it is Energy Star rated, supposedly 30 something bucks to run for a year, that's based on freezing, I don't know what to expect at warmer ferm. temps. I still have a bad taste in my mouth from a used upright freezer I bought 10 yrs ago, I paid $150 for it (3yrs old), it ran great until it did not (1 year later) and I was out my $150 and about a 1/4 beef and half a pig. I am looking forward to doing Lagers once I get it all set up, I have to wait for about a month due to moving to a new home, I don't want to transport several fermenters full.

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