Can the defrost timer also be too blame? I use probe taped to the fermenter but I get higher temps from time to time. I though it was from the $100 refrigerator not being able to keep up, but now I think it may be the defrost timer. I switch out frozen 2-liter bottles twice a day to try to conterract this.
Fermenter a lager at 44°-50°, is there going to be a build up of ice in the freezer section if you bypass the defrost timer?
Is there a better solution? I could make it a dedicated refrigerator by cutting out most of the divider between the freezer and refrigerator sections so that the whole unit is at one temperature controlled by the external thermostat ( and bypass the defrost timer).
