How many beads for my coolerdor?

ejasenovic

chrislolds

ejasenovic

Gotcha thanks!! And thanks for that "edit". Someone also sent me a PM because they couldn't post here...and I ALMOST got the HTML correct...

chrislolds

ejasenovic

Can't believe I missed this...but on the Heartfelt site there's a "calculator". You put in measurements...it tells you what you need. Genius! (Them, not me...Ha)

rwheelwright

ejasenovic:

Can't believe I missed this...but on the Heartfelt site there's a "calculator". You put in measurements...it tells you what you need. Genius! (Them, not me...Ha)

DOUCHE! You didn't tell me you were getting a cooler!

ejasenovic

Cigary

I set up my 120 quart cooler last week and it's filled to the top....I put cedar sheets on the bottom and sides and used about 2 full cups of KL and sprayed it each cup with about 5 sprays each....it's a week later and it is staying at 67% with no movement plus or minus. I haven't added any DW since the first day and the nice thing with KL is you can put as much as you want but with my experience using KL for 5 years I pretty much knew how to set it up. Beads work well and if you want to go with beads I'd say at least 2 cups is a good starting point.

Bob Luken

I've heard many times that you should use more kitty litter than beads. And the theory was that beads are silica that is "manufactured" to have more pores on its surface. KL is basically natural mined silica and does not have as many pores and therefore you need more to do the same job as beads. KL is WAY cheaper, so using more KL than beads is not a problem. The only problem is you give up a little extra space in the cooler.

jd50ae

100,879

Bob Luken

jd50ae:

100,879

OK JD, how many licks does it take to get to the tootsie roll center of a tootsie pop?

0patience

Bob Luken:

jd50ae:

100,879

OK JD, how many licks does it take to get to the tootsie roll center of a tootsie pop?

Cigary

Bob Luken:

I've heard many times that you should use more kitty litter than beads. And the theory was that beads are silica that is "manufactured" to have more pores on its surface. KL is basically natural mined silica and does not have as many pores and therefore you need more to do the same job as beads. KL is WAY cheaper, so using more KL than beads is not a problem. The only problem is you give up a little extra space in the cooler.

This is why you buy a bigger cooler next time....I am looking at buying the biggest I can find...walk in cooler perhaps?

avengethis

I am setting up a 70qt cooler right now. I will be running a full pound of beads. I could probably sneak by with 1/2lb but it was close on the calculations so I went with the full. I might pull some out and use them in my desktop humi to get the rh down to 65% instead of the 70% it holds right now.