How do I hook up my portable unit to my tanks? (Justin)

So, let’s go over how this unit being portable and the quick connects would integrate into potentially an existing system that you already have a larger chiller connected to. So this has easy to operate quick connect fittings. They’re like hydraulic fitting that doesn’t lose any glycol. Everything’s contained in the unit.

You’re going to quick-connect that into our male quick-connect. This is a hose. This unit comes with twenty five foot hoses, so you’ve got a hose here with a female on the other side. So most of the time or a lot of times you might just have some portable tanks that you move in and out for harvest that are already equipped with a quick connect fitting.

This would just quick-connect into that tank.

In other situations, you may have a tank that’s hard-plumbed to a larger stationary chiller like what’s behind me, and you need the ability to quick-connect this unit and use it for heat. We typically would recommend plumbing a three-way ball valve similar to this. It’s got three ports on it. We put a male quick-connect on one port, the common side goes to the tank, and then your cooling would go into the top. This allows you to isolate the cooling from the main chiller, opening up this quick connect port and then quick connecting that from the chiller or, excuse me, from the heater to this three-way ball valve, now allowing the heat to go through the jacket and warm that tank and using your same controller that’s already installed on your tank.

It’s a pretty simple and clean way to do it. It saves a lot of money on external piping and additional cost when it comes to that. So the portable heater is a very functional unit.

We’ve been lucky to grow our business in a very popular wine region here in the Willamette Valley. By doing so, we’ve built many chillers up and down the Willamette Valley. And by doing so, we’ve had the opportunity to actually physically install some of these chillers. So we’ve learned a lot when it comes to the actual installation and piping and how these chillers need to be connected to the tank within the cellar to operate efficiently.

We have a team of engineers and project managers that actually have done the physical work in these wineries and are here available to answer any questions you may have. We will design your glycol plumbing from the chiller throughout the cellar free of charge with the purchase of any of our chillers. We’re happy to answer any questions you guys might have. I hope this was helpful and I was able to answer some questions for you guys.

Please don’t hesitate to give us a call. We’ve worked in the industry for almost thirty years now and installed over two thousand wineries. We’re always happy to answer any questions you may have, whether it’s installing a new chiller for a small winery startup, expanding your existing facility, or replacing equipment, we’re always there to help. Cheers.

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