First time home-bar keg owner looking for help

Great point, thanks. I'll mention to the contractor. But I think both the fridge (True) and the ice maker (Scotsman) have front air grilles for the condensers. I think only the kegerator is in the back...so that should help a bit. They are all commercial equipment. But regardless, I'll have to make sure there is some room around each of the items for some airflow. Thanks

 

So I purchased the primary/secondary regulator setup and have gotten everything hooked up and put in a tall 1/4 barrel to get it dialed in.

After one night I'm getting a pretty good pour, with a little bit bigger head than I'd like, but am tweaking a bit more to lower the pressure. The fridge all the way up through the tower is constant temp (True kegerator comes with a hose to blow cold air up through tower), so the beer is nice and cold.

The beer comes out with a big head, but once the head is gone, the beer doesn't seem very 'bubbly' like I typically see when I order a beer from a bar. Not that I'm looking for champagne beer - but need to figure that out as well. I'm continually reading those forum posts on foaming/balancing:
https://www.beeradvocate.com/community/threads/foaming.193492/
https://www.beeradvocate.com/community/threads/help-with-balancing-my-system.248243/
So I'll get it dialed in here soon enough.

A big thank you to each of you who provided input. I very truly appreciate it and am very excited with this new adventure of a home bar.

I'll post some pics once construction in basement gets more near completion and I have the taps set up where they belong.

 

Thank you - yes, I actually had to turn the pressure UP (very counter-intuitive) to hit the right carb level...and needed some patience for it to carb the beer sufficiently. The first glass is foam (as expected), but the following glasses are amazing. I'm so excited. Got a great pour with a nice lightly carbonated beer and perfect head. Unfortunately, it's a keg of miller light (on purpose, cause I knew I would dump a lot), but even still, it tastes so much better knowing it's from my own tap!

Again, thanks to all for the help - I'm very appreciative of the help.

Merry Christmas to all and to all a brew night!

 

Thanks - I moved things around and it's balanced out nicely. I'm now on 1/4 keg #3 of Miller lite - it pours perfect first glass and all.

But now I have a 2nd tall 1/4 of Bell's Two-Hearted. Looked up carb levels, set the dial, and the entire keg (we finished it last night) had first-beer foam. Same single tower setup - so the miller lite pours perfect, but the Two Hearted has first glass foam, then starts pouring perfect for any subsequent glasses. Come back for another round and first-beer foam again. No bubbles in the lines, the line is same length as the miller light and I even had the miller lite hooked to that tap, so that line appears to be balanced.

The foam is thick/creamy (we even will spoon it off to a side cup to let settle and drink it when settled vs. dumping).

I'm kind of at a loss - for the pilsner it seems to work fine, but for the ale, not so much. At this point could it be me setting pressure wrong? I've read through the foaming posts here and elsewhere. The only thing I can think of is to make the line longer - but it seems long enough for the ML, so my intuition tells me to leave it be.

Other than that - I'm super happy with the setup. I really appreciate all the help experts!