Anyone else own a edgestar kc2000?

Put a bucket if water in and leave it there for a day. Check the temp after that with a good calibrated thermometer. Don't open the door over and over, just leave it alone.

 

Make sure it cools, you will need a tower cooler cooler to control first pour foam and you will probably need longer lines so you can slow the flow after you properly balance the system to your beer choices. Get 8-10' of line and the tail pieces, etc. you can always cut back if the pour is too slow for you. Longer lines will guarantee foam free pours. You need to make sure you get beer line, plain old hardware store tubing will not work.

 

No negative other than waiting. You can easily trim back in 6" increments until you get a good flow rate without foaming. You will find most beers have a similar volumes of CO2 so it isn't really such a big deal running different beers in the same set up.

 

Don't over think it. Bring cold air up to the back of the shank. No fancy sleeves or running lines inside of other conduits. You can't insulate too much because there isn't any space for it and you need to have adequate room for return air. You might need to expand the hole at the top of the box depending on how close that hole diameter is to the tower diameter. I made my cooler, and from the fan box I've got a short length of PVC tubing which feeds into a 3/4" piece of copper that goes up to the shanks alongside the beer lines. At the top the copper is wired to the shanks. Most towers sweat in the warmer months because they have cold air in them and you can't insulate that well.