Some pictures of the walk in cooler I built with Inkbird controllers. More to come

How thick is the foam board?

Cooler concrete pad was poured with 4" of foam underneath. Framed with 2x8's. Foil pole barn type insulation on outside of studs with 1/2" foam over that then metal siding. Cavities stuffed with r-25 unfaced batts walls and ceiling. Inside walls and ceiling covered with 2 layers of 1" foil faced foam taped and any gaps filled with expanding foam. Put 1 1/2" foam board down on floor, laid 2x4's flat for joists, filled cavities with pieces of 1" foam and covered with 1/2" Zip System sheathing and taped. Steel insulated door with 1" foil faced foam glued to inside.

Used a 14,000 btu air conditioner with 2 inkbird controllers.

This is a good video. Guy is a little light footed but good info. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UA5Myp_RGt4

There are links in the comments below the video for the inkbird units, light receptacle and light needed.

Daughter in law shot a doe on first day of PA archery season. It was 72 in cooler when I turned on unit when we hung deer up and started to skin it. Probably 15-20 minutes later when we put deer in cooler it was down to 40 already. Keeps temp steady at set 37 degrees. Very happy with it so far. Do not keep it running when there are no deer in it. Use this system instead of using only one temp control unit. Buddy only used one and AC kept freezing up and not working. With this set up compressor shuts off when fins get to 31, but fan keeps running thawing the fins out. When fin temps get to 33 compressor kicks back on if needed.

Used uni strut and bought wheeled trolley rollers to put hooks on for hanging system. Has held up to 4 deer at a time.

Lugnut if you need more pictures I can text. Or if you want to stop and see it I am about 1/2 hour west of rt 15 if that's the way yo go to your cabin.

Thanks for the pictorial wrestlecoach. I like the way you built it attached to another building. I've been considering doing the same.

What are the dimensions?

PM me your number. I'm thinking I might stop by on one of my trips to camp to take a look.

Nice job !!

Your buddy needs to adjust the fins setting on his Coolbot and that will take care of the icing issue.

Been wondering how well and how easy the Inkbird system is to set up, looks not too hard.
Thanks for posting.

The Coolbots work great but are kind of pricey, the blue tooth version allows you to monitor them via wifi and make adjustments.
Inkbirds are much cheaper and seem to work great though.

Buddy didn't use coolbot just used 1 inkbird and had icing issues. Coolbot has plans on their website for building different types of coolers. Also recommended levels of insulation and recommended sizes of AC units based on size of cooler.

2 inkbirds @ $30-35 each (they were $19 last year)
Coolbot $350-450

You can monitor the Inkbirds with wi-fi too. The basic units are about $35.00, the wi-fi units are a bit more at about $43.00. Still a lot less expensive that the Coll-bots which are about $400.00 to about $450.00 for wi-fi capable.

The guy that built one near my cabin had wi-fi capable Inkbirds.

The guy in the video was keeping his temp near freezing, I can see why it would ice up...but what about closer to 40?, still ice up?

This is a project that I really need to do. Thanks for all the info. I'm tired of quartering deer and putting them in coolers. A walk in is the correct way to do it

And great for bear season or warm days on the spring beaver line if you’re selling in the round! Been wanting to do something similar to my old milk house but the price of the coolbot and lack of time have delayed the process since I can usually make do without.

Thanks wrestlecoach! Happy trapping! ScottW

Good job

My understanding is that without the second Inkbird to shut everything down the AC will just keep running and completely ice up.

The guy that built one near my camp was having icing issues and had to play around with the temperature settings on the second Inkbird to prevent that.

Normal walk ins have several defrost cycles per day and a pan to catch the melt off the evaporator, exit tubing for the water.

I built a walk in 3-4 years ago and only run one inkbird. I wired the fan to be plugged in on its own and it runs all the time. I had to mess with the settings on the inkbird to find the sweet spot for compressor run time and down time to allow a thaw cycle. One of the best things I’ve built. I can butcher a hog anytime of the year and shoot deer no matter the temperature.

^That's the main reason I want to build one. Our early archery season is way too warm and I just don't hunt when it's too warm.

I like to hang deer 7-10 days but even during the later seasons it's hard to get the right temps to do that.

The walk-in will solve those problems.

I keep mine set at 37 and do not have any problems. That is temp my uncle had his set at in his butcher shop. Will be cutting up 2 tomorrow when done hunting. Buck has hung for 13 days and doe for 7.