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Seedling Heat Mat I use something similar, its a basic seedling heat mat that I tape around the fermenting bucket, connected to a Johnson Control thermostat control and thermowell. Keeps the ferment temp exactly where I want it.

I stumbled on this information from Tim Vandergrift, Technical Services Manager for Winexpert. It pretty much answers this thread's question in full.

I'm fairly new to winemaking, but a long time brewer. For my past two wine kits I used charcoal filtered tap water. However, my water company uses Chloromine as a disinfectant, so if possible I'd like to avoid it on my next batch. In brewing it's common to treat tap water by charcoal filter...

Thank so much for the rack and jig plans. I just finished building mine. Its scaled down a bit to fit my space, but still managed to get 96 bottles in there. Love it!! :D

I can also highly recommend. We're enjoying one I made last 5/2013.