On saturday I spent about 7 hours making holes in my house, and running wires and cables for the system. Tons of work to be done. There was an electrical outlet/switch next to the sink that would have been covered up by the tower. This needed to be moved about a foot up so you could still turn the sink light on.
The icemaker (remote coldplate) is pretty big. Big enough that it will not fit under the sink because of the sink piping and the garbage disposal. Boo. This means the only place it would fit is in the cabinet over the fridge. That means the tubing for it needs to run through the wall, and then out the side next to the sink.
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| Unwrapped the components |
Here, you can see the tower, assorted bits, the carbonator, and the syrup pumps. All in all, it's a pretty nice setup. No complaints.
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| The chiller/coldplate |
The chiller/coldplate is "interesting". It's basically a hacked-up icemaker, with a coldplate jammed into it. It has a mess of tubes coming out of it. Everything was clearly labeled though, so no worries there.
This outlet is the badguy in question. He needs to be moved about 1 foot up, so the tower doesn't obstruct it.
And here, we can see said outlet, moved vertically. Annoyingly, there was a stud there, which apparently they notched to fit the one below it. 1 hour later with saws, drills, and chisels, the stud was notched.
This is the cabinet above the fridge. It's here that the coldplate will live.
The remote coldplate needs power. So does the carbonator, that will also live up here. Since I already have an outlet torn open on the side, I ran wires down to it, and wired this outlet into that one. In the lower left corner, you can see a big hole drilled. This is to run the syrup and soda water lines from the coldplate into the tower. They will run inside the wall, and come out where the old outlet was.
Needed to run the RO tubing out of the RO, and into the wall. This meant I had to drill through the side of the cabinet, and then into the wall. Once into the wall, it followed the same path as the soda tubing, up into the cabinet.
In the pantry, next to the fridge, I will house the CO2 canister, the syrup boxes, and the pumps. Simply mounted the pump onto the wall. It's very nice that they supplied a little mounting bracket and everything for it. I'm pretty happy with it. 3 screws, and done.
This is where the syrup boxes will live, and eventually, the CO2 tank.
Coldplate test-fitted up into the cabinet.
Needed to drill a hole into the cabinet from the pantry for the syrup lines. Done.
The original outlet, all torn up. There are two separate circuits here. How annoying.