/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>2792179
Not seen anyone mention it, but silica beads and activated alumina pellets are dirt cheap and 3lbs of each is enough drying capacity to make mushrooms cracker dry in less than a day, without airflow. I’ve been thinking about how to incorporate moving air so that I can start making jerky, and here’s what I’ve got so far.
A fan pulls air into a chamber full of desiccant. It moves through a tube with an inline filter to catch particulate, and passes into a sealed dog food tub (used because it has sealing gaskets on the lid). The tub has the racks for the jerky, and the exhaust just blows out of holes on the opposite end. I’m worried about developing enough pressure to move through the inline filter, so I may have a fan on the outlet pulling air as well.
The tubs are long, but kinda short, so I’m thinking of stacking them and splitting the air flowing out of the drying chamber into multiple tubs.