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Here's my .5hp window shaker converted to a proper chiller. Used it for 18 months as a submerged coil chiller. Coil started to desintagrate. Total cost under 200.
Please, give us the details!!
Here's my .5hp window shaker converted to a proper chiller. Used it for 18 months as a submerged coil chiller. Coil started to desintagrate. Total cost under 200.
Let say i have a 5ton water cool unit. A bin with 100 gallon of water. 2hp water chiller to keep the water cool. Is it possible that it works? I been using the water cool unit with a pool but for future knowledge would like to know if 2hp water chiller with a 100gallon bin be able to keep up.
Please, give us the details!!
Yes it will, I run a 2 hp chiller with a 75 gallon res. supplemented with a water cooled CO2 generator and 4000w. I run daytime temps at 84-85 (CO2 temps are higher than normal) and night time temps at 74-75, this diff gives me great purple colors on the ones that do have purple genes in em. The only issue is you need a large dehumidifier to keep up with all the extra humidity.
I have my system hooked up so that the heat from the bulbs is extracted thru sealed hoods ( 8"XXXL) and exhausted immediately outside. One 8" cool box with a 6" vortex blowing across it keeps the girls real happy day and night. In the veg I have a 4" eco fan hooked to 6" cool box that basicaly runs all the time to keep to 2 -8 tube t5's cool ( 800 watts total). I use one more ice box and fan outside in my tents to knock any extra heat out and it rarely runs only when the 4000w kicks in at night.
Good luck, Peace
Yes it will, I run a 2 hp chiller with a 75 gallon res. supplemented with a water cooled CO2 generator and 4000w. I run daytime temps at 84-85 (CO2 temps are higher than normal) and night time temps at 74-75, this diff gives me great purple colors on the ones that do have purple genes in em. The only issue is you need a large dehumidifier to keep up with all the extra humidity.
I have my system hooked up so that the heat from the bulbs is extracted thru sealed hoods ( 8"XXXL) and exhausted immediately outside. One 8" cool box with a 6" vortex blowing across it keeps the girls real happy day and night. In the veg I have a 4" eco fan hooked to 6" cool box that basicaly runs all the time to keep to 2 -8 tube t5's cool ( 800 watts total). I use one more ice box and fan outside in my tents to knock any extra heat out and it rarely runs only when the 4000w kicks in at night.
Good luck, Peace
Alright, a water cooled thread! Here's my wacky contraption: 4 Fresca's on a SunCircle...
https://www.icmag.com/ic/picture.php?albumid=31337&pictureid=716666
That's quite a piece of work there! what are you cooling your setup with?
I like it! Are those 400 or 600s in there?
Your fresca Sols look new. Make sure to keep you water ph'd around 8 otherwise the powdercoat flakes off in the water chamber.
How well does the radiator work? Cool climate?
I used to run sun twists but was entirely too lazy to aircool them.they were my biggest producers of anything I did. Water cooling makes all the sense in the world. Great setup!
I would listen to watercooled@. He has proven in this thread that he knows what it takes to water cool an 8kw room. Even though I believe he runs in a pretty damn hot & muggy part of the country. If your temps exceed 90f, you need a 4hp chiller with the best of aircooled hoods. again, like watercooled's 12kw setup.. If he ran tubes over that area, he could of dropped 1 full horsepower, and relied more on air cooling to be more efficient.
which brings me to my next issue. I can cool 10kw with a few 90w inline fans, a small 10k btu AC, and a heat evac fan in my crawl (which I use for my corona discharge in my attic anyway.. It would take me about $1000-1200 to set up. a chiller, ice boxes pump blah blah blah is going to cost $5000+, and my power bill would be a bit higher. does the cost justify the means? will the chiller last long enough to pay for itself? when it breaks, I pay the shipping roll the dice and hope they don't claim it's user error... home depot will return that AC in a heartbeat, and most fans have a 5-20 year no bs warranty.. If I had to hide a heat signature, oro run a lot of lights in a CEA sealed environment where I couldn't risk a FLIR signature and grew for big bucks in a no tolerance state it would really help me sleep better at night..
^ I don't have the answer with proof, but I still have an opinion and here it is...
If I had access to cold water I would certainly use a liquid cooled air handler...
If I had access to cold air, I would certainly use a liquid cooled air handler and use a cooling tower with no chiller to drop the temperatures.
I would not use frescas on anything close to the size you are talking about.
If you decided to have a chiller as a backup in summer months and a cooling tower for the cooler months, that would make more sense.
I look forward seeing a thread on the setup.