ttystikk
Well-Known Member
I think you need to know a lot more about HVAC tech than you do right now to be able to keep up.Well I wanted to leave it alone, but since you keep trying the same thing I guess I better explain.
A chiller doesn't make the heat vanish. It only moves the heat from the water into the air. You still need to get rid of it the heat or reuse it. Just like with a radiator. All tests I've seen with cooling have shown that putting in effort to cool the COBs more to gain efficiency costs more enrgy for the cooling. A chiller is just about the most expensive way of moving heat around. For what? 5% extra light for cooling the COBs by 25 degrees C. How about adding 5% more light to begin with and letting the COBs run at a more normal temperature?
If you have some actual numbers how much power chiller is using and that it's actually cheaper than adding 5% to the lights I'd love to hear. Based on just the marketing talk, I'm really not seeing it being more efficient.
You can name a whole list of applications where you might be able to use some excess heat, but lets be serious, you use none of those right? You'd need a load more tech to use it for any of those. Apart from heating the room and a radiator will do just fine for that.
I reuse the heat from the lights for the plants. There is very little left after using that for heating up the whole grow room to the same temperature instead of just the canopy. So no, I don't plug in a heater.
Here's the tech you've assumed I don't have, it's called a chiller with hot gas recovery. Straight up, brother; it's time to stop making assumptions and start paying attention;
I'm using the cooling plant for all of my environmental control needs. The fact that I'm doing it from behind the COB instead of removing heat from the air does not change the fact that it needs to be removed.
Using a compressor is mandatory unless you have an endless source of cold, such as a stream.
I'm tired of you trying to tell me and a bunch of professionals we're all wrong when you're ignorant of the basic principles in the field. Stop being thick and crack a textbook. THEN come back and we can discuss this.