DIY= Do It Yourself Water Chiller that Works!

Use a sealed cooler as ur res and lose another 10 degrees, you are cooling with no insulation( and less electricity) . So why dont u just air condition the whole god damn neighbourhood. Sweet setup man nao on a previous note. Defs run this shit outside ur cab amd set up a sick aeroponic vertical grow and hit 2g/watt/2months


Also check out temp relays to set it at 65 they are like 30 bucks at hardware plcs
 
talktuumee said:
Cruzer 101 you are much kind with your wisdom.. I realize this is an old post, but water chillers havent went down much if any over here in the land of the big 3 (almost( and legal mmmp cards with doctors approval. Anyways I luv your mini fridge idea/invention with the freezer plate in the nute tank, I just wanted to ask you what size fridge that was and name brand.. I just dont want to buy anyone, what Im getting at is the one you used in your picture is white coated I guess? but its not metal, and for me thats good cuz I wouldnt want to put any exposed metal in my tank... and I'd like to know size to base off the tank you used to the fridge you used to compare with what Im planning on using.. One last thought.. What do you think of have disconnecting the cooling tray at either the closet point to the back wall or even see if you could cut it off from the condensor and pull it through the fridge back wall then take/break cooling tray off, with connections and thermostat still intact, and leave fridge totally intact and reroute tray from outside part of condesor basically instead of traveling inside the fridge you would reroute to rez even by longer cooling tray tubing/connection themostat as well but thats just wire or rewire (2) I believe but Im no expert but I will ask these questions to my heating/cooling/refridgerant guy )) first thing tomorrow I cant wait.. and you have a blessed one.. wisdom is a gift always best shared then hidden.. hope to hear back.. I invent a lil bit myself ))
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Well, It's a sealed system. I was afraid if I cut the tubing I wouldn't be able to seal it and charge it again. Same goes for a leak so I tried not to bend it too much.
As far as the brand of refer, I didn't pay attention so I couldn't tell ya. What I can tell you is if I was gonna do it again I would look for an older refer with coils on the back instead of running through the whole box. It was one of those small 1 cu ft deals. Thanks for the complement.

weedsmith said:
Nice job if i may say so! I am a heating and cooling contractor, need a job
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Now here is the guy who can tell you if its possible to cut the tubing.

mikadodarkside said:
Use a sealed cooler as ur res and lose another 10 degrees, you are cooling with no insulation( and less electricity) . So why dont u just air condition the whole god damn neighbourhood. Sweet setup man nao on a previous note. Defs run this shit outside ur cab amd set up a sick aeroponic vertical grow and hit 2g/watt/2months Also check out temp relays to set it at 65 they are like 30 bucks at hardware plcs
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Ya think? Doing it this way, keeping the thermostat intact, with the tray in the res and a small water pump circulating the water I keep it on the lowest setting. If I don't it gets too cold. So I don't think I am using that much electricity. With the thermostat controlling the temp why would I need this relay?

BendBrewer said:
I think this is a really good idea. Makes me think though. Why not have a res that fit inside the fridge?
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That would be too easy. LOL No, I've seen it done that way. Also just running hose into a small fridge coil it up and back out again.
Honestly I dont remember why I didn't do that, I think it was I couldn't see where the coils were and if I drilled a hole in the side I might hit the coils. besides, the fridge didn't fit into my cab and I wanted it stealth.
 
FUCK, what a trip. just ran into this post and you did everything i tried to do. i bought a mini fridge a while back thinking i could figure out a way to make it work, eventually i realized that the only thing left was to pull out the compressor, ice tray, etc..planning on eventually dropping the ice tray in the rez i decided it was too much work and backed off. Ive worked the burn unit a few times before and seeing Meth heads, and so forth that resembled Harvey Dent, made me paranoid as fuck. i wouldn't recommend this unless you know what your doing. I would rather be shot it the balls twice by a 38. than to get Freddy Kruegered, that being said awesome work, your outcome is exactly what I had hoped my outcome would be.
 
The relay is a thermostat, u should be able to set it so ur water is always 62-67 degrees. If ur chiller makes ur water too cold then do u only have a uper temp that turns ur system on? U need a lower temp threshold that turns it off seeing as disolved oxygen delpeats from both sides of 65 degrees. Those home hardware thermostats have both logic functions.

I think bendbrewer ment using the fridge as a res, not running hoses through a fridge.
 
Oh, I see what you mean. Yeah, the thermostat that came with the fridge I ran to the res also, it turns it on when it gets warm and off when it cools.
It has settings of like 1 to 5 with 5 being the coldest. What I meant was if I set it above 1 and ambient temps are like 85° the res will cool lower then 68°

So I leave it at one and don't run it unless temps are up there. cause with ambient temps of like 80° the water is 75 then with air and pump I lower it to about 70°
 
jrinlv said:
So how are you planning to keep your rez at the holy grail 69 degrees? I just bought a chiller for 140 bucks new and you can set the temp to whatever you need. I looked into a lot of DIY setups but for 140 I can swing that. Good post

OH are you going to keep the compressor in the grow room? Good luck JR
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Where did u getur chilled for 140 i really need one
 
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