Best way to chillll?
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estesj
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In English please. What?
musicislfe
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water cooler? or what i do is run a fan on the side of the bucket.. the more fans the more reduction in heat. but dont fan the water, causes evaporation. i get a ten degree drop with a fan on the side.
grassified
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I saw a guy on here that just got a part of of a refrigerator and stuck it in the resevoir (with some wiring and wahtnot of course)
My idea for cooling ( which is original) was to have about 50 feet of thin copper tubing, then burying it underground. As the water passes through, the cold ground would cool the water as it came through the other end.
Another idea off subject, for cooling HID lights is to use your pool water to cool yur res, works pretty good (according to my own speculation)
sancho
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Im not sure if its the cheapest way but If your using a chiller then just use chill coils, there copper coils that sit in your res and you can daisy chain as many as you want as long as the water your pumping tru them is cold enuff. Hydro inovations sells them and can help with the chiller/pump size.
I tried the fridge thing and it never kept my rez cool enough. It ran all the time and eventually the compressor quit. After wasting 2 weeks of my time I broke down and bought a chiller. I found one on craigslist. Someone was selling a complete aqaurium with chiller for $200, problem solved. I didnt realize it at the time but I have since used almost everyting else that came with the aqaurium (minus the filters) Best $200 I have spent. I dont know what kind of system you have but if you have an inline pump you can put a fan directly on it. I found that was where alot of my heat was coming from. It was not a drastic improvement but it lowered my rez temps 2 or 3 degrees.
fatman7574
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The cheapestway is eveaporativecoolin, but then you will hae to add norewater daily then when not using this method. It simply requires afna drwing air across the sy urface of the water. This removes moist air. The moisture holds thermal enery. This can ypically lower the temperature from 10 to 15 degrees. The sipple way to handle it is to connect all the reservoirs together with a two pipe system and then hook them to a forth reservoir. use a pump to keep the water moiving through out the system. On the forth reservoir provide as large a surface area as possible that is open to the air and draw air across the surface with a fan. This will however add warm moist air to what ever room the fourth reservoir is located. The pump allows the reservoir be anywhere as long as it is at the same level as the other reservoirs. Use uniseals to join the reservoirs together. http://www.aquaticeco.com/subcategories/1617/Uniseals/uniseals/0 A lot cheaper cooling system than a chiller both in initial purchase costs and in operating costs. However you do have that humidity increase in what ever room the fourth reservoir is located. Of course the indoor chillers just dump all the heat into what ever room you put them.