Hello all,
Hopefully, some of you should follow my new sealed room thread as the build starts tomorrow! Big plans and most of the gear has been bought, just need to construct the 3m x 3m x 2.4m room side my double garage. Going to be filming the entire build and I am using the best of the best equipment. No this is not my 1st grow like someone on reddit asked! I have been growing for around 8 years now. But am stepping up from 600w LED units to 1000w LED units.
If your not sure what it is, its a all in one, AC, Air purifier, deumifier and heater.
I have gone for a water-cooled TopClimate Supreme 10000 (overkill as will do 10 x 1000w but will suit me later) which is pretty much identical to the Opticlimate water-cooled range. Opticlimate have their own Water Coolers but they are not cheap at all. They are just a copper radiator with a few fans (depending on the size) keeping the water in a closed loop instead of using 3-6 per minute from the tap! Below is a photo of the Opticlimate 4 fan version which is suitable for my TopClimate. As you can see, you are paying a lot for the brand when I can purchase air to a water heat exchanger with fans (fans turn on as the intake temp increases).
This is the Opticlimate unit which retails at £3299:
Below is what I intend on buying (£200) and adding the sheet metal and fans:
As its plain water (with Glycol) its not pressurized or anything so can easily be installed/drained and tinkered with. I will be making my own temp sensor unit that turns on the fans etc as the intake temp builds up. There are also things like a light sensor so it knows if its day or night for example. The AC unit has 25mm fittings so will use 25mm to 15mm reducer and as the garage has zero radiators installed at present, I was going to add a normal 'passive' radiator into the garage (remember, the grow room is a 100mm insulated room inside the garage. wel you shall start seeing videos tomorrow!) so that not all the water heat is wasted and then have the pipes go outside and attach to the DIY Water Cooler which I call 'active' as its got fans etc. During normal operation, the fans wiol be off but as it heats up they will start to turn on and each fan (from this make) has 3 speed settings giving loads of flexibility. Oh, there will be a pump in the system to push the water through the cooler and then back into the system like in the PDF below: https://cdn.webshopapp.com/shops/273113/files/280029511/installation-manual-english.pdf so there is a few more bits to pick up like the ball valves and gauges etc.
Dimlux who are partners with Opticlimate have their Maxicontroller which takes temp readings etc. and turns the fans on so I may pick one of them up for the time being as the controller will not know if it's a TopClimate of Opticlimate system. It also benefits as a Co2 controller and as I am using 4 x Lumatek 1000w (same size unit as the 600w) Co2 will be needed.
So, any input on creating the water cooler would be great but my intention is to purchase the unit like above, add the sheet metal, and then the fans. I think I can create the same or better than Opticlimate sells for well under £1000 as the radiator is £200, sheet metal (free) and then on one side I was going to add 4 x 20" box fans (£50 each) from the USA which are 20" x 20" like below:
www.wlzcxy.com
Cheers
Hopefully, some of you should follow my new sealed room thread as the build starts tomorrow! Big plans and most of the gear has been bought, just need to construct the 3m x 3m x 2.4m room side my double garage. Going to be filming the entire build and I am using the best of the best equipment. No this is not my 1st grow like someone on reddit asked! I have been growing for around 8 years now. But am stepping up from 600w LED units to 1000w LED units.
If your not sure what it is, its a all in one, AC, Air purifier, deumifier and heater.
I have gone for a water-cooled TopClimate Supreme 10000 (overkill as will do 10 x 1000w but will suit me later) which is pretty much identical to the Opticlimate water-cooled range. Opticlimate have their own Water Coolers but they are not cheap at all. They are just a copper radiator with a few fans (depending on the size) keeping the water in a closed loop instead of using 3-6 per minute from the tap! Below is a photo of the Opticlimate 4 fan version which is suitable for my TopClimate. As you can see, you are paying a lot for the brand when I can purchase air to a water heat exchanger with fans (fans turn on as the intake temp increases).
This is the Opticlimate unit which retails at £3299:
Below is what I intend on buying (£200) and adding the sheet metal and fans:
As its plain water (with Glycol) its not pressurized or anything so can easily be installed/drained and tinkered with. I will be making my own temp sensor unit that turns on the fans etc as the intake temp builds up. There are also things like a light sensor so it knows if its day or night for example. The AC unit has 25mm fittings so will use 25mm to 15mm reducer and as the garage has zero radiators installed at present, I was going to add a normal 'passive' radiator into the garage (remember, the grow room is a 100mm insulated room inside the garage. wel you shall start seeing videos tomorrow!) so that not all the water heat is wasted and then have the pipes go outside and attach to the DIY Water Cooler which I call 'active' as its got fans etc. During normal operation, the fans wiol be off but as it heats up they will start to turn on and each fan (from this make) has 3 speed settings giving loads of flexibility. Oh, there will be a pump in the system to push the water through the cooler and then back into the system like in the PDF below: https://cdn.webshopapp.com/shops/273113/files/280029511/installation-manual-english.pdf so there is a few more bits to pick up like the ball valves and gauges etc.
Dimlux who are partners with Opticlimate have their Maxicontroller which takes temp readings etc. and turns the fans on so I may pick one of them up for the time being as the controller will not know if it's a TopClimate of Opticlimate system. It also benefits as a Co2 controller and as I am using 4 x Lumatek 1000w (same size unit as the 600w) Co2 will be needed.
So, any input on creating the water cooler would be great but my intention is to purchase the unit like above, add the sheet metal, and then the fans. I think I can create the same or better than Opticlimate sells for well under £1000 as the radiator is £200, sheet metal (free) and then on one side I was going to add 4 x 20" box fans (£50 each) from the USA which are 20" x 20" like below:
www.wlzcxy.com
Cheers
