Hey chunky, I think you are confusing SS with a different poster in this topic. there was someone else here who went with round pipes. but it wasn't SS.
Hey SS.
A couple questions i wanted to bounce off of you.
First i was thinking up some rez chiller ideas.
i know you guys use the wort chillers.
So, if i put a wort chiller in the rez, and then had a water cooling rez.
I was thinking i could put a "thermostat/temp controller" in the plant rez, and have it plugged into the pump that pumps water though the wort chiller. so that it would only pump water when the water got warm. and then shut off when the water reached the correct temp. this was the idea i had in my head to control rez temp.
But i cant really find any good "thermostats/temp controllers". i know that the seedling heating mat controllers which are basicly a temp probe, with a thermostat, are decently cheap. around $45-$50. but i cant find anything similar to control cooling, and control a water pump.
Am i going about this the wrong way? let me know what you think.
also, Since you guys are using the mini-gen co2 generator.
I know it comes with a water cooling option, and i had another idea.
What do you think about attaching a "ice box" to the co2 generator, but sticking it on the cold side of a light hood reflector.
so that the ice box works as a heat sink. cooling the ice box, and expelling the heat into the hood, and sucking it away, and out of the room.
I know it would have to be done right, so that you dont suck the co2 out of the room.
but if you had the intake come from another room. pass though the ice box to get rid of the residual heat, and then go though the reflector.
on the water cooling side, you could have the minigen go to the ice box, to expel some of the heat, and then into the water cool reservoir with some frozen 3-liter bottles.
So my question is, would a icebox help take the load off the water cool reservoir, by acting like a heat sink,and expelling some of the heat?