Desperately need a chiller for a 40 gallon.

[Altpers0na-old]

the peltiers are one side hot one side cold, and a couple wires...

apply volts, one side gets hot the other cold, add a heat sink and fan to the hot side and the cold side gets colder.

i would test it on a less important tank to get an idea of how much voltage/current you need to do how much cooling...

 

[LtPiper]

I made it that far.... how do you get the cold into the tank?

 

[Brock Fluharty]

There are no lights, heaters (duh, lol) pumps, etc. in the hospital tank, and even with a fan, it only lowered around 5*F. The tank is 10 gallons, and has a very large, very powerful fan blowing over it. This is gonna KILL me, but tonight i'm gonna leave my window open nearest the tank. It's been very cold up here lately...it was a little hotter yesterday. Just got back from seeing "Employee of the Month". Not worth the $8.00 IMO. Jessica is not a very good actress...

The water level is a little low, so maybe if I add some, it will get blown over more, and get to a lower temp.

We'll see...

Brock

 

[Altpers0na-old]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8292061#post8292061 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Brock Fluharty
Jessica is not a very good actress...

boy you said a mouth full...

you can get the cold into the tank by placing the cold side incontact with the tank, or as i would do it, make a cooling loop out of some hose and waterbottle with salt water in it, dip the middle of the hose in the tank and attach the cooler to the bottle... fill it all up nice and full...

 

[essop3]

Search for the thread about Jasons cooling tower. I wouldn't recomend most things he does, but that was a good one.

 

[Brock Fluharty]

Can it be bouth/built without a sump, refuge, filter, and $40.00?

 

[Brock Fluharty]

Problem resolved! Thank you all so much for responding so quickly, and in this quantity, lol.

 

[phljess]

How did you resolve the problem?

 

[Brock Fluharty]

A fellow seahorse keeper has oh so graciously offered my his old drop in chiller.

 

[phljess]

That was really nice of him.

 

[Altpers0na-old]

o ya, i retract my suggestion of minifridge... seems it wouldnt work...

 

[Brock Fluharty]

Yeah, he's really cool about that kind of stuff. He's a real friend.

 

[fishmon]

I have heard a dehumidifier modified with a controller works awesome also

 

[firefish2020]

How does that work Jim?

 

[fishmon]

I'll get the plans for you, one of my customers built it, they had to get a controller for it because it dropped their 75 gallon to 60ish degrees

 

[apapas]

please post those direction when you get them jim

 

[firefish2020]

Thanks Jim, sounds like something to play around with

 

[fishmon]

http://www.guarriello.net/aquarium.htm Check out the DIY page on this guys site.
This is the same thing my customer did with his, the controller is to turn the circulating pump on and off as needed.
Very cool idea!!! if you have one or find a used one you could build a chiller for under $100 bucks.