Help need to find financing
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russ49merc
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bromion
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The DIY chillers made from mini-refrigerators are not really worth the cost and effort. A refrigerator is not designed to cool a continuously heated stream. It will end up running up electric bills and killing the refrigerator compressor pretty fast. An ice bucket will work, of course, but you have to keep refilling the ice : )
I suggest fan on fuge and fans across the display. Works great for me.
I suggest fan on fuge and fans across the display. Works great for me.
I have a 120G and thought that fans were a stupid idea. The next day my dad installs a 5" computer fan on the side of my canopy, and it lowered my tank temp by 6-7 degrees! It works great; w/o a heater the tank stays at 78 and w/ the light and fans on the highest it gets is 79. Find a way to get fans blowing across the water surface. It worked wonders for me.
migston
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My ghetto chiller is simply a desk fan on the floor next to my open stand door. It's pointed up towards the top of my stand so the air bounces off and agitates the surface of my sump and fuge.
Nothing to buy (unless you have no fans), nothing to fabricate and it works. My tank only gets as high as 83 even in this 100 degree weather.
It's not pretty but it was basically free and will work during the summer months.
Nothing to buy (unless you have no fans), nothing to fabricate and it works. My tank only gets as high as 83 even in this 100 degree weather.
It's not pretty but it was basically free and will work during the summer months.
Captain Quirk
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I'll also chime in with a statement about the effectiveness of cooling fans. Get enough air across the surface of the water and you can really knock down the temperature. I have hood fans now, but they aren't pointed exactly right (been re-engineering things a bit of late). I'm gonna build a mount and put a couple right over my sump. Done it before and it worked great; I'll double it this time and I expect even better performance (even get rid of the hood fans? Who knows?).
FWIW
FWIW
russ49merc
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look look
look look
ok here is what i did I paypal buyer credit and picked up this
chiller
and then I did research on this chiller and found out the thermostats go out on them and have problems with them so I got this with it
dual stage controller
so it came oout to 443.00 so hopefully they will get shipped and be here soon. what do ya think?
look look
ok here is what i did I paypal buyer credit and picked up this
chiller
and then I did research on this chiller and found out the thermostats go out on them and have problems with them so I got this with it
dual stage controller
so it came oout to 443.00 so hopefully they will get shipped and be here soon. what do ya think?
russ49merc
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well too late now
Captain Quirk
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Bummer. I've got one of those controllers that I posted for sale here. I was asking 100...
And the AC JR is 200 bucks. Not sure I'd say that was "close" to 120, but I also get your drift...
Seriously, if money was that much of an issue, I'd have gone the fan route. Again, fans can REALLY help for temperature issues....
*shrug*
And the AC JR is 200 bucks. Not sure I'd say that was "close" to 120, but I also get your drift...
Seriously, if money was that much of an issue, I'd have gone the fan route. Again, fans can REALLY help for temperature issues....
*shrug*
russ49merc
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i have 2 4 3/4 fans in canopy and one 7" fan blowing on the sump so this is why I'm going with a chiller
BONDQ
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I'm sure that some of you have seen this before. A "Bong-Cooler".
I know, don't laugh because it works.
Seems like a great way to get rid of the heat if you have a small to medium amount of water to cool and don't mind doing frequent top-offs.
Of course a chiller would be more ideal, though it isn't going to save you any money on your power bill.
Bong Cooler
I know, don't laugh because it works.
Seems like a great way to get rid of the heat if you have a small to medium amount of water to cool and don't mind doing frequent top-offs.
Of course a chiller would be more ideal, though it isn't going to save you any money on your power bill.
Bong Cooler
russ49merc
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yeah I have seen that thanks for putting the link up great idea
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