Worm keeper conversion.

[Paul B]

I converted my DIY, evaporating chiller, that was already converted from a bio ball chamber to a worm bacteria grower to increase the bacteria in my worm keeper so I can keep many more blackworms. The acrylic thing at the top with the water flowing over plates is the old chiller that is not needed any more since I installed LED lights. It allows for more bacteria to grow to keep the worms fresh and also as a side benefit, cools them. I love re cycling.



This is the original home made chiller.

 

[Dmorty217]

You my friend are a outside of the box type guy!

 

[Paul B]

I don't much like boxes.

 

[m0nkie]

wow interesting chiller! have you measured it's effectiveness? drops in temperature? noise level? thanks!

 

[Paul B]

It is to small for my 100 gallon reef but even there it driops the temp by about 3 degrees. If I needed more cooling I could easily have made a larger one but this was reconfigured from a bio ball chamber. Now it is part of a worm keeper and it also chills them.
It makes no noise as it has a small fan on top for evaporation that I did not use in this worm configuration.

 

[ca1ore]

wow interesting chiller! have you measured it's effectiveness? drops in temperature? noise level? thanks!

Evaporative chillers (as opposed to the more common refrigerant chillers) work very well as long as they are in a low ambient humidity environment. Commercial units are used in places like Phoenix to very good effect. I tried a DiY unit many years ago, but NJ isn't a low humidity place

 

[Paul B]

Evaporative chillers are used on almost every building in Manhattan and work well no matter where they are used. But as you said, drier is much better.
The benefit is they are fairly easy to build and use almost no power.