Hey Ben,
Everything is lookin sick!! I can't wait to see the next round of pics with bud sites forming. Looking back through the thread, can you explain a little bit more about your chiller setup and modified cool coils? It looks like you have multiple levels in your operation (I mean an upstairs and a downstairs), do you work some kind of manifold or reservoir of chilled h2o to feed everything? The pics probably show it, but I can't quite put it together. I really like the cooling coils as opposed to a dedicated chiller for each system as it makes it easy to branch off for other accessories like burners. How have you modified your cch2o coils, and do you think it might be benificial to make your own with more turns to allow more surface area? I noticed in Jack's new thread he is using a 1 hp chiller per system just to cool the UC's...maybe it would be more efficient to use cooling coils and water cooled co2 to alleviate some work the a/c has to do.
Thanks man!
The
Cool Coils work great. They are very efficient.
Hydro Innovations makes them and they are made from stainless steel. All I did was have
Hydro Innovations add more material to the ends of the
Cool Coils and make a 90 degree bend at the bottom so that the ends exit out of the top of the epicenter on the
Under Current. As for putting more "turns" in the
Cool Coil, This was something I discussed with
Hydro Innovations and after some research it was determined that the amount of "turns" that they have now is more then sufficient for the amount of water being cooled.
Hydro Innovations now offers these
Cool Coils for either the 8 or 13 gallon
Under Currents. Be sure to tell them Ben Sent you...
In regards to the chiller set up, It is a
Chill King chiller that is also from
Hydro Innovations. It is their 2HP Self contained unit. What this specific unit consists of is a 2hp chiller with a 15 gallon stainless steel reservoir and a 1/2HP Flotec pump. The chiller is plumbed to a supply and return manifold with the
Cool Coils completing the loop (The blue end is the supply and the red end is the return).
Here are some pictures...
bd:pimp:
Inside of chiller
Cool Coil Installation
Hey Ben,
Great setup man! Been looking into cch2o for some time now, this thread def answers a lot of questions.
One question, what would you notice from a copper leach into your res water? I am currently using a chiller to run my H20 cooled CO2 generators (as HG23 mentioned, they are way worth the effort, especially cuz you have a huge chiller that's waiting for some more work!) and i've made a cold water return line that goes through my res to utilize the chiller to fullest extent....so now i'm wondering if a weird yellowing i'm starting to see may be due to the copper toxicity. What materials did you use for your indiv. chiller loops? is that stainless coil? aluminum coil? where did you happen to find those materials? thanks and big pat on the back for all the hard work!!! :free-character-smil
Thanks!
Sound like the copper is leaching into your reservoir. I would remove it as quickly as possible. The
Cool Coils are stainless steel and I got them from
Hydro Innovations.
bd:pimp: