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Bobby Smith
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Hmmmmmm...........
Well, I really hope you're wrong about it having to run all the time but I have ZERO experience with chillers so I guess time will tell.
During lights out when room temps are at 70, we can agree that it won't have too much trouble bringing that size reservoir down two degrees, right? So that's 12 hours I don't have to worry about.
Also, lights on temps are gonna be 80F at 7' high at the top of the structure, which means they're gonna be about 76/77F down on the floor where the reservoir is.
I think this chiller should be able to bring down the rez 10F pretty easily, but again, we'll see.
And as far as the cool coil idea, here's my thinking:
Not going to run R/O because I'm not trying to waste that much water weekly and because my tap water is actually pretty good.
So the only thing running off of the hose in the garage will be my CO2 generator/hot water heater/whatever you wanna call it.
I'm thinking that I could setup the water lines so that the water which would feed the generator would first run through a cool coil in my main res (hose->cool coil->CO2) - this water will be coming out between 55-60F (best guess) during the wintertime, so I think there's some significant cooling available there.
Also, giving it more thought lately and only time will tell, but I'm hoping to get this system producing to the point where I don't have to run it during summer, when the portable AC and chiller(s) would be struggling to keep up - should be able to get 5-6 pounds per harvest, and at three harvests a year, that's plenty for me and would allow me to take the summer off and not look at any $1K electric bills.
I think the 1/8HP isnt going to be big enough. Could be wrong, but I would err on the up side.
It's going to be running all the time. Not sure how you are going to divert cold tap thru it first, but make sure the chiller never 'runs dry' as it will freeze the coil.
Well, I really hope you're wrong about it having to run all the time but I have ZERO experience with chillers so I guess time will tell.
During lights out when room temps are at 70, we can agree that it won't have too much trouble bringing that size reservoir down two degrees, right? So that's 12 hours I don't have to worry about.
Also, lights on temps are gonna be 80F at 7' high at the top of the structure, which means they're gonna be about 76/77F down on the floor where the reservoir is.
I think this chiller should be able to bring down the rez 10F pretty easily, but again, we'll see.
And as far as the cool coil idea, here's my thinking:
Not going to run R/O because I'm not trying to waste that much water weekly and because my tap water is actually pretty good.
So the only thing running off of the hose in the garage will be my CO2 generator/hot water heater/whatever you wanna call it.
I'm thinking that I could setup the water lines so that the water which would feed the generator would first run through a cool coil in my main res (hose->cool coil->CO2) - this water will be coming out between 55-60F (best guess) during the wintertime, so I think there's some significant cooling available there.
Also, giving it more thought lately and only time will tell, but I'm hoping to get this system producing to the point where I don't have to run it during summer, when the portable AC and chiller(s) would be struggling to keep up - should be able to get 5-6 pounds per harvest, and at three harvests a year, that's plenty for me and would allow me to take the summer off and not look at any $1K electric bills.