I’ll give you some advice from an old dog now if you’re new to dwc and read this.
It’s a whole lot cheaper and easier to replace a coil if you get root rot or wilt disease or something crazy then it is to replace the whole chiller. Trying to hang on to anything plastic that any kind of bad shit has touched is a bad idea all the way around for future runs you’re almost guaranteed to get it again.
With that said the coil works just as good and will have your dwc just as cold as ice. I had to learn all this the hard way it cost me 3 grows in a row a coupe years back I’ll never pipe a chiller inline again.
I took in some weak clones from my man that completely fucked them up and they got rot even with the chiller @ 68° somehow and I thought cleaning everything and doing the bleach thing was gonna take care of it lol. Within two weeks grow two in that room dropped and same with grow 3 and grow 3 had all new buckets and plumbing the only thing in common was that chiller.
Ever since then I switched to a coil and swapped buckets and lines and pumps and all that good shit again and never saw it again. I once thought the coil must be a fucking joke for how small they were and refused to use one for a long time just to find out in the end they work fantastic
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Don’t learn the hard way just use a coil instead of tainting your chiller for life.