Chiller in garage?

I think we have ourselves a situation..

It's finally getting hot over here! I'm currently in the process of setting up my frag tank in the garage. I have a "Current 1/3HP" chiller which I connected today. it seems to work good, provided the ambient temp is below 90 degrees. Peak temps here in the summer can reach 115 degrees for a few days, but usually in the high 90's, which means the garage is going to be alot hotter than that. I already have plans to install a gable fan to keep the garage hopefully at least the same as the outside temp. I understand mostly how the chillers work, and why they cant work at higher temps, but what are my options in this situation? even if I stepped up to a 1hp chiller or 1 1/2 hp, wouldn't those also not work in a hot garage with those temps?

I know some people run their equipment to the garage such as sumps, etc.. not sure if that included chillers? I'm guessing if it did, they live in an area where it doesn't get too hot in the first place and the only reason they run a chiller is to cool down the tank from lighting and pumps so that's why it would work in the garage for them..

I also thought about doing the reverse and running the chiller inside where the house is kept at 72, but would rather not pump heat from my tank into the house.. seems kinda counter productive as far as cooling the house.

Suggestions?

 

i keep my sump and chiller in the garage. in the summer, i just open the garage door and keep air circulating in the garage. yes it does make the unit run a little harder, but for me, keeping the noise and heat out of the house is worth it.

 

I would like to avoid keeping the garage open, but even if I did and It were 110 outside, that would be over the limit for the chiller to be effective anyways...


I really hope that the gable fan installed in the garage will at least keep the garage equal to outside temp since its pulling in air from the sides of the garage and blowing it out the top front. If so, that will solve the problem of keeping the door open.


Maybe, just maybe, I could install a louver (sp?) above the garage door to the house, and run flexible ducting to the chiller so that the air that it sucks in would be 72 degree air from inside the house, thus supplying a steady stream of cool air to the chiller? then, the chiller would expel the hot air out the back, into the garage, which would then be sucked outside by the gable fan? It seems to me that this would work? that would be my last resort however...

 

Tough sitiation. my sife is home 90% of the time, and we live in a rural area, so leaving hte door cracked is easy for me. I also put a barrel fan in the door to bring in alot of air. My garage is insulated, so I can install and AC unit if I wish.

 

We are insulating our garage door this weekend. There's even kits to make it easy. It reduces the temp inside the garage ALOT. I have my coldwater tank in there which us set at 60.


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Yep, I had already planned on doing that, but for a different reason.. during the winter when its below freezing there is a kennel on one side of the garage for the dogs to sleep in over night. guess I now have two reasons to do it.