Heat during summer

I also got a shock today when my tank hit 86 !!!

I already started freezing some small bottles of water to toss in the back of the cube
just gonna do a rotating cycle with the bottles
till my dad gets the swamp cooler running again in the house that thing will get the place cool!
but yeah it is definitely getting to be summer weather been in the 90-100 range past like week or so

 

6, two liter bottles of coke zero frozen.... I throw one or two in the sump in the morning, and make sure a fan is on it. Works out well especially when it was 104 here in morgan hill the other day. I did get to 85 degrees that day, however when it was 92 about 35 minutes before... it was good

It'll keep working till I can afford a real chiller...

 

I'm in new York, dealing with the same problem. I grabbed the azoo quad fan set up and dropped it on the top of the tank. I brought me down sometimes 4 degrees. But the evaporation and humidity is horrible now! A chilled is out of my range right now. *price, added heat, plumbing, electricity, noise.

A chiller really is something you have to commit to.

 

The fans work really well for me (I have AC though). But the evap is pretty bad. I guess if I did the chiller it would be out in the garage, but hopefully I won't need to. They are pretty expensive.

 

If you have been following my cooling issues and helping a "friend", I don't want to repeat myself but....

With the mini frige idea, you'd want to keep the door shut and not put stuff in there that you'd be opening the door for. I used a 5 gallon bucket and coiled 50' of tubing in it and was going to submerse the tubing... I drilled a hole in the top for the in and outlets and popped some kinda Condensor... so if you d that idea, drill the door, not the top. Then again, the theory of a refrigerator is to maintain a temp and not be constantly introduces water that is warm. Your frige might stay running and heat your house even more trying to drop your tank a degree or two.

I've tried to frozen jug and it didn't help a bit.

I live in Florida and it's been pretty hot lately...
I can tell you what I just noticed!!!!!!!

I had my tank at 84-86 degrees lately. I went to Walmart and bought one of those $14 black fans that are 8" and mountable, I plugged it in the back of the tank blowing across the bulbs and water... I woke up and my tank was 77! Now I might have to invest in a heater to put at 77-78 just to make sure I don't go too low.
I haven't ran my AC this month because of trying to cut back on spending (except for my new coral purchase.. lol) But the house is 84 and the tank is 77.

If you try it and it don't work, 100 gallons is alot of humidity but AC units are designed to remove humidity from the air, that's what makes you feel cooler... like when you walk into the room and the sweat evaporates form your head... A/C!

The fan is hella cheaper, your next route is the wall shaker for $100... if you can't afford $400 for a used chiller.

 

I also use a cheap computer fan to blow down on the water that keeps the tank around 80 even though my house is 82. As you can imagine we have a lot of cooling issues in Phoenix and a simple computer fan is enough to keep my tank cool. The fan in a way acts just like an evap cooler. But as others have warned your water evap will double or even triple.

 

You will find fans work wonders, but as Otty pointed out you will have to top off the tank more often and you will find it more humid in the house.

 

Hello guys,

i live in Rio de Janeiro, and here the heat in summer is not kidding!!!


8 fans with 12x12cm to maintain the temp between 27Cº and 27,50Cº and a 1HP chiller to prevent that this temp pass 27,50Cº


I think that the stability is the key for a good reef, so, if i were you, i put a chiller there!!


Hug

 

I was thinking about having some copper tube gold plated on the inside, run into a 5g bucket full of clay mud (bentonite) like they use in geothermal wells. I'd go through the side or back of the fridge.

The real issue is not excess heat - you'd dissipate that with a chiller as well, the real issue is that after the time and costs associated with building it, I'd be about the same cost as a decent chiller.

I've seen some fridges with better compressors than cheap chillers, so electrical efficiency isn't an issue.

Space is an issue. Purpose specific chillers have a smaller footprint.

...opening the door to take out a beer wouldn't hurt anything. As long as you have a large enough thermal mass in the fridge 12oz of liquid won't affect much.

 

We broke 108 yesterday here in El Centro CA...tank was at 81, so not to bad...although we have the A/C set @ 79...I still have the heater plugged in too, but I was thinking about unplugging it as summer draws nearer, so for the meantime, I just dropped it.