Hi Squirrel,

Burr!
Now that looks like it will keep temps down in a big res.

Yea I know what you mean, I destroy half the things I try to improve.
Hey, is that water going through copper coils? I hear thats not good.

Great post man.

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Vinyl tubing. Not the best for heat transfer, but I don't need that much transfer. There's probably 30ft of tubing inside the cooler for the flower, and 30ft for the veg side. With room temps of 80f the water was at 75f with no chiller, now it is at 66f constantly. This just happened to be the coldest setting the A/C thermometer goes down to with it stuck into the reservoir.

Great info and thanks for the pic's

These are great, guys... I'm in desperate need of an economical chiller, and I'll definitely be giving this a shot.

Does the case need to be removed to use the chiller plate, or did you just do that to fit in your cabinet?

With the A/C unit, what is used as the thermostat? Does it just work like the fridge, where you put in on a setting and adjust it yourself, or do you have a temperature switch for the water?

C2C

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Nice work pretty cool dude

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very carefully and took out the componants... pluged it in and it no longer works. I have run down all the electric and cant find a problem...but it no longer fires up when you turn on the thermostat.

any help?

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Ok so I bypassed the thermostat and now it works great - loud as hell though! Guess I am gonna hafta find a replacement thermostat...

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another loser thats mad he got banned, rofl. Nice pic though

I don't get it, when I did it the thermostat was attached and didn't see how I could bypass it. The other thing is you mentioned it make a lot of racket... I wonder what that is. Is it vibration from the compressor?
I did leave the mount attached.

One thing I can add at this point, after using it for a couple months in a six gallon res I found it is pretty powerful for that size and with the thermostat at one I get the water about 15 to 20 degrees cooler.

So that means when ambient temps hit 80's I need to shut it off.
If you find a way to attach a more accurate thermostat please post it here.

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