You must have not read the thread. The freezer I was using for a chiller died less than 24 hours after I set it up. I bought a chiller. It is chilling my 100 gallon system to 65 degrees. I have another room with the same set up that isn't quite as problematic as the one that needs the chilling. I will be consolidating both rooms into one reservoir with a 55 gallon auto-top off system. As soon as my other room finishes (I start trimming tonight) I will insulate the totes in that room, and re-pipe the whole system so both rooms use the same reservoir, which will be hooked up to my chiller.Originally Posted by oceangreen
Problem solved.
Last edited by GreenThumbSucker; 07-13-2012 at 03:40 PM.
Has anyone tried a used watercooler (the bottle type) and used it to recirc water through the chilling res. in the cooler back to system res.? you could even make it an indirect system by using a closed loop to system res. using copper coil running the chilled water through it. The issue I have is the heat from the cooler would still be in room!!!
i dont really understand your idea but youndo not want to use copper. stainless steel only.
Wort chillers are usually copper which is epically bad for corroding and making ur nutrients toxic... use stainless steel or aluminum ONLY or ur plants will die ... (hint brass has copper in it too )wahh ithought we where doing some real DIy work over here....... i would dismantle assembly build exhaust box for the evap coils and heat pump and bend the cooling/condensing coils in into a large insulate cooler or waterproof box. add pump and pipe(personally i would try to pressurize around 10-25 psi) and hook up a wort chiller, a transmission radiator in a ducting setup, all types of things lol. i have yet to get my hands on afre freezer, bu when i do....
stainless only, not aluminum. the nutes will corrode it.
Am I missing something, or are you really using a 27 gallon tote for each plant?
Nope, you haven't missed anything, the mention of single plants in 27gal tough totes is in the first sentence of the post and there are even pictures a couple posts later.
Yep, one plant per tote. I veg them under T5 lights in five gallon buckets with netpot lids, then transfer them to 27 gallon totes my perpetual flowering rooms.
Why not leave them in 5 gallon buckets? It seems like it would be easier to cool that way.
larger res is easier to cool, maintain ph stability and ppm levels stay consistant without having to add back constantly. in hydro the bigger the better on res size and a lot less work.
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