Inexpensive Chiller Recommendations

[jamie]

couldnt find a fan anywhere in daly ctiy. so i had to DIY a computer case fan till the one i ordered gets here. brought the temp down to 79.. going to rig up another one

 

[JVU]

Doc Ock would be proud

 

[powdertang05]

Wort chillers work well if you are looking for a instance solution. Fans work otherwise.


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[rygh]

Reminder to all:
Fans vibrate, and water messes with tape.
Keep that in mind when you make some sort of temporary mount for your fans.

 

[jccaclimber]

More data to prove the point of fans. Yesterday I grabbed my desk fan from work.
Orange line is water temperature (left Y axis)
Blue line is air temperature next to the tank (right Y axis)
It’s confusing due to how Fusion plots it, but the lights were off all day yesterday, and on all day today.
I put a Honeywell HT-900 fan in my window at 11 last night and the orange dot is when I moved it to the display tank surface around 7:30 this morning.

So, yesterday 86.2*F air with no lights and still 86.3*F water. Today 88*F air with the lights on yet only 81.8*F water.

 

[Coral reefer]

That’s really the best option for almost everywhere around here. Thanks for sharing your “real” data

 

[sfsuphysics]

I agree that is a very weird way Apex plots data, you can tell no scientists work there in their programming department

 

[rygh]

More data to prove the point of fans. Yesterday I grabbed my desk fan from work.
Orange line is water temperature (left Y axis)
Blue line is air temperature next to the tank (right Y axis)
It’s confusing due to how Fusion plots it, but the lights were off all day yesterday, and on all day today.
I put a Honeywell HT-900 fan in my window at 11 last night and the orange dot is when I moved it to the display tank surface around 7:30 this morning.

So, yesterday 86.2*F air with no lights and still 86.3*F water. Today 88*F air with the lights on yet only 81.8*F water.



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How did you get air temperature into the Apex?

 

[ashburn2k]

I bet he used another probe for air only without touching the water




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[jccaclimber]

Ashburn is correct. I had a spare PM2, so I hooked it up as a temperature probe.
My current apartment is not air conditioned and generally not heated unless I’m there. If the tank temperature is getting out of bounds I can tell if the cause is my aquarium heating or cooling systems not working as expected vs. simply not being able to handle an unusual ambient temperature.