angryp
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Really need some help on water cooling..... On my 3rd grow now and have decided to switch from a/c to water cool. I run aeroflo 60 only using 3 tubes and 15 sites, 40 gallon res (nutes) indoors with orca film on walls and floor, 8" raptor hood, 1000 watt phantom ballast, cyclone chiller for nutes, 4' can with 750 cfm fan. With switching to water cooling I'm ditching the a/c and all vents sealed room using bagged Co2. I live in socal the desert so hot as hell, here.
Ok so I bought a 11x10 titanium heat exchanger with copper fins used in the food industries, 1/4hp hydrofarm chillers (active aqua), 55 gallon drum (res), aapw1000 active aqua pump (submersed), general hydroponics tnc 1/4hp pump, insulated 1/2" line and grozone TV2 controller. Run the pump aapw1000 in the 55 drum and out to chiller and back, the gh tnc pump is drilled into bottom of drum outside feeding the heat exchanger hooked to the raptor hood at one end and the other end has the 750 cfm fan hooked to the TV2 controller. Can't seem to keep the room in the range im looking for 76 night and 79 - 81 daytime. I've tried this in every configuration I can think of;
1) aapw1000 to chiller to heat exchanger and back
2) aapw1000 to heat exchanger to chiller and then res
3) put two pumps as stated above
4) Adjusted fan speeds up and down
5) adjusted aapw1000's intake from max. to min.
6) Ran 3/4" pvc from the tnc pump up and over to heat exchange and then back to the 1/2" insulated line.
7) pulled instead of pushed air through the hood
Went from 25 gallons in drum upto 50 gallons (per hydro innovations technical support)
9) 1st attempt at this was the reason I spent $675 on the titanium copper coiled heat exchanger was so I could hook upto hood run straight down to my nute res (standard 40 gallon aeroflo 60 res) and back down to it using a second tnc pump in the drain port ( for you guys that know gh aeroflo 60). Problem there was the 1/4hp cyclone chiller cannot keep up, with heat exchange and would raise res temps to 74-76 didn't want to risk root rot and all the problems that come with high temps in the res. Soooo I scrapped that and bought the extra chiller and pump just for the heat exchanger.
Any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated, seems like this is definitely the way to go and there seems to be some guys on here that really know their stuff.
I'll upload some daytime pics tomorrow, sorry about the dark one just wanted to show the res and chillers are outside the room.
Also use blue lab gardian,
Ranco duel controller,
Xnutrients
Nutes 67°
ph 5.7
ppm low 630 using .70
Respect
California prop215 sb420 patient, so not Worried about LEO....
Burning now today and tomorrow
Ok so I bought a 11x10 titanium heat exchanger with copper fins used in the food industries, 1/4hp hydrofarm chillers (active aqua), 55 gallon drum (res), aapw1000 active aqua pump (submersed), general hydroponics tnc 1/4hp pump, insulated 1/2" line and grozone TV2 controller. Run the pump aapw1000 in the 55 drum and out to chiller and back, the gh tnc pump is drilled into bottom of drum outside feeding the heat exchanger hooked to the raptor hood at one end and the other end has the 750 cfm fan hooked to the TV2 controller. Can't seem to keep the room in the range im looking for 76 night and 79 - 81 daytime. I've tried this in every configuration I can think of;
1) aapw1000 to chiller to heat exchanger and back
2) aapw1000 to heat exchanger to chiller and then res
3) put two pumps as stated above
4) Adjusted fan speeds up and down
5) adjusted aapw1000's intake from max. to min.
6) Ran 3/4" pvc from the tnc pump up and over to heat exchange and then back to the 1/2" insulated line.
7) pulled instead of pushed air through the hood
Went from 25 gallons in drum upto 50 gallons (per hydro innovations technical support)
9) 1st attempt at this was the reason I spent $675 on the titanium copper coiled heat exchanger was so I could hook upto hood run straight down to my nute res (standard 40 gallon aeroflo 60 res) and back down to it using a second tnc pump in the drain port ( for you guys that know gh aeroflo 60). Problem there was the 1/4hp cyclone chiller cannot keep up, with heat exchange and would raise res temps to 74-76 didn't want to risk root rot and all the problems that come with high temps in the res. Soooo I scrapped that and bought the extra chiller and pump just for the heat exchanger.
Any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated, seems like this is definitely the way to go and there seems to be some guys on here that really know their stuff.
I'll upload some daytime pics tomorrow, sorry about the dark one just wanted to show the res and chillers are outside the room.
Also use blue lab gardian,
Ranco duel controller,
Xnutrients
Nutes 67°
ph 5.7
ppm low 630 using .70
Respect
California prop215 sb420 patient, so not Worried about LEO....
Burning now today and tomorrow
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