Chiller for RDWC questions

[Jhef]

What are the most reputable water chiller brands?

What size chiller would work for:
24 - bucket sites @ 8 gal/per
1 - 55gal res.

About 250gal


How big of a rez would you use if you scaled up to 100 sites on just 1 rez ? And what would you use to chill all that water? With 16,000w above that how hard is it going to be to keep those buckets cold?


Thanks in advance!

 

[myke]

Myself I would use several systems,ea strain gets its own so 10-15 sites.But that would be hard to cool the water.100 site rdwc id like to see.Good luck.

 

[Jhef]

Myself I would use several systems,ea strain gets its own so 10-15 sites.But that would be hard to cool the water.100 site rdwc id like to see.Good luck.

What size would you use on a 15-24 site? Is there a chiller big enough?

 

[mr4tune]

Check out EcoPlus's website for specs and models.

Someone with more experience may correct me, but if your doing a setup that big I'd strongly advise individual systems and separate chillers for each.

I'm running 10-site UC systems with 4 gallon buckets. System capacity with water level set is about 30-ish gallons. I run 1/4 HP models on each system and they are rated up to 80 gallons so needless to say its overkill. That being said they cool down the water crazy fast. Once the temp is set they barely come on. I have one strain that eats more and drinks 6 - 8 gallons per day, while the other feeds less but still drinks 5. You need to be able to control those factors.

That being said I'd go with 6 site systems with 1/4 HP's. That will give you plenty of wiggle room with cooling. I'd have a separate 55 gallon top off reservoir for each system. You'll need it in late flower.

@myke is on point. Bad idea to have the whole system together. You have a leak, bacteria issue, or any system failure whatsoever and there goes the whole crop. You will also run into issues running multistrain by not being able to dial in nutes specific to each.

 

[ktmracer51]

I run a 1/4 hp on about 40 gallons and it doesn't even break a sweat really. Does cool down rapidly. But here is the specs from a 1hp chiller.

 

[Jhef]

Check out EcoPlus's website for specs and models.

Someone with more experience may correct me, but if your doing a setup that big I'd strongly advise individual systems and separate chillers for each.

I'm running 10-site UC systems with 4 gallon buckets. System capacity with water level set is about 30-ish gallons. I run 1/4 HP models on each system and they are rated up to 80 gallons so needless to say its overkill. That being said they cool down the water crazy fast. Once the temp is set they barely come on. I have one strain that eats more and drinks 6 - 8 gallons per day, while the other feeds less but still drinks 5. You need to be able to control those factors.

That being said I'd go with 6 site systems with 1/4 HP's. That will give you plenty of wiggle room with cooling. I'd have a separate 55 gallon top off reservoir for each system. You'll need it in late flower.

@myke is on point. Bad idea to have the whole system together. You have a leak, bacteria issue, or any system failure whatsoever and there goes the whole crop. You will also run into issues running multistrain by not being able to dial in nutes specific to each.

Solid info! Thanks for the input.