"Read about your liquid cooled setup and having 55 gallon drums. I am experimenting with a 32 gal res, and a homemade chiller, with 20 ft of copper tubing in the res, and a 5 gal bucket of water in the mini fridge. Fridge cant seem to stay ahead of the heat curve, but it slows the progression for awhile. Reaeding the posts Id like to know where to pick up 55 gal drums, and how you PVCed them together. Are they in series, with the output to the liquid lumens leaving one barrel and the return entering the last barrel in teh chain? I thought of that but was worried that there would be a back up problem of the PVC connection not being able to be equal to the pump output to the fresca sol I have. I am using a mag drive 350 pump, as the guys at the hydro store used a $25 Aqua 250 GPH pump which failed due to high heat (100F) int the 65 gal res they were using with a 1000MH. I have had so far after 12hrs, a 1000HPS heat the 32g res to 104F and ambient in the 3x3 hydrohut I have get to 95 degrees, and using a 400HPS, the ambient gets to 85F, and res temps at 100F.
Any input you have would be helpful."
For some reason I have gotten a couple of messages out of the blue about this so I thought I would make a thread and hopefully it will be useful for anyone who is interested. This site has and continues to teach me more every day, so if I can add anything I will be happy to try.
Any input you have would be helpful."
For some reason I have gotten a couple of messages out of the blue about this so I thought I would make a thread and hopefully it will be useful for anyone who is interested. This site has and continues to teach me more every day, so if I can add anything I will be happy to try.