Has anyone with limited room under in the stand ever mounted a chiller in the attic? I don't have the luxury of having my tank next to the garage (detached). All it would take is a pump that puts up 15' of head and run lines through walls with a dipleg in the attic for the chiller. Make sure that chiller volume + line volume won't overflow sump. Put an A/C pan under chiller with the drain running to soffits outside? Just a thought.
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Hey Scott,
Only problem I can see would be the compressor cooling coil. I needs to vent heat from the compression of the refrigerant. This is the coil that is mounted outside of the home in a typical AC system. With the high ambient temperature in the attic during the summer, this coil would be operating inefficiently in the attic.
Trey
Only problem I can see would be the compressor cooling coil. I needs to vent heat from the compression of the refrigerant. This is the coil that is mounted outside of the home in a typical AC system. With the high ambient temperature in the attic during the summer, this coil would be operating inefficiently in the attic.
Trey
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If the chiller is a "flow-through" chiller versus a drop-in chiller, you coule run your plumbing through that attic to the garage and keep the chiller in the garage. The only thing you would have to do it make sure that your plumbing was very thickly insulated so that the ambient temperature in the attic did not return the retun water to a high temperature.
You would definitely need a large pump with a very high head pressure to pump the water any great distance, though. Maybe an Ampmaster 3000 or something along those lines, and even that may be too weak if you are plumbing it very far.
Just an idea though....
Jim 8)
You would definitely need a large pump with a very high head pressure to pump the water any great distance, though. Maybe an Ampmaster 3000 or something along those lines, and even that may be too weak if you are plumbing it very far.
Just an idea though....
Jim 8)
chadhender
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Run the Chiller to a closet near by.
incysor
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Here's a link to a DIY chiller.
One of the guys that works for RC has this on his 400gal setup, and gets a 4-5 degree pulldown on it. He thinks that if he turned it down more he could probably get a 7-8 degree pulldown, but he doesn't need that much.
He actually runs the line outside to this, and then back to his sump.
http://saltyzoo.com/PhotoAlbum/page.php?urlStr=/saltyzoo/frag-tanks/equipment/chiller
Some of you may have already read this thread on RC, but here is his setup from the installation to present.
http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=354940
One of the guys that works for RC has this on his 400gal setup, and gets a 4-5 degree pulldown on it. He thinks that if he turned it down more he could probably get a 7-8 degree pulldown, but he doesn't need that much.
He actually runs the line outside to this, and then back to his sump.
http://saltyzoo.com/PhotoAlbum/page.php?urlStr=/saltyzoo/frag-tanks/equipment/chiller
Some of you may have already read this thread on RC, but here is his setup from the installation to present.
http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=354940
