Damn
 

My house is 85
My room where the tank is probably the same with humidity at 100% it feels like a hot sunny day in Mexico in my room. On a side note putting a frozen bottle of water in my hob ac110 keeps the tank cool all day.

the chiller (trade wind) i'm ordering tomorrow is a drop in type and the compressor will sit outside so heats not a big problem. the power bill being high is nothing new.

back on track....

I set my APEX controller to manage my temps....

81 - send me an email
80 - dusk / dawn (acitinic and super blue) T5s shut down (x2)
79.5 - daytime T5s shut down (x4)
78.5 - fans on tank and sump start
78 - where I want to keep it
77.5 - fans turn off & heater will also turn off
77 - heater will turn on

Its hot out and hot at my house no AC in the fish room. Second floor in townhouse. Today the lights were shut down and fans on when I got home - and the tank temp was slowly cooling. So its working.

Its not the temp that is always the problem, its the swing of the temp......

Tank maxed out at 82.3 today for about an hour (7-8pm). I was thinking about pulling the lights but after the halides went off at 8pm the temp started to drop immediately.

Also, the AC at my office was busted so it was really nice to come home to a more comfortable environment.

#FirstWorldReefingProblems.

priceless
 

$400 chiller pumping heat back into my house all day long :(
$ 30 fan on a chair drops my temp 2 degrees fahrenheit in hour :drinking:
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Tank is 82.1 but the house is blazing hot. Sump is in the basement with a fan blowing over it now. The auto top off is gonna be busy. Rodi lines are sweating like mad due to the cold water flowing through them.

I just finished an attached garage reno. We made sure to put R40 at least in the attic space. The main house is lucky if it has R15. The main house was 28 deg yesterday and the garage was a bearable 24 deg. Want to save money on air con and help the tanks? Way cheaper in the long run to rent a blower and add more insulation to the attic..... That's what im doing next week. :-)

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Reached a record for hottest day in Edmonton yesterday in recorded history. With the humidity it felt like 43

My heater still turns on in the summer.....

But then central A/C keeps my house at 21C (what's with all this farenheit bs? this isn't merica). And tank being in the basement it's always a couple degrees colder down there. Although I do go through more top off water with the AC running, lol.

I can't speak for anyone else but I'm an old fart who has yet to come to terms with this new fangled metric thing :razz: