So with the warm weather we finally had last week my fans weren't able to hold the tank at 80. As soon as I saw 81 on the Ranco I started looking for a chiller. Last summer I only had one halide and I had applied a film on my main floor windows that lowered the inside temp a few degrees. The condo board wanted the film off since the windows look like foil outside and now i have 2x250w. I have a window AC unit I run in the summer but I still wanted peace of mind so I found a Pacific Coast CL-650 thanks to Brad (Abcha0s) and a mag 12 to feed it courtesy of Keith (24storm). Thanks guys for the very generous deals!
Now I had bought a drop in coil unit a few days earlier but it turned out to not work. Check out this super rad stand I built or the failed unit ABOVE my ballast. This chiller had about 6 feet of incredibly stiff flex/coiled piping that I spent 2 hours feeding through the wall (which has a much prettier hole in the drywall now lol).
Here is my rad ghetto stand for the new inline chiller. I wanted to keep it looking like my handiwork in the stairs themselves and I think I succeeded. All about using up my scrap wood haha.
And here is the thing setup and running. I have it running off my Ranco (chiller set to 75 and so when the Ranco detects 80F it powers the unit which of course will run because the water going through it is not 75. It took about 12min to pull down 1F. WIN. I get a bit more heat down here in my unfinished office too =)
I thought I'd show you guys a pic of the braided hose I used as well for fun. It's there on the floor if you look close:
