Chiller Question

[Milez803]

Summer coming, and this year i plan to get a chiller. Every year my corals always die due to the heat. This year i have spend alot on Sps coral and i plan to keep them alive. Can anyone provide me with information on the chiller size. I have a 130 gallon tank with maybe 40 gallon sump. many people told me that a 1/10 chiller is good enough, especially if i run my MH at night. I just wanna get some opinion on that situation. Any information would be grateful. Thanks

 

[MarineDreamer]

Chillers move the heat from the tank into the room that they're located in. So if you're running A/C, which I assume that you would be, being in Cali; then the chiller and the A/C unit will be fighting each other and would be a huge energy waste. If this fits your situation; turn up/get a bigger A/C unit and run a fan across the top of the tank. (Evaporative cooling)

If this isn’t how your system is set-up; give us a better description. There are smarter heads in here than mine.

 

[Dr. Dee]

Your gonna need to get a 1/4 HP run that tank it will pull it down 10 to 20 degree down noway a 1/10 will work without a
big PG&E cost from running all the time.

 

[SeaMonster]

use powerheads to create small fountains in your sumps and put a fan on them

 

[MC Lighting]

I agree a 1/10 is too small in LA I used to live there and know how warm it can get. Although I agree with the A/C argument fighting a chiller what I have done is built it so my chiller vents driectly out a window with a tight fit so only the hot air being exhausted goes out the window and does not waste more cooled air than necessary and as stated if a large enough a/c unit then you can run fans and over cool the room; I don't do this because I live in a condo without a/c so I use window units that could never keep up with the tank load on top of room cooling.

 

[Scooterman]

turn up/get a bigger A/C unit and run a fan across the top of the tank. (Evaporative cooling)

Properly placed fan will evap. more water & cool more efficiently than a rated chiller.

We are hot & Very humid down here, chillers & A/C units have to work even harder to remove the moisture from the air & the little fan as in this pic works wonders. I do have a 1/4 H.P. Aqualogic Trimline & it is great but now I don't have to run it nearly as much without that one fan. I do have a 40g RO/DI holding top-off tank, I evap about 2G a day! I also have two radial fans in the back I don't even use.