Re: cooling a tank
- From: Yuriy Krushelnytskiy <y.krushel@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:42:00 -0700
Neil,
I am not sure if this is feasible with your tank, but the way I did it
with my tank was to use a fan in the hood that blows air across the
water surface.
I had to actually design a thermostat that would turn the fan on only
when tank temp reached 78F (~25 C) from 85F.Without the thermostat it
would drop down to 74F.
I use fairly expensive fan though - Dayton 6kd75 ($36 Grainger.com)
....
Here is the link to simple thermostat schematic. This is not the one i
use but very close functionally...
http://hbd.org/mtippin/thermometer.html#Next%20Step%20--%20Refrigerator%20Control
Hope this helps.
Yuri
On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 22:54:27 +0100, Neil Woodman
<arbs44@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Does anyone have a relatively inexpensive way of cooling down your
>tanks? I plan to be using a small tank with MH lighting but I cant
>particularly afford a chiller right now. Short of positioning a fan
>blowing at the water surface to take the heat away can you guys
>recommend anything else? My house gets quite warm in the summer and its
>hard to keep cool, my tropical tank is at 30c at the moment and I've
>just turned the heater off because it wont cool down at all!......Maybe
>I should start keeping discus...
.
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