RE: NANFA-L-- Homemade chiller

Drummond Howard (drummondhoward-in-hotmail.com)
Tue, 30 May 2006 20:18:43 +0000

Todd's evaporative chiller with the condensate from your AC unit. I would
clean the condenser first, they can get pretty dirty if stuff gets through
your filter. Running the AC lowers the humidity which makes the evaporative
chiller more efficient and the condensate shouldn't pickup much of anything
from the coil - it's not in contact with it for long. I used a lot of AC
condensate in FL and was never able to detect any copper, the tubes may be
aluminum.

Keeps you cool, aquarium a few degrees lower than the room, and possibly,
the humidity low enough that you don't have a condensation problem on the
glass. The water from the condenser should have almost no disolved solids
so adding back doesn't increase TDS.

Anyone ever test AC condensate for disolved metals?

Drummond Howard
Gaithersburg, Maryland

>From: Jase Roberts <nanfa_list-in-jaseroberts.net>
>Reply-To: nanfa-l-in-nanfa.org
>To: nanfa-l-in-nanfa.org
>Subject: RE: NANFA-L-- Homemade chiller
>Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 12:08:42 -0700
>
>My off-the-cuff response is that it wouldn't be possible/practical. You'd
>need either cold or pressure to condense the water vapor that you've
>evaporated. If you've got a source of cold, you use that to chill the tank
>directly rather than condensing the vapor. Creating pressure takes energy
>(and creates heat), so probably wouldn't fly, either.
>
>-Jase
>
> > -------- Original Message --------
> > Subject: Re: NANFA-L-- Homemade chiller
> > From: Mysteryman <bestfish-in-alaweb.com>
> > Date: Tue, May 30, 2006 4:47 pm
> > To: nanfa-l-in-nanfa.org
> >
> > Here's one for the tinkerers:
> >
> > How to make a powerful evaporative chiller that recaptures the lost
> > water and returns it to the system?
> > Would it even be worth the bother?
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