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[Salty Dog]

Curious about something - on the chiller you had all of the issues with - what brand was it & were you running the required flow (min - max) through it?

How do you plan to vent the chiller to the outside? (something I tried in the past without success)

I have 3 SW tanks in my basement office - my solution was to buy a portable A/C -which easilt vents to the outside through the window..and I LOVE it - me & the tanks all stay nice and cool. It's set at 72 during the day and 74 at night. Tanks all stay at 78 during the day. The 120 has 8 T5's on it and another tank is running MH's. I do have one Tunze fan (with temp probe) on the 120 to keep the air moving within the canopy.

Happy you found a solution

Kathy,

the chiller was /is an Oceanic 1hp inline http://www.google.com/product_url?q...TPHvI5TCwAX93tzPCg&sa=title&ved=0CCUQgwgwADgA

It had a dedicated Blueline 55HD (1300gph) and the chiller rating for low thru 1000-1500 gph. It was located in my wet room downstairs in a sub basement thats well ventilated and about 2' from the door that always stays open. Plus I had a house fan assting it the airflow thru the coil. Dont know but this Tradewind is working like a charm.

 

[Salty Dog]

Most chillers recommend the 2 degree rise before turning on. When a chiller turns on/off too often it is bad.


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I agree with this because on my Oceanic I could only go also low as 2 points of ambient so if it was set at 77 it would go up to 80ish. On an SPS tank this is not acceptable

 

[Salty Dog]

well there sneding me another brand new unit #3. They have great customer service but I cant seem to have luck with there chiller.My new tradewind 1hp is kickin ass and its a good thing because its hot

 

[Wes]

I agree with this because on my Oceanic I could only go also low as 2 points of ambient so if it was set at 77 it would go up to 80ish. On an SPS tank this is not acceptable

It's perfectly acceptable and pretty normal for SPS tanks with halides and chillers.

My SPS handle the 2 degree fluctuation just fine.

If you read the tradewind manual you will see that the 2 degree on/off is recommended. Great chiller btw.
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[TrIsTaTe05]

Got a oceanic works awesome.

 

[seldin]

...How do you plan to vent the chiller to the outside? (something I tried in the past without success)...

Kathy,

We talked about this last year. As you said, extremely difficult. I did something by accident that may work...

I did pay a lot of money, for a vent to be connected to the back of my chiller with an additional fan, to blow exhaust outside of house. THIS IS TOTALLY USELESS. In fact, chiller also worked like cr@p.

What I did, was take cover off chiller in closet and disconnected vent from back of chiller. The exhaust now heats up the closet but some of it goes through the exhaust vent that is now, not physically connected to chiller.

Works great !!!.

Totally, not professional, where closet does get hot, but at least some of it goes outside.

Now, for experience, I would do it differently. Now, I know, I would just place a large vent outside through equipment room, and use no duct work at all. Just a power switch for a fan to exhaust outside. It seems that nothing works well enough to just move my chiller exhaust through to outside.

 

[ZZROCOOL]

Im ready to snap, I invested so much time and money with a hobby that I just love but I dont have any luch with Chillers. I whent thru 4 chillers in 2 yrs. My tank is a 225, total water volume 400gallons. I bought a over sized unit, Oceanic 1 hp chiller $1,300 last year becasue the others just didnt cool my system. My frst issue with this chiller is if you set it at 78 the temp will creep up 2+ degrees before turning on. Ok well thats nothing, Then I have temp probe issues more than 3 times so the company would send out replacement parts and I would fix it. Then give it few months and again. Now the capasitor melts so I have to replace that so I do. Then It just would not cool so I make my 50th call to tech and the finally say we are sending you a new unit. Hurray the send it, I still have the old one. But after 2 weeks of use the units is on but the compressor will not start. Man Im at my wits end. I just invested thousands of dollars in SPS stuff and Im a finatic with keeping things perfect. Why does this keep happening to me.I lost th tech line # so I cant yell at them. I might go buy my 5th chiller tommorow, how makes the best one on the market? God please help me :irked:

I would check the voltage at the outlet you are powering the chiller from. You might be low or High which could be causing your problem. It doesn't effect the pumps as they just run slower or faster respectively. The compressor requires a constant voltage to keep it on hence the heavy power load then they run.

 

[Salty Dog]

chiller sits on foam right by the door to outside, with a huge fan blowing the heat out of the room. sorry for the late post. I need to figure out how to post pictures again.