TLa

I came from a reef hobby and in this hobby people tend to use aquarium chiller to keep tank water cool around 78F. These chillers come with automatic temperature control which will turn on itself to specific setting. You might also need a bigger reservoir.

Would this be more efficient that conventional radiator with fan type setting in terms of performance? Has anyone tried it before? I know ppl talk about mini fridge and all but in the aquarium trade, fridge doesn't work either to keep tank water cool.

Aquarium Chillers:
http://www.marinedepot.com/ps_Aquari...rs__index.html

CyberDruid

Absolutely.

The larger units suitable for several hundred gallon aquariums are cerainly capable. What I was unable to dtermine from the literature is how loud these units are.

I am sure that a unit designed for 100 times the capacity of a PC loop wuld provide sensational cooling.

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DeaDLocK

Seems like a high cost solution but would work, probs to the point you may need to insulate hardware because of condensation. But none the less a idea that will work.

Nuxes

If you do it, take pictures, this will be epic.

DuckieHo

Some of the smaller aquarium chillers are just TEC units. Those won't be.... provide the specs and we can tell.

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TLa

I agree that noise will be a factor. They all produce humming noise when they are on. But on the other hand, the bigger reservoir will eliminate the probability of it to be constant on. Nonetheless, it will be noisier that most conventional PC water cooling solution since those chiller are designed and operated in living room environment.


How about this chiller
http://www.championlighting.com/prod...353&bestseller

Here's the review of much bigger chiller with quiet operation sound test.
http://www.advancedaquarist.com/2006/8/review3/view

leastbay

I have kept reefs for the past 10 years also, the JBJ articas are very good and also very quiet, the smallest one would work great especially being the small volume of water.
this one would be perfect

http://www.marinedepot.com/ps_ViewIt...ct~JB1131.html

leastbay

here it is for $269 at premium aquatics, their customer service is excellent and they will take care of you if you have any problems
http://www.premiumaquatics.com/Merch...egory_Code=JBJ

Nuxes

So, are you going to have fish in this aquarium?

RonindeBeatrice

So... is the idea to use these as part of a loop or to drop a radiator in a giant tank? I'm guessing the larger the volume of water the harder it would be to warm up/cool down, so that effectively negates using a giant reservoir. Does this unit do its own pumping? Could you use it to supplement a traditional radiator design? Interesting ideas, but would this thing really hold up to 24/7 usage?

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