Jefe78
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Hey folks! I have an AACH10 water chiller that is currently using either 50/50 or 60/40 ratio of glycol to water, I forget which because I set it up a WHILE back. I was using it with a cooling jacket in the garage here in SoCal which never really seemed to do much, so I enclosed the bottom of a shelving unit in insulated board & Great Stuff (Loctite's version) & did a test run with the jacket & reservoir (chiller is external to the box) to see what it got the temp down to with the unit set to 39 degrees. 78 degrees in the box. Ok, it's an improvement but nowhere near what I was hoping for.
I decided that part of what was hurting me was not enough surface area so I swpaped out the jacket for an old copper tubing immersion chiller I've got & that brought it down to the mid-60's. Better, but still nowhere near what we want, right?
I shot the tubing with an IR thermometer & it's only about 60 degrees itself, can anyone offer insight as to whether the issue is me being an idiot about something here or is it equipment-related?
Here are a couple of pics (yes it's ugly, I know) & a link to the unit ( https://www.hydrofarm.com/downloads/fc/AACH10_25_50_100_Instructions_21264.pdf ) - HALP
I decided that part of what was hurting me was not enough surface area so I swpaped out the jacket for an old copper tubing immersion chiller I've got & that brought it down to the mid-60's. Better, but still nowhere near what we want, right?
I shot the tubing with an IR thermometer & it's only about 60 degrees itself, can anyone offer insight as to whether the issue is me being an idiot about something here or is it equipment-related?
Here are a couple of pics (yes it's ugly, I know) & a link to the unit ( https://www.hydrofarm.com/downloads/fc/AACH10_25_50_100_Instructions_21264.pdf ) - HALP
