ScoobyDoobyDoo
Well-Known Member
hey bud, you are definitely a little confused. first off, they make commercial chillers upt to 100hp i think. the ones used for grow rooms go up to 20-25hp. (www.chillking.com).Scooby, I just wanna make sure Im understanding all of this correctly.
Im looking at your design of that op. In the design, there are 4 different CO2 tanks stationed throughout the facility. Two in flower, one in clone/veg, and one in mother room. It looks like all of the CO2 tanks are ran to a 12 hp chiller, thus enriching the water of the chiller with CO2. (I didnt even know 12hp chillers existed. A 3hp is rated for 36,000 BTU. For 11,000w of just lighting, is that gonna be enough?) The Chiller then forwards the chilled water to the two 5 ton air handlers, one each in the mother and flower rooms. Since the water is CO2 enriched, it is dissapated throughout the entire growing area.
Is that correct?
Also, I cant see the text in the red box in the Workspace area, or the gray and blue box on the left in the Clone/Veg area. One looks like fan, I cant tell the other.
This plan looks like an amazing basement grow Id like to utilize in the future, and Id like to save this for reference but Id just like a better understanding of it.
Thanks in advance
i am not enriching the water with Co2, those are water cooled Co2 generators. (www.hydroinnovations.com). i have a 12hp chiller that has 2 internal reservoir with seperate pumps. one of the reservoirs is kept at 45 degrees and that feed the air handlers via 3/4" flextech hosing which is run on the outside of the building. it then comes directly through the wall and into the air handler. you want the water that cold so that the water cooled air handler runs more efficiently. plus, those temps allow it to dehumidify the air better. the blue and red lines you see are feed and return lines. the other reservoir and pump run through the grow rooms feeding the water cooled equipment like the Co2 generators, reservoir chiller coils, water cooled dehumidifier in the drying room; etc... you have to keep the water temperature in that reservoir much higher; around 60 degrees or else you will have condensation all over your equipment in the grow room.
so i have a 12hp chiller that is split into 2 5hp water cooled air handler (10hp total) and 2hp for the other equipment being cooled. the flower room is now 10,000w so it's a total of 13,000w of lighting in the building. on top of that it is in a VERY warm climate. that 12hp chiller has NO problem handling it all. not sure why you mention a 3hp chiller. maybe you have read my other posts. i have a 3hp compace self contained at another location that runs about 3,600w of lighting and other equipment. the chillking units are actually rated for abotu 10-15% more than the stated btu. i have the equipment to test the output on my units and my old 2hp was putting out 27,000btu; my 3hp is putting out 39,500btu, and my 12hp is putting out 163,000btu.
the text in the red box in the workspace area says "loadcenters." i have 3 200amp services supplying the building and other things on the property like exterior lighting; outlets; etc. plus i run 60 amps off one of the panels to a small house on the property and another 50 amps to a subpanel that runs the water pumps, gate control, security lighting, and camera systems.
the grey boxes in the clone/veg room are inline fans and the blue boxes are Ice Box Heat Exchangers. it was easier to just use a heat exchanger in that room than running ducting from the air handler.
the grow is not a basement. it's a 1500sq.ft. solid concrete building built to spec by me and my guys. i build high end dpec homes for a living. so this was like a pet project.
send me a PM with a dummy email account and i'll send you the autocad plans and a .pdf that will let you see a lot better.
1-2hp non-self contained chiller
3-5hp non self-contained and self-contained compact chillers
4-8hp commercial self contained single compressor chillers
6-20hp commercial self contained dual compressor chillers
