Hailea water chiller
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dbkick
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depends a lot on your res I'd say. some details may help. I hooked my chiller up to a 55 gallon res and recirculate there, but I was running a rdwc/ebb and flow kinda hybrid deal. I used flood table bulkheads and 3/4 inch pipe to 3/4 inch barbed fittings.I know you can't see any details there but one of the bulkheads has a piece of 3/4 inch tubing running to a pump at the bottom of the res, it just recirculates thru the chiller and back to the res. when I was running this system as hybrid rdwc/ebb and flow ( dunno wtf to call it actually) this worked well for me.
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Thanks dbkick I can see that you created holes in your res to fit your chiller , I think I may have to do this , but I was trying to avoid this as I have a store brought system.
dbkick
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you gotta get water too and from somehow, if you gotta punch a hole you gotta punch a hole, you won't find a drillbit large enough for a bulkhead to fit so I suggest a unibit, the hole is like one and one eighth inches I believe. you can get a unibit that goes that large at home depot but it will cost you 55 bux, if you have a harbor freight they sell a two bit set one small and one large for 20 bux.
superstoner1
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i cool 5 res's on 1 chiller and 30gal res. i have 1 pump that just circulates water to chiller and back to res, this is controlled by a temp sensor in res that turns on pump and chiller. the second pump runs a 1" pvc manifold that leads to individual valves(for each res) to control flow. from the valves i run 3/8" hose to 50ft wort chiller in res and back to 1" return pipe.it is controlled by temp sensor in one of flower res and it easily keeps all res's(220gal) at 66f. now i am working on individual sensors for each res with electric valves.
