Pre-Built water chillers....

jtroutma · 10-03-2002, 08:45 PM

Check this out. Found one of these at work and it does a great job at keeping the water at a steady rate.

SaltWater Aquarium Chiller

They are aquarium chillers built to keep large water tanks at a specific temperature to simulate an ocean environment. I figure if someone hooked one of these bad boys up to a small tank and then ran another loop for their water cooling rig, it shoud work great!

Let me know what you think.

ezlid · 10-04-2002, 03:22 AM

You only need to plumb the white exchanger tank into your water cooling, no need for any extra tanks. Unless you want to put some fish in the tank.
The bad news. These things are expensive. I stopped looking as soon as I saw $695 for a 1/5 HP unit. And no info on how low the temp can be dropped.

DarkEdge · 10-04-2002, 03:28 AM

Expensive...yeah. I've been trying to find a deal on ebay for some time now, but no luck.

ezlid · 10-04-2002, 12:12 PM

You might try Googling for some tropical or saltwater fish forums. They might have sell/buy boards just like most of the PC forums.
Here's another interesting chiller, but again $$$. IceProbe Chiller Edit - this won't link properly. Enter and click Chillers on the left side.

David · 10-04-2002, 01:25 PM

You could do what i did... I copied Bender's idea and got a solid state chiller off Ebay. I get -34C temps in the water, and best of all, no compressor. If you want one, search ebay for solid state chiller. The brand is Thermotek.

Bertz_maru · 02-16-2004, 12:56 AM

yo.. im new to the forums so im still reading and gettin alot of info from here... yeh so i dont know how old this thread is but i cant help myself... i love aquariums so let me post some something for yall smarter peeps and see if yall can make anything of it... i dont know much about refrigation stuff..

http://reefcentral.com/forums/showth...ht=diy+chiller

AngryAlpaca · 02-19-2004, 08:03 PM

shroomer on EOCF called a big aquarium retailer, and they do not know of any aquarium chiller that will do a good job with the heat we are talking about, they will probably only get the water a couple degrees below ambient, if that.

10-03-2002, 08:45 PM	#1
jtroutma Cooling Savant Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: SLO, CA Posts: 837	Pre-Built water chillers.... Check this out. Found one of these at work and it does a great job at keeping the water at a steady rate. SaltWater Aquarium Chiller They are aquarium chillers built to keep large water tanks at a specific temperature to simulate an ocean environment. I figure if someone hooked one of these bad boys up to a small tank and then ran another loop for their water cooling rig, it shoud work great! Let me know what you think. __________________ Athlon64 X2 4200+ @ 2.5Ghz (250FSB x 10) OCZ VX 1GB 4000 @ 250FSB (6-2-2-2 timmings) DFI LANParty nForce4 Ultra-D SCSI Raid 5 x (3) Cheetah 15K HDDs LSI Express 500 (128MB cache) OCZ PowerStream 520W PSU ATI X850XT PE (Stock) DTEK WhiteWater + DTEK Custom Radiator Eheim 1250

10-04-2002, 01:25 PM	#5
David Cooling Neophyte Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Omaha, NE Posts: 40	You could do what i did... I copied Bender's idea and got a solid state chiller off Ebay. I get -34C temps in the water, and best of all, no compressor. If you want one, search ebay for solid state chiller. The brand is Thermotek. __________________ It Could Be that the Purpose of Your Life Is Only to Serve as a Warning to Others.

10-04-2002, 03:22 AM	#2
ezlid Cooling Neophyte Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Houston, TX Posts: 55	You only need to plumb the white exchanger tank into your water cooling, no need for any extra tanks. Unless you want to put some fish in the tank. The bad news. These things are expensive. I stopped looking as soon as I saw $695 for a 1/5 HP unit. And no info on how low the temp can be dropped.

10-04-2002, 03:28 AM	#3
DarkEdge Cooling Savant Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Sugar Land, Tx Posts: 176	Expensive...yeah. I've been trying to find a deal on ebay for some time now, but no luck.

10-04-2002, 12:12 PM	#4
ezlid Cooling Neophyte Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Houston, TX Posts: 55	You might try Googling for some tropical or saltwater fish forums. They might have sell/buy boards just like most of the PC forums. Here's another interesting chiller, but again $$$. IceProbe Chiller Edit - this won't link properly. Enter and click Chillers on the left side.

02-16-2004, 12:56 AM	#6
Bertz_maru Cooling Neophyte Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Pensacola FL Posts: 25	yo.. im new to the forums so im still reading and gettin alot of info from here... yeh so i dont know how old this thread is but i cant help myself... i love aquariums so let me post some something for yall smarter peeps and see if yall can make anything of it... i dont know much about refrigation stuff.. http://reefcentral.com/forums/showth...ht=diy+chiller

02-19-2004, 08:03 PM	#7
AngryAlpaca Cooling Savant Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Alberta Posts: 631	shroomer on EOCF called a big aquarium retailer, and they do not know of any aquarium chiller that will do a good job with the heat we are talking about, they will probably only get the water a couple degrees below ambient, if that.

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