If anyone has a chiller they wouldn’t mind letting me borrow please shot me a PM with your phone number. Not positive I will need it, but just incase it would be good to have the number. Looks as if my AC is broken.
freeze 1 or 2 liter soda bottles full of water and stick them in the sump each day. do you mean the house AC is on the fritz? or that portable room AC unit you have for the fish room? I cant see how your tanks would get too warm. you have mostly T5 lighting open air, and well above the tanks. did you unplug the heaters?
oh yeah, A little Tip! when you fill the bottles, squeeze about 10% of the water out first before putting the cap on and freezeing. water expands 9% when frozen to ice. then they wont burst.
I usually only half fill the bottles. Have always had 1 soda bottle in the freezer. Usually have 2 in the summer and 1 in the winter, but I forget to add the second one. I half filled 3 1g jugs with RO and stuck them in the fridge a moment ago and set the ice maker to make more ice.
I also just programmed all of my lights to not come on tomorrow and opened up the house.
The whole house AC was running all day long and it got to 80F. I turned the unit off for about 3 hours incase it was over heating, but after being on for another couple of hours the house remained at 81F. When I logged online and saw the temp was 71*F outside I knew I’d have to call the land lord tomorrow.
Hopefully the basement will stay cool enough. I’ll keep the house open as much as possible then close things up and turn fans on all the tanks and monitor temps.
What happened, did the house AC go out or just the portable room cooler you have for the fish room? I dont see how your tanks can get very warm. you have mostly T5 lighting, open and well above the tanks. have you removed the heaters? You can try an old trick of freezing 1 or 2 liter bottles of water and place in the sump. just sqeeze about 10% of the water out before freezing. water expands 9% when freezing.
i know you just had a big crash disaster, so im sure your worried, but our tanks are much more resilient when it comes to heat then we give them credit for. my tank as been running at 86* all summer with no ill effects. actually stuff is growing great so i know they are doing fine. were you there for dr. macs presentation. one of the holding tanks in his presentation was normally at 96* granted it had large amounts of water free falling in replenishing the oxygen but still 96*
i think just keep up with the frozen water bottles and such and youll be fine.
easy way to test your house AC is with a digital thermometer. while the air is on and running, first measure the temp of the house air going through the return duct or main vent. then measure the cooled aircoming out of a supply vent. both may take a while to reach a minimum low temp. the difference should be 12-15 degrees cooler at least. less than that and the AC unit is not cooling up to par. first its probably an older unit with a lower SEER rating, which is the efficiency. Current minimum SEER on new units is 13. and second, coolant has probably leaked out over time or a recent growing leak. what year was the AC unit made in and does it have a SEER rating on the nameplate? that will tell you something. when my 1988 carrier heat pump gave out 4 years ago, i replaced it with a new SEER 13 carrier. the old one was only a SEER 7 at its best. my electric bills dropped $100 a month and the house is much better air conditioned and heated now. the old one was 16-17 years old, which is a long time for a heat pump.
Hey, I offer you this my good man! Just drop your tanks off at my house for a while!!! Problem solved :BEER
Well the house got to ~87F upstairs, but down in the basement it stayed pretty cool and so did the tanks. My main system never even reached 80F.
Ken if the house is 10*F hotter inside then it is outside do you think there is a chance the AC is still working and I need to take a temp probe to the air vent? lol It’s broke. I think you missed my reply and forgot replying yourself or were dosing vodka too heavily again or something.
yeah, it sounds like its shot. how old is it? should be a manufacture date on the indoor air handler nameplate. if its more than 10 years old, you will be better off if they replace the whole system with a new outside compressor and the inside air handler. it will lower your electric bill, a lot and be much more comfortable. the new minimum standard is SEER 13. if they just recharge it with R-22, it may just leak again. R-22 has been banned from use in new units. so like freon went before, in time, R22 will cost a couple hundred dollars a pound to replace. lets hope they get you a nice, new efficient whole system. Things like a variable speed outside compressor and indoor DC fan will make it better at dehumidifying too. which improves tank cooling.
IDK? i posted twice because the website hung up and didnt my reply right away, so i wrote it again, thinking it got erased somehow.