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Old December 5th 07, 07:12 PM posted to rec.aquaria.marine.reefs
Wayne Sallee
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Default Cooling again

When it gets cold outside, I close up most of the
windows, and the humidity gets real high with over
800 gallons of aquarium water. With the windows open
the humidity is not bad, except in the summer when
the humidity is high outside. :-) I should put a
humidity monitor up to read actual measurements.
Maybe some day I'll do that. :-) But on the days
that it's cold outside, and most of the windows are
closed, the condensation on the outer walls, is not
a good thing. :-)

Yes, a chiller is definitely the way to go to reduce
humidity.

And if one were to build like a 1,000 aquarium in a
house, one would definatley want to enclose it, and
install a vent to pull all air outside. :-) And use
a chiller with the compressor coils outside. Hey I
can dream, can't I. :-)

Wayne Sallee



KurtG wrote on 12/5/2007 12:45 PM:
Wayne Sallee wrote:
Yea, but this is winter. You shouldn't have any problems with hot
humidity now. By the way I live in Central Florida.


My indoor humidity has been running about 76, but as high as in the
80's. I was thinking that with a chiller I could also back off the
evaporative cooling and maybe reduce my indoor humidity.

Wind is a big difference too. I've been trying to put a fan in the
window in the afternoons.

--Kurt

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Old December 5th 07, 10:24 PM posted to rec.aquaria.marine.reefs
KurtG
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Default Cooling again

Wayne Sallee wrote:
When it gets cold outside, I close up most of the windows, and the
humidity gets real high with over 800 gallons of aquarium water. With
the windows open the humidity is not bad, except in the summer when the
humidity is high outside. :-) I should put a humidity monitor up to read
actual measurements. Maybe some day I'll do that. :-) But on the days
that it's cold outside, and most of the windows are closed, the
condensation on the outer walls, is not a good thing. :-)


I bought a walmart-special thermometer and humidity weather station
mainly to monitor the outside during the summer months. You know it's
hot when it's hitting 96 for both temp and humidity.

The outside unit didn't stand up very well to the first nor'easter.
When they say "dry location", they mean it. Problem is nothing is dry
in 50 mph winds.

--Kurt
 




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