Thinking of DIY Chiller....

[Melvin]

Hi Bro, does anyones know any ideas of DIY a Chiller???? or like to share his diy chiller project????

[lightningstrike]

Hi Bro, does anyones know any ideas of DIY a Chiller???? or like to share his diy chiller project????

soon.....soon..... when i get back from Japan........ in 6 mths time.....

[Melvin]

Hi Bro, currently hv u got any plan/ideas in yr mind...like to share....

[lightningstrike]

urrrr....... now time is not on my side...... juz hv to wait till further till i come back from Japan. not the time to divulge my concrete plans as yet. dun worry, u will be the first to try it, if i really do come out with one....... my guinea pig!!!! :D

[alvy]

http://www.aquarealms.com/viewtopic.php?t=12391

[desm0nds]

Talking about DIY chiller, this is interesting. It will be really great if there is someone out there that can share with us the idea. But I am sure, the Chiller seller will be very displease.

Nevertheless, just for discussion. Have you people ever wonder how a typical Ice-cream man with a tricycle keep his Ice-cream from melting through the long hour? In fact I have seen this ice-cream selling the ice-cream from 11am till late at 8pm. And his ice-cream is still as cold and "hard". i see no motor installed. Even if there is, there will not be any power supply from the tricycle to keep the motor going.

anyone of you know how he achieve that? Perhaps this could be implemented into the DIY chiller idea?

[terryansimon]

I have a rough guess that it is a matter of insulation and ice blocks at the bottom?

[CalciumReef]

Ice cream man uses DRY ice...wrapped in Newspaper...but this idea is totally not feasible to be used in any chilling application.Drop the idea.

What some reefers do is to put in a bottle of frozen water(Ice) from the fridge...but we all know its not a good solution.

[tineng]

read a article some time back about using water bath (those that are used in lab) to cool the aquarium....anyone had any experience in that?

for me i have not even seen a water bath before....

[terryansimon]

my idea of a water bath in my school lab is to soak a test tube in a container containing cold or hot water.

how on earth are you going to soak a tank?

unless we're talking about a different water bath.

[Tanggy]

if you are able to do welding or know some one who can. why not do one from a 2nd hand aircon. just take out the heat exchanger, make a heat exchanger from titanium pipes and a box to keep the piping and allow water to flow through (seen on the net being made from acrylic). connect the gas piping to the diy heat exchanger to the input and output of the piping. add a therstat unit to controld on/off.

But will be much easier to buy one unless you are in the aircon trade. The bar fridge ideal doesnt work. nether will the running a tube through a ice box method unless you can keep changing the ice in the ice box. There's no cheap way to effectively cool a tank bigger than 2ft (standard 2x1x1)

[rockfish]

GREETINGS TO ALL DIYERS,

hey i have been thinking of a diy chiller for sometime already.. like to share with u guys. actually this idea has been ard for ages..

i'm thinking of making a diy chiller out of old chest freezer. same like before, drill a hole on the wall of the frezzer. then put rubber hose thru it. then coilas many rounds in the freezer. before coming out from the freezer thgru the same hole.

[rockfish]

the mini bar fridge idea cannot work becos the cooling from the mini bar is too little. i intend to coil my rubber tubings in a container, then fill the container with water and freeze it... in this case the temperture at the rubber tubing coil will alwayse be freezing pt .. when water runs thru more cooling can occur.. the temperture can be control by the flow rate of the water running thru the tubings..

[ryz]

very crude leh... and the pipe must be very heat conductive..

[rockfish]

well as u guys noe .. titanium tubings are extremely ex... so rubber hoses are the most cost worthy...

ant to increase the cooling ... i have decided to freezer the whole rubber tube coil in a container filled with water .. in that case .. no reason why the water cannot cool efficiently... and i'm not using a mini fridge .. if u guys din read carefully... i'll be using a chest frezzer ... one that make ice cubes and freezes food ..