Garage fish room?

[ramsey]

Also, the majority of the water will still be in the house, so the ambient temperature will be somewhere between the temp in the house, and the temp in the garage.

[Bill S]

It's not the temperature of the WATER. It's the air you are using as a heat exchanger. I go into a LOT of garages, every day. The only place worse for a chiller, is the attic. Put it outside. If you put it inside, you are just heating up your house, which will then have to be cooled by your A/C. None of these are very efficient - why dump heat into your house, that you then have to dump back outside with your A/C unit. Just put the chiller outside where it belongs. By putting it outside instead of in the garage, you can halve the size of your chiller.

[ramsey]

It's not the temperature of the WATER. It's the air you are using as a heat exchanger. I go into a LOT of garages, every day. The only place worse for a chiller, is the attic. Put it outside. If you put it inside, you are just heating up your house, which will then have to be cooled by your A/C. None of these are very efficient - why dump heat into your house, that you then have to dump back outside with your A/C unit. Just put the chiller outside where it belongs. By putting it outside instead of in the garage, you can halve the size of your chiller.

The main reason is the chiller I have is not an outdoor chiller so I'm not sure how well it'll hold up. Also, how the garage is situated means I'd have to plumb across the garage which I'd like to avoid. I understand that the temperature of the air matters to the chiller, since it needs to export the heat out, but the amount of heat it needs to export from the water is lower since the ambient air temperature is lower inside the house. In other words, if my entire set up was in the garage, the water temp would be even higher than if half of it was inside. I wouldn't need the chiller if I wasn't putting my sump garage. It gives me a lot to think about though. I feel it'll just be trial and error until I find something that works.

[350gt]

Was thinking about adding

http://m.homedepot.com/p/Ventamatic-...-202913817-_-N


To my garage to pull some heat out....

[ramsey]

Was thinking about adding

http://m.homedepot.com/p/Ventamatic-...-202913817-_-N


To my garage to pull some heat out....

Yeah, I'm thinking about something like that as well. I would think one or two of those would cool things down a lot.

[350gt]

I was just at home depot today and I forgot to pick one up....

I would like to see what happens to the temp in there....

[alton]

What if you rented a trencher, dug a 100' in your front yard 30" deep. Installed a 200' of 3/4" PVC, connected a small pump. 80 degree water in, after 200' you should have a temp around 74 degrees returning to your sump and no heat.

[CoryDude]

Still catching up on this thread but I had my dt in the living room and the sump in the garage. It worked out pretty well, especially with the noise.

But the chiller in the garage didn't work out from May- Sept. It got way too hot and the chiller started short cycling. FYI, I've run my standard chiller outside for 3 years now. It's on blocks about 3 feet from the ground with 2x4 posts and plywood for a roof. I'll never run a chiller in the house again.

[Big_Pun]

sounds like you got a whole lot of work ahead of you. so is this sump running in the house at moment ? just asking cause i thought you sold your old tank and i know this doesn't fit under the 185.

[hobogato]

like cory, i ran my chillers outside. i built an acrylic cover for them and insulated it with foam to improve efficiency. i have run two different chillers this way with no issue and no noise/heat indoors.

pics of the cover on the last chiller i ran

before painting


installed