Mixing station is garage

[Anthrax15]

Now that I have a garage, I set up my RO/DI unit and mixing station in there with 2 x 32g Brute Trash Cans (One for RO/DI, one for salt). But after having the RO/DI water sit in the trash can in the garage, its nearly 90 °.

How does everyone else go about dealing with the heat in the garage during AZ summers?

 

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i have a spare room in my house but in the past i used a chiller.

 

[Mpraytor2]

I mix everything then bring it in over night to let it cool

 

[Jayreefer]

My mixing station is also in the garage. During summer I just fill my brute cans and let them sit overnight aerating.

 

[AZMSGT]

My station is also in the garage. I do auto water changes and the 90-95 degree water goes straight into my sump. My tank is large enough not to get effected by the input of the water. I change out 440ml at a time, once an hour 24-7. My tank stays at 78-78.5

 

[Jason Scalise]

same as above.
I have two 65g reservoirs in my garage: one with RO/DI water and one with NSW.
I use a dosing pump to add 0.5g per day directly (160ml every 2 hours) into the sump, 24/7.
Tank is 115g in total volume...so just under .5% water change per day.
The 1/4" tubing from the NSW reservoir goes through the wall and to the tank. I added a bit more tubing coiled up in the house than was directly needed. this allows the NSW in the tubing to cool down a bit because it is in the air-conditioned house. That said, I DONT THINK it matters.

I will spare you the calculations, but even if adding 160mls of 105deg (hypothetically) NSW into the sump at a time, the volume of water in the tank is so large compared to that, it would only raise the temp by something like 0.0001 degrees. not even measurable.

The reason I put it all in the garage is 1) more room, 2) I can't stand the noise of the dosing pumps and 3) now my display tank "appears" to have zero lines or cords going to it. All hidden.

dosing and AWC and ATO lines going through wall and into closet. Display tank is on other side of the closet.

 

[Anthrax15]

I'd love to do that but Im not sure my dosing pump can push water to the second floor. I'll most likely just have to make water, bucket it, and leave it in the house over night. I have a 50g display and will most likely be doing 10g water changes every other week. Regardless, most likely dumping 10g of 90 degree water into the display will certainly change the temp slightly.

 

[Jason Scalise]

yes, it is a volume thing and temperature 'inertia' so to speak.

But if you added 10g of 90deg water to your 50 display and if the display is at 79deg, for instance, it would only raise it by 2.2deg.

I am not saying you would be ok with that, perhaps you would not be...but just to point out it won't raise it by 5 or 10 deg or something catastrophic.

the calculation is
T(final) = (m1*T1 + m*T2) / (m1 + m2)
m1 is the volume of one fluid and T1 is its temp.
m2 and T2 are the volume and temp of the second.

And in your case, you would actually use 40g as your display because presumably you would remove 10g first before adding the 10g of NSW.


Also, as far as the dosing pump pushing to the 2nd floor...I actually think it would suffice given how it works (peristaltic movement). If others have experience with this and say otherwise, ok....I can stand corrected. But because it is pushing small boluses at a time, I think it would work and different than a standard 'flow pump'.

It would be easy to find out. borrow or buy a used pump and see.
My thoughts anyhow.

jason

 

[Anthrax15]

Awesome, thanks for all the extra info! Might be worth it in the future then, just don't want to ruin my lease