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It's gonna be hot today, keep those tanks cool..

Paolissimo

Paolissimo

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The next three days are gonna be brutal, very hot. So turn on those chillers or fans, and if you must turn off the lights (especially Metal Halides) so that you don't boil your fish. And try to stay cool also, drink lots of fluid people..
Don't stay thirsty mah friends.
 
thirty5

thirty5

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I need to get a fan for over my sump. Sump is in basement and little warmer down there (its in same room as hot waer heater). Tank looks like it topped out at 79.5 today. But I would like to keep it closer to 79.



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thirty5

thirty5

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What's sucks is that I am going on vacation in july and I have to keep the central air on for the damn tank.... unless I find a chiller to borrow and just use that for vaca time. We will see I guess

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thirty5 said:
What's sucks is that I am going on vacation in july and I have to keep the central air on for the damn tank.... unless I find a chiller to borrow and just use that for vaca time. We will see I guess

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I have a 1/3 in-line that you can borrow. It was on my L/R tank that you saw. It has been offline for about 2 months now and should be ran with distilled white vinegar (2 gallons and the rest water in a 5 gallon bucket) for a day or 2 to clean it out. You just need a mag7 or run it off your BL55.
 
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Bry17nyc said:
Windows and door closed and AC is on a timer to turn on for 30 to 60 mins every 2 or 3 hours.

Yes
But I thought it would pull less electricity if it gets turned off for a couple of hours then back on for 30 mins than just to have it on all day.
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It won't necessarily use less electricity. When your A/C cools the place, it isn't only the air that it has to cool down.

Think of it this way. If someone goes away over a hot weekend with the A/C left off.... when they turn it on it can take FOREVER it sometimes feels like. The reason is that while the air is being cooled, the walls, furniture, floors and anything else in our homes that got hot simply sucks in the cold air and now the A/C has to work double or triple time to cool of the air and the materials that our homes are made of plus whatever we put in it.

If you set your T-stat at a specific temperature (maybe 79 degrees F) then it's warm enough not to kill our pockets when we get our utility bill and it's cool enough that it will not be unbearable. All of the contents of your home will be at 1 temperature all day. Your A/C will now only turn on for a few minutes at a time (if it is large enough for that space) as opposed to hours on end. Don't worry about the electric that the fan consumes because that is nothing. It's the electric that yourA/C uses when the compressor is on that puts a dent in our pockets.

A lot of times when it snows for the first time of the winter, it can snow all day and never stick to the pavement for many, many hours. That's because mass retains heat but once snow begins to cover the pavement, it accumalates very quickly and easily. Same thing applies to us trying to cool our homes if we've left it off for too long. It takes more energy to cool it.
 
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