working on a diy water cooled dehumidifier to run off the 10,000 gallon cistern directly below my grow....I am a auto mechanic not an engineer so......Thoughts, comments, questions, suggestions concerns?
some info:
started off life as a royal sovereign 45 pint dehumidifier
Dehumidifier compressor/capacitor Plugged into a png-030 humidity controller with a dead band of 5%(prevent short cycling)....png-030 humidity controller plugged into inkbird 308 thermostat with temp sensor attached to the evaporator to run the defrost cycle when needed( inkbird 308 has an adjustable compressor time delay to prevent short cycling with the defrost cycle)....then the inkbird Thermostat plugs into the wall receptacle
PNG 030 has memory so it restores its previous settings whenever power is taken away then reapplied to it from the inkbird 308 thermostat(defrost cycle)
the fan is a 10”ac infinity Axial fan that is on a speed controller so I can dial in the air flow across the coils.
plan to drywall(green board) the rooms this spring
pump is a pond master Model 36 feeding a 1/2hp penguin window unit chiller which feeds a long 1” pvc manifold with 4 separate 1/2” ports(2 - 8” hydro innovations ice boxes/6” ac infinity s6’s faand 2 water cooled dehumifiers) then back to the 10,000 gallon cistern directly below the grow...return manifold is 1 1/4” pvc with 4 corresponding 1/2” ports...I’m thinking I’ll get around 800 gph of flow when it’s all said and done but do have a gph meter to install to verify flow rate
in the winter the window chiller is removed from the garage window and ran inside the garage to use the reject heat to heat the garage
Pipes are insulated And proper drainage in place to combat certain dew point complications.
this grow also has a separate water cooling loop for the summer time that runs through aluminum waterblocks w/ HLG qb96 led’s attached to them(dew point permitting) but that’s a whole separate conversation
some info:
started off life as a royal sovereign 45 pint dehumidifier
Dehumidifier compressor/capacitor Plugged into a png-030 humidity controller with a dead band of 5%(prevent short cycling)....png-030 humidity controller plugged into inkbird 308 thermostat with temp sensor attached to the evaporator to run the defrost cycle when needed( inkbird 308 has an adjustable compressor time delay to prevent short cycling with the defrost cycle)....then the inkbird Thermostat plugs into the wall receptacle
PNG 030 has memory so it restores its previous settings whenever power is taken away then reapplied to it from the inkbird 308 thermostat(defrost cycle)
the fan is a 10”ac infinity Axial fan that is on a speed controller so I can dial in the air flow across the coils.
plan to drywall(green board) the rooms this spring
pump is a pond master Model 36 feeding a 1/2hp penguin window unit chiller which feeds a long 1” pvc manifold with 4 separate 1/2” ports(2 - 8” hydro innovations ice boxes/6” ac infinity s6’s faand 2 water cooled dehumifiers) then back to the 10,000 gallon cistern directly below the grow...return manifold is 1 1/4” pvc with 4 corresponding 1/2” ports...I’m thinking I’ll get around 800 gph of flow when it’s all said and done but do have a gph meter to install to verify flow rate
in the winter the window chiller is removed from the garage window and ran inside the garage to use the reject heat to heat the garage
Pipes are insulated And proper drainage in place to combat certain dew point complications.
this grow also has a separate water cooling loop for the summer time that runs through aluminum waterblocks w/ HLG qb96 led’s attached to them(dew point permitting) but that’s a whole separate conversation
