Hailea HC-500 or HC-1000 Any Good For Water Chilling?

[Rodriguez]

Rodriguez, please dont take any offense to my prevous post...

i was just trying to make sure you understand about when condensation happens. for most practical applications, condensation happens when air is in contact with anything that is below its dew point. the higher the humidity in the air, the closer to ambient condensation will happen.

for example, if you have air at 100% humidity, condensation will happen within a few degrees colder than the air.

if your air is at 0% humidity, witch is almost impossible in your house, condensation might happen, but only at very cold temps.


i hope this helps in explaining about problems with condensation

No offense at all but also no new enlightment on condensation

I'm fully aware of how condensation forms but I was asking for a general view on real world application with this chiller & ambient temp, cause I've got 5 meters of tube insulation which I don't really think will be necessary taking into account the chiller cooling power & the components I will be cooling,

So if my water temps will be around 18-20 Cº & my ambient temp is 24 Cº 35% humidity I don't really think there will be any sort of condensation & I'll skip the insulation.

I'm actually putting the chiller outside my house and running a couple of insulated hoses through the wall into a holding tank ( approx 80 litres ) and then into the machine. I'll have a Laing DCC1 pump on the Computer side of the holding tank and a larger volume pump on the Hailea side of the tank to bring the flow rate closer to manufacturer specs. Should be about a week away till it is all done. Will post back with results and photo's when it is all done.

Making the holding tank out of 19mm clear acrylic. Using the tank will allow to have higher volume/flow rate for the Chiller but keep lower rates for the components to minimise the chance of leakage.

I've done all the assembly as per the following pics only to find out later on when leak testing that one of the new DDC's 1Plus mounted on EK Dual Turbo Top is dead I'll have another one on Thursday. I'm still leak testing but with only one pump in operation. Most probably I will have to leak test again with both pumps to see if the higher pressure causes any leaks. I haven't turned on the chiller yet

Something really strange happens, after filling & refilling the loop I left the pump running & the res fill port open, but as soon as I switched off the pump after 30 minutes operation, the res immediatelly overflowed & poured out like 1/2 litre of fluid with high pressure that rose about 20cm up into the air. So q
when I have the pump turned off I cannot open the res or it will overflow.

Most probably it's something really basic that I'm missing out of, but right now I cannot see the reason.