Ira Posted February 5, 2010 Report Share Posted February 5, 2010 Think it will do the job? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caryl Posted February 5, 2010 Report Share Posted February 5, 2010 It will depend on the angle I suspect Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reef13 Posted February 5, 2010 Report Share Posted February 5, 2010 I have a few they definitly work well never used one to cool a tank though! but if thats what you want to use it for you could sure make it work Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danilada Posted February 5, 2010 Report Share Posted February 5, 2010 Come on Ira, you live in Upper Hutt, wheres the heat coming from? It certainly aint the weather. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ira Posted February 5, 2010 Author Report Share Posted February 5, 2010 Come on Ira, you live in Upper Hutt, wheres the heat coming from? It certainly aint the weather. Where have you been? It's been boiling the last week. That fan is going to be set up to suck air from outside and pump it into the house. I figure if a turnover rate of 3-5X per hour is good enough for a fish tank, a 750 cubic meter/hour fan should give my house enough turnover. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cricketman Posted February 5, 2010 Report Share Posted February 5, 2010 Why dont you just slap a truck turbo on there while your at it! "Yo' kan get sum Meanz interkula ans stainless mannyfolds 2 cuzz! fo' Shizzle my nizzle! P.I.M.P!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dat1 Posted February 5, 2010 Report Share Posted February 5, 2010 i was considering of pinching the mrs's dehumidifier and say its broken then use it to make a chiller. Am i wastin my time? and is a fan better? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tsarmina Posted February 5, 2010 Report Share Posted February 5, 2010 Come on Ira, you live in Upper Hutt, wheres the heat coming from? It certainly aint the weather. I agree with Ira, where are you?!?! it was another scorcher of a day here in wainui, even the pool was warmer than my fish tanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ira Posted February 6, 2010 Author Report Share Posted February 6, 2010 I have the fan semi installed. I think I just about got heatstroke crawling around in the roofspace. Must have been at least 40° up there. It's wired up and ducted to blow air into the house, I haven't gotten external grill for the intake though, yet. So it's just blowing skunky nasty roofspace air into the house like those garbage HRV systems. It's much quieter than I was afraid it would be. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reef13 Posted February 6, 2010 Report Share Posted February 6, 2010 lol skunky air eh ira? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jennifer Posted February 6, 2010 Report Share Posted February 6, 2010 Goodness me Ira, why do you keep a skunk in your roof space, and how did you get it through quarantine in the first place? Dreadful smell, haven't had the displeasure of smelling one of those for about a decade now... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlos & Siran Posted February 6, 2010 Report Share Posted February 6, 2010 I went to the states a few years ago and you can smell them when they've been run over, wasn't a pleasant odour and it was fairly well dissipated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zev Posted February 6, 2010 Report Share Posted February 6, 2010 It would not surprise me at all if Ira kept a skunk in his roof space :roll: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ira Posted February 6, 2010 Author Report Share Posted February 6, 2010 It would not surprise me at all if Ira kept a skunk in his roof space :roll: I hear they actually make really good pets once they're descented. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jennifer Posted February 6, 2010 Report Share Posted February 6, 2010 I hear they actually make really good pets once they're descented. *gag* who'd want THAT job? We did surgery on a ferret once to remove its scent glands - imagine two glands on either side of an anus that is hardly bigger than a rat's...then imagine how close you have to get in order to see such tiny glands....then imagine a hideous musky, faecally, sickly sweet smell that you can't get out of your nose for a week (especially if you happen to pop the gland when you are removing it). Not pretty, not pretty at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiwiplymouth Posted February 6, 2010 Report Share Posted February 6, 2010 Ahhh the joys of this forum. I just love that in the space of a few short posts how the topic of conversation can go from cooling a fish tank with a fan to surgery on a ferrets bum Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zev Posted February 6, 2010 Report Share Posted February 6, 2010 Hmmm KP, careful here, the ferret surgeon is the same person who is offering you cake when she visits Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jennifer Posted February 6, 2010 Report Share Posted February 6, 2010 ROFL 8) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suphew Posted February 6, 2010 Report Share Posted February 6, 2010 Thats a great looking fan Ira I could do with a couple of those, where abouts and how much?? (if you don't mind me asking) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ira Posted February 6, 2010 Author Report Share Posted February 6, 2010 Thats a great looking fan Ira I could do with a couple of those, where abouts and how much?? (if you don't mind me asking) Egley Electrical, $346.83. You can see most of the stuff they sell on http://www.securimax.co.nz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suphew Posted February 7, 2010 Report Share Posted February 7, 2010 i was considering of pinching the mrs's dehumidifier and say its broken then use it to make a chiller. Am i wastin my time? and is a fan better? Definitely worth trying the fan first, breaking a dehumidifier which will only do an average job at best when you could spend just a little more and get a second hand chiller seems a waste to me. A $10 warehouse desk fan blowing across the water surface will drop the temperature by 2-3 degrees Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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