Roidan's Reef (I)

[terryansimon]

do CAI for your cabinet. cold air induction.

[bwilly]

do CAI for your cabinet. cold air induction.

unless the car is moving, else there's no flow of cold air inside. hehe..

[weileong]

i saw a good true sine wave inverter in sim lim tower...its the cotek brand..metallic blue casing...damn cool looking...rated about 600W continuous pure sine wave output...about 400plus SGD....

another brand...Geni@s Pow#r....they have a pure sine wave version also...highest wattage about 300W continuous, 1000W peak surge output....it is good enough for lights and other use...but don't waste your time trying it on your expensive pumps like eheim pump for long period of time....cannot tahan...my personal opinion...

anyway, singapore power seldom lose power also lah...its just kiasu safeguard

Sounds like way too $$$ but if you ever experience a blackout and then get a massive dieoff worst right?

If I do get a power backup, it will be for powering a ph for internal circulation only. Like that 230Ah can last for quite long time.

No need to use CAI, at most add a fan to draw in cold air into your cabinet can already. Or youl like those shinny aluminium pipe???

[bwilly]

link thru the freezer..?

freezer drill a hole, n link the piping to the chiller air intake..

wahaha...! shiok man..!

[terryansimon]

CAI can be done in a lot of ways what.

turbo intercooler. movement of air to expel hot air.

or exhaust fan to draw in cold air.

[weileong]

might as well keep the chiller in the fridge

[terryansimon]

might as well keep the tank inside the fridge.

[roidan]

Sounds like way too $$$ but if you ever experience a blackout and then get a massive dieoff worst right?

If I do get a power backup, it will be for powering a ph for internal circulation only. Like that 230Ah can last for quite long time.

No need to use CAI, at most add a fan to draw in cold air into your cabinet can already. Or youl like those shinny aluminium pipe???

can last u whole weeks on 230AH..

[weileong]

Whata great idea! End up need to use heater to keep the temp up.

Or you keeping pengiun? Like Jurong bird park heheh.

[terryansimon]

I don't want to imagine the amount of electricity consumed by a fridge huge enough to engulf his 6ft tank.

"here here. look at my tank?"

"WHERE?! I only see a big fridge! eh thirsty leh. inside got Coke or not?"

"open and see lor!"

"wah biangz!"

[weileong]

modify the fridge to add glass door. Then can see the pengiun and those ducks swimming around.

[roidan]

siao ah you guys...like that i might as well go move house to north pole to be eskimo!

[weileong]

south pole better cos got penguin and no polar bear.

Later global warming all the pole ice melt then no more place at north pole for you but south pole got land ma.

[terryansimon]

good idea. seeing the fact that you wouldn't be able to bring you 6ft tank over, you can always pass it to me.

[roidan]

hahaa..siao liao you guys....

all give *yellow card*...

[Crab]

Wondering this idea will work. Buy many lorry size battery and connect it to the UPS. No problem hitting 1,000AH !

[roidan]

like that u can run your own power station at home liao...lol

[weileong]

Wondering this idea will work. Buy many lorry size battery and connect it to the UPS. No problem hitting 1,000AH !

problem with those starter battery, cycle one time and the batter kapu liao.

Need deep cycle ones. Anyway price not much difference cost a bit more only.

[Crab]

problem with those starter battery, cycle one time and the batter kapu liao.

Need deep cycle ones. Anyway price not much difference cost a bit more only.

Care to share what's deep cycle & starter battery? I open up my UPS and saw a concealled battery like the one in my car.

I use the UPS to charge my 12v battery too

[weileong]

Starter battery or called cranking battery aka car batteries, those you found use in automobiles used for starting the engine. They are design to give a high current for a short duration, eg to start the car engine. Should not drain more than 30% of the capacity and need to charge them back immediately. The plates used in these batteries have thin lead coatings and big surface area for high surge current. The problem with them is due to the thin lead, they tends to drop off and then the battery lose capacity. That is why if you forget to turn off the car headlights and the battery get drain off too much, you need to change the battery already because the lead plate are already damanged.

Deep cycle batteries have much thicken lead plates but smaller surface area and can be drain down to as low as 10% of the rated capacity and then charge back to full capacity, they works great as long within the life cycle of the battery. They are not so suitable for cranking cos their surge current is not as high as the cranking batteries.

You can buy the Trojan deep cycle batteries from YHI. One 115Ah (25kg) cost me $150. You need a proper charge to charge them, don't use those car battery chargers, you'll kill them by overheating them.

[roidan]

yazid bro:

does the level of bubbling looks correct to you?

[terryansimon]

you still breaking in your skimmer right?

let it be first I believe.

whats the SG of the water by the way? normally I'd raise mine to half of the tower.

and how come yours got air tube sticking out one?!

[roidan]

yeah..breaking in..but no foaming unlike the weipro 2014..thus me panick..hehe

ok..will let the water level be there first..

i make it 1.021 currently...

got one time the watever level almost covered the fitting...thus i put an airtube there now to prevent water from entering into that hole..lol..

i seriously know nutz about this skimmer..hope bro yazid share his light with me

[terryansimon]

I don't think water will flow in through there and create a catastrophic event of happenings.

you want foam? use Nutrafin Anti-Chlorine. confirm can see foam one.

let the skimmer break in for a few days. once you start adding in unwashed material like sand/rocks, you'll start seeing brownish foam at the water tower itself. I tried turning the gate valve so that the damn foam will rise to the top, but it just overflowed after a while. gave up and just let it sit in the center of the water tower and let the foam creep up by sheer volume.

working like a charm so far for me. but the skimmate is still quite watery. so yah.

[roidan]

thanks for the walkthrough terry

will monitor the foam these few days..hehe