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Old 07-30-2015, 01:09 PM
Stan Stan is offline
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Default Cooling Nutrient Water Outdoors

For the past couple years I have used coolers as my nutrient reservoir and would add frozen bottles on those hot days. The past few days have been in the 90+ and I can't keep up with the frozen bottles to keep the temps down.

I have covered my coolers with the sun screens you would usually put on the windshield of a car and it has helped somewhat.

I was wondering if anyone has ever used stainless steel cooling coils? I would attach it to a hose and would run cold tap water through it till the coils got cold in hopes of bringing the temps down? Could this work? Anyone have any other suggestions that might work? This is my set up but I am using a much larger cooler than the 1 in the pic.
http://www.hydroponicsonline.com/for...ead.php?t=2035

I was thinking about buying this.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/like/1313092...lpid=82&chn=ps


Last edited by Stan; 07-30-2015 at 01:12 PM. Reason: added info
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