chrisfowler99 Posted September 16, 2010 Share Posted September 16, 2010 Ugh...A/C went out last night...pretty sure the A/C was actually heating the house. 84 degrees in here this morning. Fan blowing on the tank, window open (it's cooler outside than inside...for now) and ice bags floating in the water. Hope they can get this fixed today... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
offroadodge Posted September 16, 2010 Share Posted September 16, 2010 i feel ya...last year about this same time my A/C went out. My wife was pregnant 8mnths and the tank was an issue. Luckily i had some 1/2 gallon milk containers that i freeze in my big freezer, so i just put one of them in there to keep the temp below 80-81. Hope the A/C is an ez fix for yall. i have two box fans if u need them, and im pretty sure your not to far away. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisfowler99 Posted September 16, 2010 Author Share Posted September 16, 2010 I usually have several liter bottles of water frozen. I use them to cool my water before a water change. Except I forgot to pull them out after the last time. Doing bags of ice and freezing some more bags now. I've got a fan on a stand blowing across the top of the water. Hopefully that's good. Already got a call in to the A/C company. Hopefully they make it over early today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+mcallahan Posted September 16, 2010 Share Posted September 16, 2010 Might be too late now. but just to be safe, use RO/DI water in the frozen bag. If the bag leaks, or breaks. you'll just be putting RODI water in your vs. tap water that has who knows what in it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisfowler99 Posted September 16, 2010 Author Share Posted September 16, 2010 Yeah...wish I had a choice about that...I just had to go buy ice at the convenience store to have enough. My containers for ice water for cooling my water change water have RO/DI in them. A/C repair people here between 12 and 2... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robb in Austin Posted September 16, 2010 Share Posted September 16, 2010 I went through this this summer and you are going down the right path. The other thing I did was put my gfo/gac reactor inside a styrofoam cooler full of ice water. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisfowler99 Posted September 16, 2010 Author Share Posted September 16, 2010 Burned out fan motor...I have cool air again! Phew! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeeperKeeper Posted September 20, 2010 Share Posted September 20, 2010 Congrats! Probably one of the less expensive things to break on an AC unit. For the sake of anyone reading this who's in the same boat, I recently had a reminder of how well plain ol' evaporation works to cool a tank. In the new location, my tank is completely enclosed in a cabinet and was getting a little warm in the afternoons. I put a fan inside the cabinet, but just down next to the tank and without an actual vent it wasn't doing much. Then I mounted the same fan at the top where it was blowing across the surface of the water. The temp immediately dropped a good 6-8 degrees! Downside is that I have to fill my top-off almost twice as often, but oh well. Now we're running around 75 instead of 80-82 at times. The first day I had just plugged the fan into an outlet and it stayed on overnight after the lights went off and the tank went down to 73 by the next morning. Now I keep it plugged into the same timer as the MH's so the temp doesn't swing so much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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