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    Cheap tubing insulation

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    Hi guys,

    Wanted to insulate my tank to get better chiller efficiency, but I couldn't find any information online on where to get them.
    Here is my DIY result:

    Materials:
    Daiso aluminium sheet
    Cable ties, smallest you can find
    Transparent tape



    Final product:






    Takes about 1-2 hours to wrap the foil and cable tie it. For additional seal you can use tape to seal the length of the wrappings.
    Not the best workmanship, but the results are pretty impressive.

    Tank parameters:
    Size - 40L
    Filter - Fluval 206
    Chiller - HS-28a
    Temp set - 26c
    Room water temp - 30-31c


    Before DIY wrapping:
    Chiller kick in: 12-15mins
    Chiller kick out: 42-45mins

    After wrappping:
    Chiller kick in: 10mins
    Chiller kick out: 60mins

    I did not wrap the UV sterilizer as it gets warm when turned on.
    One could only suspect if you can get some aircon grade tubing insulation, that might further increase the efficiency of the system!

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    Re: Cheap tubing insulation

    Bro, you could get the tubing according to your hose diameter at North East Refrigeration or Airflex (both in the eastern area) you can google them for address. I also heard a bro got his from Bioplast

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    Re: Cheap tubing insulation

    Wa can cover the dirty tube too ! So i can dont need to clean the hose ! Haha, do you use external temperature sensor? Seem like my kick in and out timing almost same as your.

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    Re: Cheap tubing insulation

    Ya man, I'm looking for something that's easy to wrap my tubing to reduce algae in it.

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    Re: Cheap tubing insulation

    Thanks HBK, I'll check them out when I have the time! Professional tubing will look and work way better

    Dscheng, there are lots of variables between systems, so no surprise if you got the same timing as me without insulation. I'm using internal probe. You can see it fixed just beside the outlet.

    Ingen, not sure if there is algae, but my previous setup had lots of mulm in it, reducing my flow by quite a fair amount.

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