What's holding me from this mod is it will have longer kick-in time.
From the observation on the chiller's LED panel, the chiller kick-in to cool the water from 26C to 24.9C and kick-out, water temp will rise very fast to 25.5C & them slowly & gradually to 26C, which it will kick in again.
But if you have an thermometer (up to one decimal accuracy) & check it against the chiller's, you will realize that when the chiller kick-out at 24.9C, the water temp in the fish tank is only cooled to ard 25.5C. Yes, this is attributed to the 2 thermometers are reading at 2 different places.
What I am trying to say is the kick-in duration (prior to modding) is effectively cooling to the tank water from 26C to 25.5C. a 0.5C delta.
With the mod, it will be cooling the water with a 1C delta. The kick-in will be lesser but the kick-out will take longer.
It's a chicken or egg thing.
Nevertheless, it was said that the initial kick-in will consumes higher electricity ( a spike), so this mod which reduces kick-in, reduces the number of spikes, saves a bit of electricity also.
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