flower
Well-Known Member
Hi,
I have a 1/10 Arctica titanium chiller on my 90g tank. It is keeping the temp exactly where it needs to be...but it seems to me like it's running all the time.
That's my concern. The only time the compressor gets a rest, is if I put a couple of bottles of RO water that I have frozen, to float in the tank....then the temp drops to just below the 66 degrees I have it set at, and it goes off for maybe half an hour, to an hour before it allows the temp to go to 67.1 and then it comes back on.
Is that normal.... and if not, how often should the chiller compressor be running? I have a habit of obsessing over little things, I looked up the chiller on-line, and a 1/10 chiller is for up to a 130g tank...so it should be good to chill my 90g with 2 HOB filters...there are no extra gallons of water to calculate since I removed the sump....I assumed with the sump creating 140g of water, that the chiller was working hard because of that...
Should I be concerned?
I am not concerned about the seahorses and fluctuating temps because the water is always within a single digit difference. I'm just concerned that the compressor is running too much.
I have a 1/10 Arctica titanium chiller on my 90g tank. It is keeping the temp exactly where it needs to be...but it seems to me like it's running all the time.
That's my concern. The only time the compressor gets a rest, is if I put a couple of bottles of RO water that I have frozen, to float in the tank....then the temp drops to just below the 66 degrees I have it set at, and it goes off for maybe half an hour, to an hour before it allows the temp to go to 67.1 and then it comes back on.
Is that normal.... and if not, how often should the chiller compressor be running? I have a habit of obsessing over little things, I looked up the chiller on-line, and a 1/10 chiller is for up to a 130g tank...so it should be good to chill my 90g with 2 HOB filters...there are no extra gallons of water to calculate since I removed the sump....I assumed with the sump creating 140g of water, that the chiller was working hard because of that...
Should I be concerned?
I am not concerned about the seahorses and fluctuating temps because the water is always within a single digit difference. I'm just concerned that the compressor is running too much.