Score!

[PghBall]

Hope those who have started the season are getting locks. I don't have a pick yet but scored a full size aquafina cooler that I am picking up tomorrow with the help of sugar Shane. No more worrying about space for clutches! Will lost pics as soon as I get it here.

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[don15681]

I have a glass door large coke cooler. this year it was pretty full. almost had to fire up the emergency incubator. (small upright freezer)

[PghBall]

Got it here. Need to get Heat tape and make some mods but the lights, fans etc work so that is a bonus!



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[MarkS]

Nice catch, that should make a great incubator.

[4theSNAKElady]

Flippin sweet!!! How much that run ya? We have a glass front coke fridge as well for our incubator.

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[Pythonfriend]

the advantage of these is that as long as the containment is fine, you can totally buy a broken one


BTW that is not an Aquafina fridge, there is no such thing *hairsplitting*. Its a fridge produced by a company that produces fridges, which has been branded/purchased/contracted out/franchised by aquafina, by putting in that piece of printed foil at the top. You might look up the actual manufacturer and model, that may help.

But then, you wont use it as a cooler and wont plug it in, at least not its cooling system and not the electronics it currently has. For now its a piece of furniture with excellent thermal insulation, until you transform it into an incubator

i would only keep using the lights it has, if its possible, not the fans. The fans, in an actual fridge, will be transporting the air to the heat sink, which removes heat from the inside air and transports it outside using the cooling system. So, if you turn it into an incubator, the fans will be optimized to steer the air towards a heat sink. That heat sink or heat exchanger would normally be actively cooled by the cooling system; with the cooling system offline it may still be highly effective at moving heat out of the containment and draining it away. To make a proper incubator you need to identify and seal off some areas and the fans it already has may not be very helpful.

the systems that normally suck the heat out of it during normal operation may now be issues that need to be resolved.

[PghBall]

Pythonfriend thanks, I know I'll need to mod this up. I didn't plan on using much more than the light. I paid 150 due to everything working with the exception of keeping things cold. Will update once I get into it.

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[don15681]

greg, I have basically the same cooler. if you're at the show on 10/13 stop by the table and I'll tell you how I have mine setup. been running for a few years and is very stable.
it's the Washington pa show

[BPLuvr]

Pythonfriend: Actually a fridge would have two coils (aka heat sink) one being internal (evaporator) which may or may not have fans. Using these fans if equipped would be great and help circulate air within the fridge to help keep a consistent temperature throughout. The external one (condenser) which would definitely have a fan is the one that removes heat from the refrigerant (condensing it) and would be the one you can feel warm air blowing out (which in reality it is not blowing air out of the fridge but circulating air that is already outside the fridge across the coil).

PghBall: Great pick up I was only able to find a mini fridge for my first incubator but think it will handle 6-8 clutches. GL on the build!

[Pythonfriend]

Pythonfriend: Actually a fridge would have two coils (aka heat sink) one being internal (evaporator) which may or may not have fans. Using these fans if equipped would be great and help circulate air within the fridge to help keep a consistent temperature throughout. The external one (condenser) which would definitely have a fan is the one that removes heat from the refrigerant (condensing it) and would be the one you can feel warm air blowing out (which in reality it is not blowing air out of the fridge but circulating air that is already outside the fridge across the coil).

you are basically right; the problem is that even when the fridge is not running, these can still be basically connected via heatpipe. coolant will still move and work towards keeping their temperatures similar, by flowing around and evaporating and condensing. liquid flows to warmer areas where it evaporates and gas flows in the opposite direction to cooler areas. if thats the case then the back of the fridge will get as warm as the inside of the fridge, the effect can be similar to having a big hole in the insulation. You wont lose humidity, but heat can creep out. maybe that needs to be modded, maybe not, test runs and a temp gun will surely reveal this.

the price sounds fair, considering how many clutches this will be able to hold and the good condition.