Your advice on a Chiltrix chiller

RayWohlfarth

I am looking to add air conditioning to the second floor addition of my home and need your advice. The space is heated with a baseboard and a cast iron boiler. I would like to use chilled water and was thinking of a Chiltrix chiller. Have you used one and your thoughts about it would be great. The load is about 1 1/2 tons.
Thank you for your expertise and guidance.

Ironman

It's nice equipment; similar to SpacePak's chiller. But for that small of a load, why not use standard ductless like Mitshubishi?

hot_rod

You would need 80 gallon or so of buffer, probably to prevent cycling the chiller?

What about the humidity?

Need a dew point control no doubt, or you could end up sweating. the heat emitters, not you personally

RayWohlfarth

@Ironman I was thinking of that but I was hoping to use hydronics as I sell my boilers against VRF every day LOL
@hot rod LOL I was thinking of using the wall mounted fan coils that look like the ductless mini splits.
Thanks Gentlemen

nicholas bonham-carter

I've heard the fan coils are noisier than a minisplit.--NBC

RayWohlfarth

Thanks @nicholas bonham-carter

Ironman

If you go this route, don't forget that you'll have to fill it with glycol - in spite of what the instructions may say. If you lose power when it's cold, there's nothing to keep the HX and external piping from freezing.

RayWohlfarth

@Ironman Thanks They also suggested an electric heater. Thinking this may soon evolve into a larger than anticipated project