Overview
Hailea and Resun is the more affordable brand of chiller. Both brand is originated from China. Coincidentally, I managed to get my hand on both brand chiller at the same time and thus manage to do a head to head comparison.
The chiller that I am going to compare is Hailea HS-28A and Recun CL-650. From the specification itself, the Hailea is running with 1/10 HP and Resun with 1/4 HP, it's clearly not a apple to apple compare. But since I need to choose either 1 for it for the shrimp tank, decision must be made.
The chiller need to power up my 2 feet tank (with 80 liter water), running with the Eheim 2215 (flow rate 600l/h) filter. Both chiller are actually enough power for my tank, infact more than enough.
My selection will be based on priority as below
1) Noise Level
2) Appearance (Because it need to sit on my small living room)
Specification
Let's the specification speak itself
Model
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Hailea HS-28A
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Resun CL-650
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Power
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1/10 HP
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1/4 HP
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Voltage
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220-240V
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220-240V
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Working Watt
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240w
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600w
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Iced Medium
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R134a
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R134a
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Max Water Refrigerated
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400 L
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650 L
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Recommended flow rate
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1000-1500 L/hr
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200-1200 L/hr
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Size
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400x220x350 mm
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325x365x400 mm
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HS-28a manual - Link (In chinese)
CL-650 manual - Link
Appearance
Casing
HS-28a is with black casing and silver front grill.
CL-650 whole unit is in black.
Display panel
HS-28a display panel is with blue LED showing 3 digit and come with 1 decimal place.
CL-650 display panel is with the old-style red LED and showing only 2 digits.
HS-28a is a newer product in market while CL-650 is around been a while and has built it reputation. It's a clear win to HS-28a.
Noise Level
When Kick in HS-28a produce humming sound as loud as my household fridge. While, CL-650 is much more louder than the fridge. Although both produce bearable noise, comparatively CL-650 produce louder noise than HS-28A. Here's the video to compare the noise level of both chiller
Summary
In term of appreance, the Hailea HS-28a is trendier than the Resun CL-650. In term of noise level, Hailea HS-28a has noticeable advantage as well. So, it's the Hailea HS-28a that going to chill my 2 feet tank
hi is d hailea 28a sound due to d fan in d chiller ? isit able to replace n mod it with better fan that is very quiet type ?
ReplyDeleteMajority of the noise is coming from fan blowing the fins. It should help a bit if more quiet fan is used, but I think the fans itself is already consider quiet as the unit in the video is a brand new unit.
DeleteThe fans used in Hailea is AC type and is ~ 8-12 cm standard size which can be easily found in any hardware shop.