I'm told that if you put your compressor in a tote that you will kill it shortly (or shorten its life significantly) due to build up of heat and possibly moisture.
I actually have a fan installed and ran thermal tests with the compressor running. The cooling fan, which runs all the time, blows directly on the compressor and exits out the other side via a pair of vents. Testing shows about a 15 degree increase over the ambient temperature so I believe I should be good. However I do need to run another test with it out in the sun to confirm.
I'm also only running it for 4 hours in the early morning hours (3am-7am) as the daytime pond temps at the surface get into the high 80's to low 90's. While I'm pretty sure things are OK I'll double check the static temps to make sure.
