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Message started by mpescatori on 09/12/14 at 02:35:21

Title: Home made air conditioning
Post by mpescatori on 09/12/14 at 02:35:21

Literally for free !

http://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=770836692974911

;D

Title: Re: Home made air conditioning
Post by Serowbot on 09/12/14 at 09:16:18

...or, just drop the ice down yer' pants...

Title: Re: Home made air conditioning
Post by Dave on 09/12/14 at 09:49:05

4056415C44515C47330 wrote:

...or, just drop the ice down yer' pants...

Nope....that results in the onset of "frightened turtle" syndrome. :-[

Title: Re: Home made air conditioning
Post by 1st2know on 09/13/14 at 12:30:39

I tried a few of these this summer, it works a little. It can cool a small room (bedroom) by a few degrees.

No need to use an insulated box if a fan is going to blow/draw warm air in to the thing, a cardboard box works just as well.

Also, I found that using ice frozen in 12 16oz pop bottles to be more effective than free ice or ice blocks.

After several tests, I found that it's best to use the fan for exhaust, out of the top, and have intake vents at the bottom of the box to draw the cooler air up.

Ideally, you want to melt the ice as fast as possible with the warmer room air, as that will produce the best cooling. The pop bottles help by providing more surface area for the warm air to melt the ice.

Title: Re: Home made air conditioning
Post by HAPPYDAN on 09/16/14 at 08:31:48

Clever idea! I saw something like that a while back, using a case (24 bottles) of 16 oz water bottles, filled 3/4 full and frozen. The bottles were placed back in the flat, another flat was placed on top, shrink-wrap wrapped around the long side and a small box fan placed at the end. The air blows thru 4 rows of 6 frozen bottles each, and circulates the cool air. Minimum humidity and dripping water problems, and sort of works for a small room.

Edit: Just noticed 1st2know said the same thing - he in Seattle, me in Gig Harbor! Must be a Western Washington thing!

Title: Re: Home made air conditioning
Post by 35thprojectile on 09/27/14 at 17:36:03

5 gallon buckets work good for this.

Title: Re: Home made air conditioning
Post by justin_o_guy2 on 09/27/14 at 18:47:52

I think a bigger box with a 2"story" design and ,as previously mentioned,the fan blowing right on you,sucking air past the bottles. I'd want the box longer and I think the air flow would be okay pulling air past at least 12 frozen bottles. I can see it being used. Some people Can't tolerate heat and if the air conditioner is out,,,hey that's an option..
That said,a cool shower,a spray bottle,a fan.. staying wet and in front of a fan in a medical Necessity type of moment works for me.

Title: Re: Home made air conditioning
Post by ToesNose on 09/29/14 at 04:20:05

Yea the heat does me in, especially if there is any humidity. When I was living in India I dreaded the rolling brown outs.....

Title: Re: Home made air conditioning
Post by 1st2know on 01/09/15 at 16:01:38

For next summer, I think I'll try a variation of this guys idea:
http://www.wimp.com/cooldog/?utm_source=fb&utm_medium=pp&utm_content=cooldog&utm_campaign=winter/

I like the idea of putting frozen pop bottles in a PVC drain pipe, then drawing air over them.

I would probably have about 6' of pipe to hold the bottles, and, like this, several fans, blowing directly on me.

Title: Re: Home made air conditioning
Post by Dane Allen on 01/09/15 at 16:48:34

Heck, why not jus use a motorcycle radiator, or a car radiator if you have a chest freezer, and freeze that. Not that everyone has a few of those laying around but I imagine it would cool pretty efficiently, while the ice lasted.

Title: Re: Home made air conditioning
Post by bobert_FSO on 01/09/15 at 18:44:54

However, it is not free cooling. It costs money to make ice. Either in your freezer (extra electrical load) or somewhere else (buy it). I would imagine that these contraptions are not really all that energy efficient when you look at the big picture.

Title: Re: Home made air conditioning
Post by MnSpring on 01/11/15 at 18:12:41

Just a few years ago.
Used to take beer cans, fill them 3/4 full of water.
put as many as we could fit in a cardboard box.
Take them to the refectory, (Cafeteria, in non Catholic speak),
for the Friday evening meal.
(Cute young gal working their would take them put them in the freezer),
Sat morning pick them up, set the box in the dorm room,
put a fan on one side.
Coolest room on the floor.

But of course, by evening, no one their, ‘cared’, if the Ice had melted. ;D ;D ;D

Those of you down south. What is a, “Swamp Cooler” ;)

Title: Re: Home made air conditioning
Post by ToesNose on 01/12/15 at 04:31:40

Ahh the old swamp coolers that you could attach to the car!!! Yea they were basically misters that were powered by the car moving, pretty neat. There were home versions too, kinda like a poor man's A.C. that would mist/infuse cols water into the air :D