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Serowbot YaBB Moderator ModSquad Online OK.... so what's the speed of dark? Posts: 28645 Tucson Az Gender:	Re: Home made air conditioning Reply #1 - 09/12/14 at 09:16:18 ...or, just drop the ice down yer' pants...
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Dave YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 18098 Camp Springs, Kentucky Gender:	Re: Home made air conditioning Reply #2 - 09/12/14 at 09:49:05 Serowbot wrote on 09/12/14 at 09:16:18: ...or, just drop the ice down yer' pants... Nope....that results in the onset of "frightened turtle" syndrome.
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Re: Home made air conditioning
Reply #3 - 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.

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Reply #4 - 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!

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Reply #6 - 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.

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ToesNose Serious Thumper Offline Pardon me, do you have Hot Sauce? Posts: 1993 Mooresville, NC Gender:	Re: Home made air conditioning Reply #7 - 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.....
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Re: Home made air conditioning
Reply #8 - 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&...

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.

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Dane Allen Serious Thumper Offline Carpe Diem!! Posts: 1217 Riverside, CA Gender:	Re: Home made air conditioning Reply #9 - 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.
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bobert_FSO Senior Member Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 421 Wichita KS Gender:	Re: Home made air conditioning Reply #10 - 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.
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Re: Home made air conditioning
Reply #11 - 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. Grin

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

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ToesNose Serious Thumper Offline Pardon me, do you have Hot Sauce? Posts: 1993 Mooresville, NC Gender:	Re: Home made air conditioning Reply #12 - 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
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