Redneck AC (Homemade Air Conditioner)

[metal15051]

Use some zip ties or hose clamps, you've got lots of air being drawn into the lines

[EazyWarrior]

dude your kidding right?

[RumbleTouchDroid]

Water below the waist, electricity above the waist, bro.

[RumbleTouchDroid]

Water below the waist, electricity above the waist, bro.

[cookellycoo]

You MAY want to move that power strip- zzzzt.

[JLynnPUNK]

a car radiator would be much more efficient

[mba2ceo]

... or U can just open up the cooler.

[desertbard]

Bury the ice chest in the ground about 10 foot down. Pump the water into the house. The coils will be about 58 degrees. Problem is you will need a bigger pump to pump the distance, but still it should be cheaper then a compressor running.

[sallymaggiespotty]

A store bought unit is at least ten thousand times more efficient.

[CHShotzy]

"There you can see the whatchamado." Classic!

[djpain69]

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[djpain69]

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[StoneBoneAndFire]

'Cool' idea man.

[SuperWing0]

GOD BLESS RED NECK KNOW HOW

[lemonrind]

@TheV8freak I know what a heat pump is. This is not a heat pump. Now, the freezer that produces the ice IS a heat pump, but it is pumping heat from inside the freezer to the outside environment. If the freezer is kept indoors, then it is, in fact, heating your home. The laws of thermodynamics dictate that the freezer will always produce more waste heat than can be cooled using this method. So the only solution is to keep your freezer outside, otherwise you are accomplishing nothing.

[thekingofcows]

@lemonrind Your completely wrong. This definitely violates laws of thermodynamics and turns the said room into a popsickle via the law of interdimensional linearization of the eigen vector subspaces in the form ia1--n=cb1----n*rd1----n, i of course meaning ice, c being cold, and r being room. (a,b,and d scalars) being It's third grade stuff man!

[phitsvang]

@lemonrind I`m agreeing with you here. What IS third grade fact is that their once were thought, very simple example, is when you open a fridge on hot day, standing in front, you may perceive your house will be getting colder, junk. For the coldness escaping etc etc, the motor at the back has to work much harder, to get the coldness back in, means more energy, and with power developed to get this cold again, energy/any energy for that matter is accompanied with heat.So effect is hotter/same rslt

[locutus340]

ever heard of a swap cooler much better

[totallytommy]

This particular model also doubles as a "redneck electric chair"...

[lemonrind]

So, where do you get the ice from? The freezer? Freezing water in a freezer produces heat. In fact, you will always be producing more heat than you can cool using this method. Unless your freezer is outside, you are heating your home!

[thekingofcows]

@lemonrind The Store

[Robikus]

Careful that fan and water. Would hate to see you pull a Tomas Merton.

[chasefeasr69]

whatchamadoo? lol..water?

[x9x9x9x9x9]

Just go to a junk yard and pull out the compressor from an old refrigerator and fill the tubing with some R1 52a (aka freeon or dust off) then you have a COLD ac.

[OscarMaris]

i love rednecks!

[ERASER1091988]

YEEEEEHAWWW!

[thekingofcows]

A glorious lack of sophistication. --Jeff Foxworthy--

[stavie04]

@thekingofcows Jeff Foxworthy is a glorious lack of comedy

[Dragonicafan]

what does redneck mean?

[alostad1]

Homemade Air Conditioner 1



[CFL35]

lol

[NGSPC4Life]

I think if you insulate the supply line it would improve the temp coming off your fan, it looks like the the return line is being cooled by your supply line

[ChicagoBears1]

Dude said "whatchamado"

[thekingofcows]

Copper Prices jump all the time. I think I gave between 8$ and 15$ for it.

[cocaneman92]

Home much did you pay for that copper??? At my local home depot it was like 50$ for a bit over 15ft

[theseemorewoofers]

You can get a pond pump a home depot for like $15.

[nadeem5476]

it will fill more humidity in the room which will b so hard to live in . isnt it ?

[Dolphin8097]

@nadeem5476 It remove humidity like an air conditioner, the water vapor in the air condenses on the copper and drips off, the same thing happens in an airconditioning that is the white pipe dripping water outside.

[Zachstar2000]

@Dolphin8097

And where does the water go? The towel and then the tower over time evaporates the water back into the air and then you have the storage itself which likely isn't sealed properly and thus is a net moisture plus into the room.

[deathparade32]

@Zachstar2000 umm, there is a net zero moisture gain/loss. the water condensation is from the air, so if it evaporates it goes back into the air. plus, if you ring the towel out down the drain once in a while, then there would be a net loss in moisture content.

[jamiJamster]

@nadeem5476 the water aint coming in contact with the Air.....so ofcourse no Humidity gain... but it will dry up the room....

[Zachstar2000]

@jamiJamster

Are you kidding me? The tubes have air flowing all around them of course the water is going to evaporate back into the room!

[maiky3838]

I made one and it works better than expected, went to home depot and bought like 15ft of 1/4 copper tubbing + 5ft of vinyl/rubber 1/4 tubbing + an aquarium pump and some zip ties to hold the copper tubbing to the fan + a small foam ice cooler from the gas station. My room temp normally hovers around 78F and with the home-made A/C it can reach 72F after one hour. I save around 90/100 bucks on my elec. bill =)

[MugenRenegade]

Where did you get your pump? Please reply.

[thekingofcows]

@MugenRenegade Wal Mart

[braddo12345]

PRETTY MUCH A CHILLED WATER SYSTEM, GREAT!

[nadabeloved]

that dont work

[braddo12345]

@nadabeloved people have been using this idea for ages. its called a chilled water system.. really effective

[bobbytimberlake]

@braddo12345 It's not effective, because the only amount of heat it can remove is what it takes to melt the ice.

After that you're just pumping room-temp water around in a circle, cooling nothing and actually adding heat (from the motors and friction).

The only way it'll cool the room is if you keep dumping the old water and adding more ice--and you're getting rid of less heat than you created making the ice. So it's either expensive and time consuming, or not doing anything at all.

[braddo12345]

@ bobbytimberlake the australian defence force actually use chilled water systems on their boats. its just pretty much a fridge thats chills the water and a pump that pushes the water around in a series of pipes and runs through a coil which then the fan blows chilled air. they use chilled water systems on large applicants because  it is alot cheaper than normal straight forward A/C...

[bobbytimberlake]

@braddo12345 What they're using is completely different because they're using a compressor to cool the water--the same way a refrigerator or AC unit works.

The whole point of something like this is that running a compressor takes a huge amount of power (and therefore cost). Just pumping water around in a loop won't give you any more cooling than letting a bag of ice melt and then staring at the room-temp water.

[mrbobdog707]

I going to build one my self, but instead I will be using a heater from a old ford truck, a Rule bilge pump,and one 90mm 12v fan. all of which will be installed in a ice chest...

[aravind110995]

really nice

[thekingofcows]

It probably could if you build some type of shroud around the fan, and spend a little more time routing the copper lines.

[McBlaise]

can it cool one room?

[nadabeloved]

@McBlaise well just if ur using a bigger fan and the double of copper

[trinidadracing]

nice