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  • how about making it a closed system? one bucket with water in the bottom, just like you have. then set a bag of ice in the water.

    when the warmer water returns to the water in the bucket, it will be re-cooled by the bagged ice. and once again, the ice cold water is pumped back to the copper coil on the fan.

    think it will do the trick?

    one bucket, and put a lid on it with a small hole in it so it doesn't flop out. oh, and another hole for the hose with return water. adds to your great idea!

  • Serious question. Has anyone actually tried this and can attest to it actually working?

  • Save yourself $40 bucks and just use the fan.

  • that's a waist of water

  • @triggerfingerrunwild put it on the garden or something. you don't have to waist it!

  • that could have been done so much better. first of all, use an aquarium pump to pump the water into and out of the tubes and back into the water. also, you can buy refreezable icepacks that you simply rotate in the water and the freezer, saving you trips to the store buying more ice.

  • when its 100 degrees the air is dry this puts mosture back into the air which will bring the room temp down. when we sweet it cools our body down...

  • If you keep the exhaust bucket in the same room, doesn't the heat circulate back into the room?

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  • With a fairly large thermos (that you could fit a small bilge pump into) you could actually circulate radiator fluid and just have frozen zip lock bags full of water radiate into the radiator fluid. It has to be a closed system though because if the radiator fluid is in contact with air ethylene glycol can be vaporized into the air and cause serious brain damage LOL. Its a bit more expensive but you should consider a system like this. I've achieved coolant temps of -17 degrees C.

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  • @blmallett I think it doesnt work at all. I had a big fan and the tubing and everything seemed to be perfect. Please let me know if it works for you. Right now I feel fooled.

  • this is so useless, its inefficient, hard to build and expensive. blowing the air directly on the water would make it way cheaper, more efficient and fast to build and setup. this way is just a waste of energy

  • this guy is gay lol

    

  • that just an air cooler.

  • put some ice in upper bucket...

  • does this work with hot water in winter

  • Will coolant work? And would it work better? Replacing the ice can be a hassle after a while...

  • @MrNinjers you would need a compressor and all the what-not's to make it work halfway effectively...

  • Then again what am I saying, there's a million ways to improve this concept.

  • ...or once all the water has flowed to the lower bucket, add ice to the lower bucket, shake it a bit and switch the buckets. Don't throw out the water! Save the planet! XD

  • This is a poor design.

  • or run the hose out of a window lol

  • i saw a better one then this and it was basically the same except you have one bucket but its actually a cooler and just have the water going in and out of that one cooler using a water pump, like the kind in a fountain

  • use a mini refrigerator. just drill 2 small holes in it, put water in it, and use a pump.

  • THEY call it redneck but its actually GENIUS!!!!!

  • put the aquariumpump in the toilet reservoir and the floater will keep the tank filled. No need to be thinking of water preassure coming from main lines.. F**k Africa and their water shortage.

  • Mamu ti jebem retardiranu unistio si snimak !!!

  • why does this guy say "1 word ghetto"?...then why are you watching the video? this is a great video an offers a solution to the heat...thanks

  • ONE WORD. GHETTO.

  • Could you hook up a thermostat to it?

  • Or you can take the bucket of room temperature water and cool it in the fridge and continue using it.

  • @revomusicman exactly what i thought immediately.....

  • you could use a small fish tank pump to cycle the water and use just one bucket

  • you look like Finn from Glee o_o

  • bullshit

  • siphoning style....

  • TIP: use black rubber tubes, black buckets with lids.

    If you plan for long term use, black rubber and black buckets with lid will prevent algae build up.

    Unless, you want to grow algae in your tubes...

  • safe to say having that in your dorm would be the ultimate birth control

  • @hypnos315 - What do you mean ? Why ?

  • @hypnos315 or the complete opposite since everyone would want to be in your room with the "AC"

    if it works

  • @dadygee amazing idea 

  • can you use more copper tubing instead of using rubber tubing??

  • You can get faucet adapters to allow you to drain-off a portion for a continuous flow, with the drain back into the sink. Wouldn't need much flow, either.

    College rules are pretty stupid at times, but it likely has something to do with sub-par wiring in the buildings - so keep in mind there is probably a reason.

  • MAKE IT RUN THROUGH UR FRIDGE O__O

  • Why not start from the center and get all the tubing on the grill?? and then hookit up to the main waterline and have a continous supply of cold water? :)

  • @dadygee considering most places don't charge for water usage, this is a great idea... I would just run the other line right back into the drain too LOL

  • @dadygee dorm freindly dude

  • great vid keep up the stubble

  • That's so awesome! Do you think a strong glue would work instead of hose clamps?

  • please tell me those arent supposed to become the intellectual elite.

  • You could use dry ice to cool the water.

  • what about pure gold tubing? gold can conduct heat and cold better.

  • @rotenburk uh... that sounds super cheap?

  • @rotenburk wtf? y dont spend all that money 2 get a portable ac instead.

  • @hellsperm666 Because they cost $300 or more?

  • @hellsperm666 u know that i was replying to @rotenburk right?

  • This is how north Korea's nuclear heads look like.

  • And it cools/the water lasts how long? 15-20 minutes?

    So you dump all that fresh water? Not too green.

  • you can reuse water, put some ice in it.

  • @tsbrownie A better setup would be to figure out hoe to recycle the water indefinitely. You could drain the hot water out, then use it to make ice cubes, then dump them in the first bucket, and just repeat the process.

  • @ClamCrunchy Yes, but if the refrigerator for making the ice is in the room, making ice will actually cause a net increase in heat in the room!

  • @ClamCrunchy The refrigerator would likely be in the kitchen, where the AC probably wont be run. The AC would probably be run in the living room, and if you're very serious about cooling your dorm, you could try to ventilate the exhaust from the frig to outside.

  • @tsbrownie he can use it again cause the water goes to the other bucket.

  • I used my chin stubble...

  • Ditch the 2 buckets and use one ice chest full of icewater and a little plug-in aquarium water pump.

  • Ice would help a lot too and maybe using a cooler and make a closed circuit system so you don't have to mess with buckets every 2 minutes and may B an electric fan pumping through the cooler with ice might work a lot better as well or you can buy it from cooler air that makes a unit to go into cooler if your lazy and don't want to make it! Enjoy the language cause after your out of school your going to realize most people that use it can't tie their shoes properly and means nothing anyway! :))))

  • Sounds like he's making a cool bong too me!!

  • it must be really sunny in there...

  • @mauigirl000 Have you ever discovered that heat can actually occur without sun? amazing I know

  • birth control wtf kinda birth control are you buying

  • @hesamonster he means an abortion.....

  • okay what am i doi ng wrong the dang thing is just blowing bubbles in the cooler please help!!!!!

  • what is it with these forced convection coolers? A/C is phase change and this is just a radiator (and a sad one at that). frankly you shouldn't even post a vid saying it conditions the air or even label it as a A/C unit, is it a substitute? sure, but not an A/C unit.

  • good idea

  • Use a small pond pump to transfer the the low side to the top, and use a couple of peltiers to chill the water. you could seal the system then and your good to go.

  • What a wast of water man use a pump.

  • You can just use the fan instead.....

  • a better way of circulating the water is by using a pump

  • And in real life, the ambient temperature would probably decrease by less than a couple of degrees - if that. It certainly wouldn't produce a 'freezing' room from that much water. If the water was frozen to start with (super chilled with salt), and the copper pipe had fins on it, and the water recirculated MAYBE I could see it dropping it a bit - but still no where near like an A/C unit would. I reckon the heat generated by the fan's motor would outweigh the cooling effect of the water.

  • @GitarStu that and you would soon run out of ice. and since dry ice and LN2 are expensive the only effective way would be to use a phase change unit (A/C) or a TEC setup, both of which still leave you with power consumption and heat dump to deal with. why not just get a windowless A/C unit?

  • or use a SMALL PUMP YOU WOULD PUT IN A AQUARIUM TO RUN THE WATER? AND THAT ONLY TAKES ONE BUCKET OF WATER.

  • why not use a pump to recirculate the water

  • What i wanna know is where we get these FREE $30 fans? All these tutorials assume you just happen to have these $30+ fans just sitting around. I would love to be able to also call 5 degrees cooler "freezing".

  • Wow, I hope that you are not going to college for engineering, chemistry, or physics.

    Probably political science, if I had to guess.

  • the problem with that style is that it produces a lot of condensation. you would be better to use a cooler to push air through it over the ice and then another fan to push the air around the room.

  • I wish fools would stop posting these things as advice.

    First and FOREMOST is that it WILL add moisture to the environment which just makes the "hot" air worse to bear. How people keep ignoring that fact is beyond me.

    Also the tubes will condensate (Assuming you weren't talking out of your rear end when you said they were cold which I personally doubt) which not only is a rust issue over time but they will drip causing damage unless you found a way to collect it.

    Silly, Ugly, Wrong.

  • why dont you just use the same buck so you dont have to waste that water so it goes back in the same bucket??????

  • im gona do the same thing but with a 4 inch fan :D

  • @MrAwesome10000 oh!... thats such a cute fan... where d'you had it?...

  • @MaeStified07 i got it from walmart it was 6 dollars 

  • so, why dont you just leave the bucket standing there to absorb the heat???

  • or you could swap the buckets and put some ice in it

  • zip tie gunz :3

  • You are a friggin genius!!!! I mean wow!! You must have an i q of at least 170.. Oh wait, you bonged "Like a 1000 bears" and ripped this idea off someone else. Good form sucking that hose though. Looks like your education is paying off.

    Just try to be yourself.

  • @SpecialEd0531 well, at least he tried to share what he have learned. (i'm not trying to pick up a fight though)... but let's just give him a break, and give him the benefit of the doubt --and the compliment too... God bless my friend... :-)

  • @MaeStified07 Your right.. I was having a bad day, and it appears that he is trying too hard to be cool. It just rubbed me the rong way. If he is like that all the time then I guess we can chalk it up to being young. Thanks for the reality check, and Peace of the Lord be with you!

  • @SpecialEd0531 no worries... i understand your situation. i tend to be like that whenever i have a bad day. most specially when i arrive home from my duty (hospital) i tend to think less... hehehe... Peace of the Lord be with you too my friend... Ü

  • Very little btu capacity in this set up. Even if connected to constant water supply, You would be limited to the temp of your water source. Consider a real AC system blowing 50 degrees in a 70 degree room. The only time I have 50 degree water from my tap is in the winter.

  • The one with the box fan and the aquarium pump is what you should be looking at...

  • @bitsyray i think this video suits for those who can hardly buy a pump... :-)

  • my water comes out of the faucet HOT...because I live in the desert.

  • @systemaddictshock i didnt know they had internet in the desert

  • @camsac  Its crazy with all that technology nonsense.

  • what a waste of time!

  • About how long does the water in a bucket that size last before you need more cold water?

  • the water must be CIRCULATING for it to be able to capture the cold coming from the wind blowing on the copper tubing. It cools it down little by little (not store heat...). And if u have the water circulating it only makes sense that the water is going to get colder and colder... right? right. and u dont have to take thermo dynamics to understand this... requirement is not being a dumbass

  • folks... it actually will SLOWLY cool small environments... but not by any substantial amounts. maybe a few degrees an hour? So basically if u open ur door once in a day... ur screw'n urself if this is the cooling mechanism of ur dwelling.

  • you are out of your rabid ass mind if you think that water is storing heat...

  • Air conditioner FAIL.

  • Really stupid  idea.

  • lmao this guy to funny and yea love this ac thing

  • good video. i'm in h.s. but still for my bedroom cause even w/ central ac it gets really hot in my room, and I also have a ceilingfan, but that, central ac, and floor fans don't cut it. :D

  • how many BTU/h does this thing achieve? 5?

  • WOW Amazing 

  • Copper tube cutters ftw -.-" like...$10

  • Heres a good idea... get a big bucket with icewater and do this same thing but have the runoff return to the ice bucket so you don't run out of water, and the cycle goes forever (or until the water becomes warm)

  • The room would get even colder if you add salt to the water. Salt would bring down the ice freezing temperature so the water will be colder.

  • what happens when that ball of spit clogs the tubbing?

  • I would add a fish aquarium pump to get the water back in the first bucket and take it from it to the other and keep them on the same floor.

  • @TheLobsterOfFate. Rotflmaool..roll on the floor laughing my ass off out loud

  • colleges wont allow air conditioning?

    but they will allow 2 buckets and a copper tubing fan of destruction

  • @TheLobsterOfFate HA! Yes...

  • @TheLobsterOfFate well can you imagine the utility bill for that college if they allowed every dorm to have a running AC all day?

  • @TheLobsterOfFate partly. *some don't allow it coz you have to make a hole/an opening on the wall/window where the the AC will be put to. :-(

    *the less expensive dorm (actually they're supposed to be called boarding/lodging houses but some owners prefer it to be called dorm coz it sounds more accomodating) ^_^

  • @TheLobsterOfFate this is great .this also can help save water.the used water can be used to flush the tolet or water the flowers or garden. thanks for your help

  • @hayworth111  o great ur environment friendy shit!!

  • So the water just keeps flowing from the cold bucket to the warm one after he sucked the air in?

  • @OrangeD00D Yes that's why the bucket is elevated and the pressure of the water itself pusher the water.

  • just use an ice chest filled with ice & water & a small pump to circulate the water through the copper tubing.

  • wow, thanks finnaly one that i dont need a pump for! :)

  • @cheesekake22 Yup! Way cheaper.

  • @hackcollege why dony you connect one hose to the dorm bathroom faut tourn on the cold water and put the other end out tin the shower drain its not like you are paying for the water there lol 

  • idiot..

  • dont forget about condensation!

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  • @hotaunt2 Why was your comment removed?

  • @TheChemist187

    I'm not sure? Guess they didnt like what i had to say about my results.

    Best i recall i had mentioned something about it did'nt work that well, but it did reduce the amount of the humidity. had A LOT of condensation.

  • man go get an aquarium pump from walmart and just use one bucket with some Ice water in it

  • How long did it take for the 5 gal of water to move to the empty bucket? Great job, I'm going to try this in my wood shop

  • Might work ok for places where the tap water is fairly cold, but that's not the case with a lot of places. Than again, those places probably have air-conditioned dorms anyway. Does your dorm room have a sink? If so, just plumb it so that you get the water directly from the faucet and have the warmer water output back into the sink.

  • why didnt you put the copper tubing inside the fan case  and just poke the ends out through the slits?

  • really nice video

  • Or you can use one bucket and leave a bag of ice in there and a couple of them in the feezer. When the water gose through the copper tubing it will fall back to the same bucket. Which will have ice and be cold. When it is not cold anymore change the ice.

  • Put the used water to good use. Turn the water off to your toilet and flush it with the used water.

  • This guy needs to resit thermodynamics course like 4x. Then a heat transfer course will allow you to calculate the needed amount of cooper, depending on the speed of the airflow and the room dimensions... and if you just wanna do it without any theory... I'm telling ya... you need 3x more cooper and a larger heat sink.

  • AND then spill water all over your dorm..Sweet!!!

  • just put 2 buckets in the fridge, and then one one gets warm switch

  • I want to punch this idiot so bad, I bet he is use to sucking hoses!!!

  • if we wind more coil,can we get a more cooler one for a large area???????

  • i believe you have to put a secondary copper tubing with his own pump and bucket.

    Beacuse water retunring to the bucket of the original copper tubing will be warm. So if you enlarge the tube your fan will cool just a bit and won't feel like having an air conditioner

  • you dont pay for water at a dorm do u? why not just hook one end to the sink and the other to a drain?

  • I made this, and trust me. You will need at least 10x more copper coiling than that for it to actually feel cool.

  • Maybe you didn't take thermodynamics... but you are an idiot.

  • No AC in my dorm, and i live in Texas. I need this

  • It's interesting that you say that you live in Texas and have no a/c because I hear this as a common complaint from people in Texas. I've lived in Texas and I thank God I no longer do because it is a backwards-ass place and even though the people are nice, the state as a whole is a dump.

  • niiiice. i am going to do that but with recurculating water. thanks a lot.

  • Thanks you guys rock I made one for my office using a fish tank water-pump to re circulate the water and Ice in the bucket of water. this works great!

  • so you have to like refill the bucket of water before it runs out and empty the other one constatnly?...

  • @TheGrilNextStreet Or you add an aquarium pump to the system and just use the same water with only one bucket!

  • @TheGrilNextStreet the smart idea would be to fill it with water and lots of ice. but that's just a thought.

  • @Spense9 Or you could be smart and pay a lot for a aquarium chiller that will if you get the right one get you're water down to 39F or lower.

  • @67tr876 the only problem with that is that the hot air used to cool the TECs or the condenser (read phase change unit) is being dumped into the same room as the cold air effectively making the idea null.

  • @agentx250 First look for you're chillers intake and Exhaust then put it in a box and vent it. build a door with a detatchable vent pipe if you need to get to the chiller put both pipes out the window. Make sure you drill holes for you're water pipes. PROBLEM FIXED !

  • @TheGrilNextStreet the smart idea would be to fill it with water and lots of ice. but that's just a thought. something else wise to do would be to replace the buckets with coolers.

  • I'm actually interested in this, not because I live in a shitty dorm, but because I live in a house with shitty insulation.

  • it's a pig's idea!

  • unpactical

  • AKA a siphon?...

  • Please post a video showing temps with and without that contraption.

  • Should give some credit to the original idea maker of this which he posted 5 years ago.

    w w w . gmilburn . ca/2005/06/15/geoffs-original-­homemade-air-conditioner/

    put the empty spaces together to view site.