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  • People are so stupid. Fans just circulate warm air, this is actually a COLD air solution.

  • Dumb loser

  • you could use a bog standered fan but all fans do is blow hot air around at a fast speed which makes it seem like it is cool but it isn't.

  • I built this, accidently froze my self to death, now i'm dead! thanks very much, you could have warned me about its extreme effectiveness.

  • Sweet!

  • SevenRyanShane would know cause he watches that.

  • I thought this was make your own hair conditioner untill i saw the fan ^____^

  • Does it work better putting the copper pipe behind or infront of the fan???

  • @jonny2k100 i think behind as the air gets cooled as it gets blown in but i am not sure

  • O.m.g. That's lame and stupid,

  • Just buy a fan.

  • I thought this said Hair Conditioner lol

  • Yeh mate, that copper alones gunna cost more than $40...

  • thumbs up if you are watching in 2011!

  • 0:48 "make sure it looks nice". Lol too late.

  • I think this is effective because under the same logic of water sitting under a tree of shade. and running into the sunlight there is a difference in heat transfer. slight but real. the water in the cooler is cooler. just because its in the shade to ake it even more effective.I think having a HUGE cooler filled with water would be way more effective because the amount of "cool" water would outway the amount of water in the exposed tubing. thats in the elements of heat.Wat if U used antifreeze?

  • How much for the Copper Tubing?

  • the narrator sounds like gil grissom

  • but what if the cold water become hot the i will buy a refr..or kike the fan

  • @ bridgetskittles stfu

  • Or you could just use the fan

  • over in america in summer it may be boiling

    but over here in england it rains if its summer or winter

  • oh wow didnt see your comment lemonrind... wow i just wasted my time writing a comment you already wrote

  • unless your freezer/refrigerator is out side you are not cooling anything except for maybe a while or so. remember the carnot cycle is only 40%-60% efficient so there for you are actually working your freezer/refrigerator harder thus making it hotter in your house. you got to throw the heat some where right? i mean your freezer/refrigerator doesn't just eat/destroy heat its a pump right?

  • ive always wondered what his house looks like? XD

  • So where do you get the ice from? The freezer? Making ice in your freezer actually heats up your room. In fact, the laws of thermodynamics means that you will always be heating up the room more than you are cooling it. So unless you are buying tons of ice from the store, this system won't work!

  • @lemonrind hi CAn yUO Makes thas VADDEeo PLAYs SLOWWER? at AS gOINg to FASST For MAh To PLAy ATTensin SO I can"nt Foloew teeh DAREACTIONS!!! D:

  • was this made with wax if it was would it melt?

  • Would you please give me the model and brand of the pump you purchased or advice on where I can find an alternative? I appreciate it, thanks.

  • dude wtf just put a fan behind a bowl of ice

  • I tried this and it didn't work...at all. Anyone know why?

  • @bobtheevilvillain because it sucks.

  • No offence but you have made this way more complicated than it needs to be.

  • or, for the 40 dollars you should have spend, you also could buy 4 in a store :D

  • I had an idea very similar to this, however I was thinking of using a bigger fan and do the following: Tap into a refrigerator/freezer that is already being used and run the copper pipe through either cold water in the fridge, or have them run through a block of ice in the freezer. I dont think it would rob too much heat from the fridge, and should work pretty well.

  • @jbbauer0 This will not work. The process of cooling the pipe transfers heat into the fridge. The fridge will then need to pump that heat back out into the room to keep the inside cool. In the process, the compressor in the fridge will generate additional waste heat. The result is that you will actually heat up your room even more. That is why all air conditioning units have to be exhausted to the outdoors, and why a fridge can never be used to cool a room.

  • efficiency guarantied 1%

    

  • LMAO!! Looks like you could have made a nice halloween costum out of all that. too funny. rofl

  • Swamp coolers are so mainstream. Peltier units FTW!

  • you could even get a wireless fan and take the air conditionor with you any where.

  • music sounds like a cheap porn lol

  • @SevenRyanShane how would you know

    

  • What happens if you used antifreeze for the coolant? Would that work better than ice water?

  • @Jasonsharonpoole Antifreeze isnt a cold substance. It just keeps things from freezing. Like that why u put it in a radiator Cause if u put water in there, itd freeze in the winter and your car wouldnt start

  • @mnight207 if u leave water it the radiator during the winter it will crack the engine block which causes it not to start u can run water in a radiator but switch it to anti freeze before winter!

  • @Jasonsharonpoole Everclear, salt and ice would be the best...cant freeze that stuff.

  • and..does it really work?

  • what if you just put those ice packs in the back of the fan and a bowl below to catch access water condensation

  • sure fucking hot as hell now

    

  • That copper tube is way more than $40 alone here in the US! New AC start as low as $99 bucks.

  • @acmav289 where do you live where copper tube is more than 40 dollars? I live in California and copper tubes are around 10 to 20 bucks

  • @361983200 I'm in riverside. what part of cali are you in? I should go over there to buy copper lol

  • Q/ GAMBIARRA!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @BloodstainedMErc lol ja tuurlijk staat ie altijd aan. Maar als de vriezer iets moet opwarmen gaat ie extra hard zn werk doen. Kost extra energie + je vriezer maakt extra warmte. Doch vriezer staat bijna altijd in andere ruimte dan je AC unit, dus punt van Arjanvanmaren klopt niet.

  • or just plug the fan in the wall and you're done!

  • or you can just buy one

  • DiY doesn't have to be too bad, exactly, i've made my own beamer, who blows simply on an sunny day, a nice and clear view. (about 150 inch)...

    how would this be effective with a pelier? and, what if you place the fan horizontal, in a case, so he can suck (mmm, bad english i think) hot air, and make a circuit of small computer fans, directly connected with a pelier, and blow it out on the other way (maybe in separate fan holes), to fill the room from different places?

  • you can actually buy a air conditioner with £50. Way better than this one

  • Het heeft totaal geen zin, want de vriezer moet ijs maken, dan komt er warmte via de achterkant van de koelkast de kamer in. Dus eigenlijk wat je doet is je verwarmt de kamer en je haalt de warmte deels weg?! -.- epic failure... En btw t is leluk

  • @Arjanvanmaren Vriezer staat toch altijd aan?

  • @BloodstainedMerc ja dus.. wat wil je daar mee zeggen... want het is daarom niet in eens efficient ofzo

  • ac can cost upwards of 50-60 a month whereas you can freeze and refreeze water in bottles or other to maintain coolness

  • I thought it said make your own conditioner. lol epic fail!

  • how does this work?

  • so the pump circulates the ice water and the fan blows the cool from the pipe. with that explanation ill make something else.

  • Lawl.... that will do nothing.. It will blow no different... Listen to the other guy.. just spend a little extra and buy an actual AC

  • dont work

  • THIS DOESN'T FUCKING WORK!!!! FUCK YOU TROLLIN' TROLL!!!!

  • Interesting...would this work in a 5k square foot house if one was placed in every room?

  • 40 dollars??? go to walmart and get a window unit for 90

  • It's worth noting that in really humid areas this will work far less - This is basically a cheap alternative to a swamp cooler, not a Freon based cooler like an air conditioner. This will work spectacularly for areas that get a dry heat, with capabilities of cooling the air around it from 20-30 degrees at around 10-15% humidity and providing some nice moisture. However, if you live in a humid area (say northwest PA, like I do) the most it'll cool the air is 3-5 degrees at 80% (average) humidity

  • Heyyy! the heat is on this summer tooo!!!

  • or a fan with ice in front..

  • Remember to put bucket in a bigger bucket because it is going to generate a whole lot of condensation water.

  • This is also much cheaper than using a radiator, unless you have one lying around...

  • This works! You just need to use it with the doors and windows closed in a room 4x4 meters. With a temperature out side of 28'C or 82.4'F for the Americans, one bucket of 0'C/ 32'F ice water will last you 1hr at 25'C/ 77'F for the room temperature.

  • i would attach a small radiator instead of that copper tube which would provide much more area for ice water to cool the air !!!!!!!!!!!

    u can get it from an old car.

  • Lol. This is so ghetto. It's like the experiment you try when you're 11 and you want to see what fruits or vegetables your penis will fit into.

  • @Lazarus65 Ghetto, you haven't seen ghetto...dude. Ghetto people wouldn't use this or make it even if their life depended on it. You obviously haven't been around the block that much and saying it's ghetto is just wrong. This is the foundation of what air conditioners are today.

  • @mriphone1000 This is not the foundation of air conditioners. What is shown in this video is not how air conditioners work at all.

  • @lemonrind What is shown is the bases of how an air conditioner works.

  • i nearly died while when i pluged the fan wire into the socket?

  • That is not a air conditioner.

  • @ATastyPeanut correct, it is merely an air cooler. but for your average joe it serves the same purpose,

  • any one know if PEX tubing would work just as well as copper?

  • how long will the ice in that size of a cooler last?

  • can you put liquid nitrogen in this as well?

  • Very cool, I made em out of old car rads

  • why not just drink the ice water? or splash it over ur head? (that will cool u down too!)

  • thats great for cooling 5 sq feet of your storage shed

  • @gsarjos Or a dorm

  • @gsarjos damn... my storage shed is 8 sq feet.

  • hahaahahhaoahaohoahoahoahoahoa­hoaoaoha ! xD

  • I made one of these but used about 10x more coil and it still worked for shit. If you want sweet cool relief, go by a $.10 Styrofoam cooler, fill it with frozen 2 liters, cut 2 holes in it and blow a fan through it.

  • That will condense like hell! 

  • lol make sure it looks nice

  • Enjoyed watching your video but you must be a tight arse buddy lol

  • IMHO you can also use a earthenware pot with water which will provide continuous suppply of cold water. Better still, keep an aluminium vessel (aluminum is the best heat exchanger after diamond) inside th pot. keep water in the aluminium vessel and fill the gap in b/w pot and vessel with beach sand (best or any mud) and fill that portion with water too.... You get a 24 x 7 DIY A/C.

  • step 1 :steal a portable air-cond

    See it doesn't even cost you

    If you get caught pass the air-conditioner to someone else

  • What if you use those reusable ice packs and water instead of using ice?

  • @gtrefghuk That works too.

  • @gtrefghuk good point i wonder if that will work?

  • @gtrefghuk or u can buy custom refrigerant XD

  • @gtrefghuk you get better result..

  • And if you want a heater just fill it up with boiling water.

  • Great

  • FALSE ADVERTISING!

    this is technically a swamp cooler and/or heat exchanger

    but even more accurately a radiator! But no, not an ac machine

  • @KingSlimjeezy not a swamp cooler. no evaporation is occurring. A similar method to this is used in hotels. a large h2o supply is circulated through the suites coils only back through a mechanically refrigerated chiller.

  • @KingSlimjeezy no man. swamp cooler is basically an evaporative cooler, meaning the heat absorbed from the air is used as latent heat to convert water into vapour. Here the heat is merely exchanged onto the water which merely increases in temperature (since ice cold water is being used).

  • And to think for the value which is twice that of this project I can get a real air conditioner that will cool up to a room and a half and not an area no more than that of 5 square feet which is probably over exagerating for this poor mans air conditioner.

  • @YourFreeToys Yes I understand the concept of this is to cool yourself in a localized area but the reality is that with the heat exchange whats it going to last... an hr, maybe two before you need more ice ?

  • Where do you get the ice water? If it is from your freezer in a part of your house you are trying to cool, then the net effect will be making your house warmer. If you buy ice from the store, then it will cool the room however so will simply leaving the ice on the counter. A person would be orders of magnitude better off simply buying an air conditioner.

  • @4256573 It's not for cooling down the house, it's for cooling down yourself.

  • "make shure it looks nice" ... XD

  • @RCNitroHelp101 yes i know.

    its just the gut said (kinda troll like) that this would never work it would if anything cool down the water. i replied to him telling him that this would definately work

    i do know about physics

  • @RCNitroHelp101 thats what i said.

    some guy thought this would cool the water :D

  • how did you get the intro?

  • That is the goofiest looking thing I ever saw.

    Sometimes goofy looking things work, though.

  • save the work and just put a fan infront of a bowl of ice....dumbest thing I have ever seen

  • wow very nice and easy I`ll try it.....thank you from Philippines

  • Great idea. The only thing you have to worry about are other white trash people coming to your house and steeling the copper pipe to cash in for drug money.

  • @StevenVerd you mean mexicans? 

  • @ghostcivic99 Where I live in Hawaii it's en epidemic among the mostly white or mixed Asian, crack heads. Or here they call it "ice". A couple years back they even stripped the copper wire from the freeway lights, so at night entire tracks of freeway were pitch black. Fun stuff!

  • @StevenVerd ^_^ ok, yeah we have the same problem here in Phoenix, az but its mostly the mexicans that do it. they break into abandond houses or while your vacationing and steal all that good stuff! lol

  • I've heard of people using these; they definitely work. When you run that ice water through the tube the water draws heat energy from it, and so to compensate, the tube sucks more energy out of the air passing across it.. However, I'd like to see this thing tested to see if it melts a cooler full of ice more quickly than leaving the lid off does. Or just pointing a fan into an open cooler of ice. Whichever way melts ice quickest is the one that cools best in the long run.

  • @SomewhatStaid ok your making this to hard on yourself. its same principle as your ac unit, copper tubing (+metal fins) with cold fluid runningthrough = cooler air whick can be made to pass through. lol all air conditioning is, is air being passed through a radiator of some sorts to cool the air.

  • That's actually not a bad idea. Styrofoam is a good insulator, however, if you really want to be intuitive, drill holes in a cooler and load it with alot of ice. seal around the copper tubing where it meets the cooler lid and you should have a longer supply of ice water. However -- this method reduces portability. My idea for this would to be to connect the power to a arduino chip and have the fan on / off be controlled by the temperature of the water OR water level (* melted ice = off *). Peace

  • A version of this actually worked when I went camping last summer... not bad!

  • just go down the mall

  • get some lab goggles first!

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  • on a hot day i always fill up a cup of ice, then blow into it while holding it up to my face to get a nice coold breeze

  • thats half a still for under $40 bucks lol

  • Okay so the action that that machine Is doing Is just cooling the water basically as the air passes through the pipes on the fan....meaning the only cooling of the air IS COMING FROM THOSE PIPES!??@@#!? By the way this looks It Seems it doesn't work and Is a big waist of time...

    I seriously doubt those pipes are cooling the air as they pass through...MORE that Its JUST cooling the water circulating through them...

  • @minimoose010 you proberly failed in science. -_-

    the pump is pumping 0 degrees C water through the tube. the room is lets say 30 degrees C. and you seriously think this would heat up the room (which it would have to, to cool the water, since cooling is taking the energy from the water and putting it into the surroundings).

    and YES it would cool alot.

    think CPU as the bucket, only here filled with hot water.

    this device seeks balance between the energy in the bucket and in the room period

  • FUCKIN hahahahahahahahahahahahaha , funniest thing iv seen all week, iv seen it all now

  • So naive, total waste of time. 

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  • @aNyThInGaLsoLike I am sure 0 people did maked it. But there are probably a few poeple that 'made' it.

  • why dont u just sell the copper and buy a real one

  • i just taped a bag of ice to my fan

  • how does it work?

  • Very neat and intelligent.

  • Neat video, but use a car radiator instead ;)

  • I thought this guy was making props for a Mad Max movie... If he scrapped all of that Copper tubing , he probably could afford a real air conditioner ;)

  • i kept hearing pomp......O.o

  • @Merasty70 but thats too boring and no fun.

  • @Kawasaski65 what?

  • i'm pretty sure you can just buy an air conditioner for 40 bucks these days.

  • what would you say the area is that this would cool off?

  • I can make my very own air cond??

  • ............in my next video, make your own continuous supply of ice, every 10 mins!

  • @darkstatehk Although you are right, but i did a similar unit with two peltier elements continuously cooling the water, So there is no need to have continuous supply of water. at all.. The peltier units are powered from the power supply of the fan, after adding a regulator.

  • or i could go out and buy a new AC unit for 50 bucks.

  • LOL :))

  • The container needs to be bigger, big enough to hold more ice and beer :)

  • so your making a swamp cooler....ok

  • why stop as ice water?

    fill it up with liquid nitrogen man

  • @YamamotoTenma Somehow I don't think the pump is made to sit in liquid nitrogen, let alone pump it XD

  • This is nothing compared to my DIY :Make your own PS3

  • @blackjet21 I made 3 PS3’s lol

  • If I use a square cooler...will I be able be able ta git this in a flower/pot-bed outside my trailer window? & what if my trailers lop-sided? It fell offa the bricks.The coolers gonna leak & the sucktions gonna dry up purdy fast wont it? Any more brain farts cause I need ALL the help I can get & will I be able ta hook this up ta my truck as well?Any ideas on how ta git it under my dashbord? 1 hand washes tha other,even tho we don wash much round here.ha ha.nailin up some sheets,gotta go. Earl.

  • wouldn't this be better for cooling the water in the bucket rather than cooling the air

  • So this is what the writers for MacGyver are doing now... making videos for YouTube.

  • why would you pay $40 for an inefficient cooler? for 100 bucks you can get an actual cheap ac unit from walmart. i recall seeing one for $99 one time. better still, you can find used ones all day long on ebay or craigslist for about 50, sometimes less. this is a terrible idea. the ice melts, and the thermodynamic efficiency of the copper tubing leaves much to be desired.

  • im leaving the intro was 2 lame kbye

  • just boring intro.