How to Build a Dorm-Friendly Air-Conditioner
hackcollege.com Kelly Sutton from HackCollege demonstrates how to build a dorm-legal air conditioner. For more content, visit HackCollege.com
hackcollege.com Kelly Sutton from HackCollege demonstrates how to build a dorm-legal air conditioner. For more content, visit HackCollege.com
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
or run the hose out of a window lol
This is a poor design.
…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
Then again what am I saying, there’s a million ways to improve this concept.
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…
does this work with hot water in winter
put some ice in upper bucket…
that just an air cooler.
this guy is gay lol
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
@hypnos315 or the complete opposite since everyone would want to be in your room with the “AC”
if it works
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.
@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.
use a mini refrigerator. just drill 2 small holes in it, put water in it, and use a pump.
If you keep the exhaust bucket in the same room, doesn’t the heat circulate back into the room?
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…
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.
@dadygee dorm freindly dude
that’s a waist of water
Save yourself $40 bucks and just use the fan.
Serious question. Has anyone actually tried this and can attest to it actually working?