Home made AC?

[Technoid]

It so hot that Im getting really crazy ideas!

What if I freeze water in botles and put a fan behind the blowing warm air at the Ice cold botles, wouldent that produce cold air?

Yes it would condence vater, might not be so bad as it would lower the humidity....

If I have something dry to "catch" the condensed water....


Now you have probably guessed that My brain is boiling....

[Dr Mordrid]

In the American southwest and west where hot & dry environments abound evaporative coolers are very common. They call them "Swamp Coolers";

http://www.jbmailroom.com/swamper/

If it's hot & wet swamp coolers are useless, so it's back to A/C

Dr. Mordrid

[Technoid]

Hmmm...

How do I check the humidity easy without expensive and hard to get equipment??

[Technoid]

anyway, will test my crazy idea anyway.
Just to have something to do with my heat stroked blown brain...

[Dr Mordrid]

Watch your local news/weather channel

Other than that you can check it with wet and dry bulb thermometers as demoed in most basic science classes;

http://www.uswcl.ars.ag.gov/exper/relhum.htm

If your basic science class didn't teach this then you need a new school system

Dr. Mordrid

[Gurm]

Err...

It's not "can I make an A/C that way", it's "will that A/C be hideously inefficient?"

And the answer is... sadly, yes.

- Gurm

[KvHagedorn]

Technoid, just break into the damned room and fix the fuse.. you are more than justified.

[Technoid]

Gurm:
The AC idea was for my own apartment and I already have a fan on almost 24/7 because of the summer and I't does work better than I had thought just with cold water....
And its better than nothing!

KvHagedorn:
Yeah really (Sounding like Ace Ventura )
To make the story shorter I said that the Fuse box was in another room, and to avoid awkward explanations.
The Shop I’m working in is a “Mom and Pop” shop (is that the correct term or am I wrong as always ) and my boss apartment is on the floor precisely above!
The AC was by some strange idea by the electrician put in the apartments fuse box!
I cant break into his apartment to change a fuse:

“But mister nice police, I was just going to change a fuse”

“Yeah, and do tell me that one about Snow white and the seven dwarfs…”

He has a very paranoid burglar alarm

But the look on anyone’s face if I did go at his door with an axe

And he’ll be home tomorrow after lunch…

And if it just is a little more windy we can get a really good cross draft, but today there was none

[borat]

i tried a similar thing 2 years ago an it didnt really do much bar leav a wet mess where the ice leaked how does proper ac work then?

[RichL]

I've never thought evaporative air-coolers were a good idea for places with lots of electrical equipment running.
All that moist air getting sucked into your computer and into your monitor...

[Wombat]

They're fine. Swamp coolers can't get the humidity here in Colorado up anywhere near the natural humidity in New Jersey. Besides, if you look at the operating ranges of your devices, they're usually good to 85% humidity or so.

[agallag]

The frozen water bottles wouldn't do you any good if your freezer is in the same apartment you're trying to cool. The freezer itself would produce more heat in cooling the water than you would get back by thawing it.

Ever stick your hand behind the fridge? Those coils are warm for a reason. That's all the heat that was originally in the contents of the fridge coming out. It's gotta go somewhere. (This is a very over-simplified explanation, I know). This is why window air conditioners have to have one side of them hanging out the window, it's so the heat can get out of the room.

It would probably be nice directly in front of the fan, but overall, you'd be adding heat to the room that way.

The swamp cooler works because it doesn't depend on frozen water, just liquid water that evaporates, bringing heat with it.

[Technoid]

Hm... the freezer dont seem to be able to produce more than -5 celcius...

The damn POS is ........