Well as an HVAC tech I have to say this would work in theory. Not sure exactly what the delta T would be infront and behind the fan. It would certainly be better with some form of aluminum finned type copper tubing. There's also the law of thermodynamics that energy cannot be created or destroyed... Which means the heat energy that exists within that room is simply being transferred into the cooler. Heat is energy that moves to something cooler... So the real question is how long will it take this contraption to cool the garage before the cooler itself has absorbed too much heat and the water is now just as warm as the room? It realistically cannot change that heat energy into something cooler. it can only be transferred from one place to another.
I would think the answer is....that while the ice cubes in the cooler are cooling the room but melting ...and moving from cold to warmer, the ice trays in the fridge are freezing water and a manual refresh of ice cubes is added to the cooler again, so that this ultimately has less environmental impact than a throw away portable and also keeps you physically fit cause it gets you off the "couch" by having to periodically replenish the icecubes? This system while crude seems cheap to maintain and is very simple a answer, my question is, just how good is the heat/cool exchange of the copper pipes, and you've already touched on this....so the quick anwer to your question is fresh ice cubes go in the cooler periodically.
I HAVE DONE THIS AND WOULD NOT RECOMMEND. I built something very similar to this. 20' of 1/4" copper tubing coiled predominantly around the central bit (as I discovered on my older fan that the center moved the majority of the air) of a 20" box fan and a 12V 240L/H pump. I used 2 large re-freezable icepacks and 1 gallon of fridge water in a 2 gallon cooler. It produced air that was about 10F colder for ~15 minutes. Mechanically everything worked perfectly, but this design simply doesn't last long enough to be worth $100, which is roughly what I spent, too. I was trying to use this to escape another Californian heat wave, but it sadly did nothing but steal a large portion of my day.
You forgot the cost of $100 per hour for the ice. Instead you should get a small fridge and put a copper heat exchanger loop in there that runs through the fridge and freezer part connected to the heat exchanger on the fan. That would be dope ass.
Or you can find a used or cheap new AC unit for around $100 (especially if you're smart and try to buy one in the off-season like spring or late fall).
Great insight into the build just subscribed and it’s a nice compact turbine I also have built a homemade 650 watts wind turbine, a treadmill motor turbine and a little but powerful ametek 30v turbine and built 2 diy solar panels, be careful in high winds one of my first turbines blew up 😕and now have only 2 wonderful turbines working daily 😊it’s very satisfying watching those things working, keep up the good work buddy 👍
Buy an a/c unit and put heat OUTSIDE instead of INSIDE YOUR HOUSE. Your freezer expells heat into your house to create that ice ya know? If your freezer is in the garage, well, uh... you only make it hotter in the long run.
Some people don't have that option easily. My garage has no windows. I could add a window but it would cost hundreds of dollars. Also my freezer isn't in the garage.
Hey, you have forgot to measure the Temp. (for us) after installing this device....! Or could you put at the very end of the video like a subtitle that info. Please. Thnx :)
An enclosed cooling system like this is much cheaper to operate than a typical AC unit..I like it because it doesn't have the humidity problems that a swamp cooler brings into the mix.. As for ice you can freeze 1/2 gl. milk jugs and keep them on hand to reuse on a daily basis and swap the "spent" out with fresh jugs..Yes I do that with just a fan and an aluminum pie pan..Its not the "most" convenient.. its limited by the amount of cooling capacity.. but if you have a freezer of frozen water jugs it will cool things down for only the electrical cost of operating a submersible pump, box fan, and freezer
Yeah there is not enough surface area on the copper pipes for heat transfer. A better method would be to make an imersion chiller with the copper pipe, stick it in the ice water, and connected it to a heat exchanger. See desertsun02 videos
A few years ago I built an AC based on the same principle as this one. I uead a 1 sq foot solid block of Ice in my chest then filled it with cool water. It cooled great for about 12 minutes, then the heat was transfered to the water. The Ice block completely melted and the water heated up. In less than 45 minutes, my Ice Chest AC unit was pumping out air that was just as hot as the room air. It is very impracticle. If you can transfer the Heated water away from your room, this would work. For example, get rid of the Ice Chest and Draw your water from a pond or stream that has cool water during hot days. Have the system return the water to the source, then you have successfully removed the heat from your space. This kind of system would work.
We cooled a shop on a farm using a water well that filled an irrigation pond. From the well the water was pumped through a couple semi radiators with box fans attached. We had to have a drip tray below the fans because of condensation.
@@xnviper3631 I'm no expert but I've seen plenty of comments on this video ruclips.net/video/I9Td5uMB_vQ/видео.html on why using dry ice is a terrible idea, even fatal.
Yeah I did this design.. it worked a lot longer than 45 min.. the ice melted after about 4 hours but I had about 3-4 feet of coiled copper buried in ice inside the chest circulating the water in addition to coil on the fan. It kept that water freezing cold.
This is a space heater when you consider the for the fridge to make the ice, it had to extract heat from water and pump it out into the room from the back metal tubes, and fan spinning and water pump actually create heat too
Not much if the room is a typical size or the temps outside are high..all these gadgets are neat but not worth the money spent. just get a air conditioner...
Probably wouldnt really lower the temp of the whole garage but if you have the fan pointing towards where youre working i bet it feels better than just normal fan blowing. Also this dude is dumb for buying ice you should freeze water in some gallon jugs or something and re use it 👌🏻
I installed a solar powered garage vent fan. It sucks the air out of the garage creating airflow which lowered my garage temp by at least 30*. Cost me 15$ at HomeDepot. More cost efficient and runs itself for free when it's hot out. Plus this is 100$ plus the cost of ice, water, electricity each time you run it...
@@matthewcastle3364 Works as long as there is cooler air outside to pull in. Best is to insulate entire garage first; cement floor will act as a heat sink to cool the space; adding REAL A/C will complete the job.
I was going to suggest the same thing :) also in the attic space. a fan that would exhaust the hot air from the garage would make it more comfortable as well
Imagine ending the video showcasing the temperature difference/drop? That woulda been nice. Which makes me wonder if this really had any effect at all besides what a traditional say vornado fan does, lol
It would have been nice to see the comparison between the before and after on the fan. It will surely be cooler after the fan contraption is built. What I like is you could at the end of the day take the melted water in the cooler and freeze it over night. Moreover, yo might actually be able to bury the cooler somewhere and pump the water from there. The ground typically keeps a natural temp of about 50 degrees. It is a cool project and is meant to keep things cool for a short amoutn of time.. Maybe insulate your garage door as well.
I agree that the first thing you should have done was insulate the garage door. Easily done with foam adhesive and foam board. For ice, use gallon milk jugs or 2 liter soda bottles filled with water and frozen. Will last far longer than ice cubes. And as this is now 6 years later, the cost is closer to $200 not counting the door insulation.
I once had a similar situation. First and most importantly you must insulate the garage door. In my case, I was able to use 1/2 inch thick Styrofoam sheets that dramatically cut down on the heat transfer. I then utilized a portable air conditioner that only required a small opening to vent out the hot air. My method cost about $300 but on a 100° day I could cool this garage down to 75°.
So he spends $100 for a DIY air conditioner which btw who knows if its safe and works well... I can get a decent air conditioner from Cook Bros for $99 😂😂😅 and can fill my room to 60° which is pretty chill... can this do that? But I guess it was a fun project
Purchased: August 2023 - still works GREAT!I ruclips.net/user/postUgkxxsUnXhGsSJLim_XnMHyQK0u3XVaW-CGn live in a studio and during the summer it gets scorching hot - really old building with no ac units. I can’t express how EASY it was to install. This unit has been a life savior during the summer and some days during other seasons where it can still be a bit warm at night. In this small place is my friend, a husky, poodle mix and myself. We need AC - lolI don’t use the dehumidifier option - I’m not sure if it will leak in my house, since I did not install the small draining hose that came with it. May look into it late but I don’t worry about much humidity in the apartment. I don’t understand why the negative reviews since all things mentioned, I personally did not find issues with. Definitely worth it!
I used to have a shop next to an ice plant. It had two big ice machines that ran all day long and expelled about 5 gal a minute of very cold water (about 38 to 42 usually) with all the minerals left over that didn't freeze into ice. I ran it into a igloo cooler and pumped it into the building and through a a/c cooling coil with 4 rows of tubes. It got clogged with scale after a few months and started leaking. I built a cage of stainless tube and ran a 4 tube manifold system that worked pretty well. It wasn't like ac but it was cheap and it got the temp down to 76 some mornings in my 2000 sf shop. As for a cooler full of Ice I don't think it would effectively cool a small closet with a 20 pound bag of ice and a few feet of copper tube. You don't have enough cold (BTUs) and you don't have enough coil to move any cold. The ice will work great for the first few minutes but if you are in a hot place you would do better to put wet rags on your head and arms and keep beer cold as you can in the cooler. I also used to get hundreds of pounds of ice that I would do into my cooler cage and run the fan with that. I have melted tons of ice with a box fan in my days. A cooler full of ice is a few dozen BTUs an hour. The cooling is psychological.
There's a couple of reasons why this is better for a garage / enclosed space: Window AC units stick out through a window, or hole in the wall for two purposes. There is accumulated water which needs to drip somewhere, and the heat exchanger needs to exhaust air outside (otherwise it would completely negate the cooling, if not cause /additional/ heat) Those portable units have the same requirements, though usually a bit easier to deal with, if you have a window (but then, why not just get a window unit?) Portable units have 2 things over window units: usually less power draw (so no dedicated circuit, or worry of overloading a circuit) - and they're, well, portable - meaning you can move them around within the room, or to other rooms as needed. A home made swamp cooler (which Ben created here), requires neither an exhaust port nor dripline, and is portable. It also requires much less amperage than either AC unit. The downside is that this will cool a small area barely to humane levels in those temps. This is a good design, if for temporary / non-permanent use. For a more permanent solution, this can be scaled up to a buried 55 gallon plastic drum, automotive radiator, and a single motor to run a spindle pump and fan unit. Burying the barrel to a depth of about 4-5 feet (the bottom) will allow the water to cool off better, as ground temps are usually stable at much lower temps. Using a stable liquid, this can be left in service for a long time. I wouldn't use water alone for this. Possibly automotive coolant as an additive and stabilizer if not something else. I've seen homesteader plans for using PVC pipe buried in the ground, in a U shap. One end is outside of the home, with a capped T on sideways - the top being capped and used for cleanout purposes, and the side with a screened off elbow for air intake. The other end is inside, with a blower fan pulling air in. The pipe has to be long enough, and deep enough for the air passing through to be cooled off. This isn't usually something suitable for suburban settings though. So... his homemade swamp cooler, even being $100, is a better use for his purposes. And, it'd made a great power-outage cooling system, running on a generator or battery system.
Great video! I'd like to know the ambient temp as well. Also how well it works with just water as water has a good heat absorption threshold. Also I'd be curious to know how much energy it uses over all as this is a great build! Thanks for the video! We appreciate you!
Ok. Well for 100 I’ll be buying an air conditioner. I wanted to see the temperature difference and for some reason that wasn’t included after the build and presentation.
OK, I had HIGH hopes for this cooler. The theory sounds great, and I was hoping it would really cool the air. Nope. It sucks. My apologies to the people I replied to about their comments on here, I tried it and it DOES NOT WORK! I even filled the cooler almost full of ice, and you can't tell a difference in temperature 3 inches away from the fan and coil. Don't waste your time or your money. Go get the portable unit from Lowes or Home Depot.
This is literally a DIY swamp cooler which is just way over thought up. If he took the ice and put it in a strainer over the bucket but in front of the Fan it would have had a much greater effect.
@@BenjaminSodos A swamp cooler works by evaporating water to lower the air temp. It also will raise the humidity. That is fine in an area where the humidity goes low but not so well in an area where the humidity is above 80%. I actually built one and added it to our central air unit here in southern Florida. When the humidity is low, the water temp is about 10°+ cooler than the air temp. 6 to 8 when the humidity goes up. But the air coming out of the condenser unit also even after picking up the heat from the house is the same as the incoming air. So they can work. 90° day and 90% humidity and the water might be at 82°-84°. As the fan has to run anyway, the only added electrical use is the water pump to circulate the water. Which mostly is water ( condensate ) from the A/C unit and from the dehumidifier in the house.
Ben Tardif - " I will make whatever you guys ask me to and whatever I come up with so you guys watch my videos and I make money. You can make fun of my inventions all you want, I don't care. Just watch my videos please."
it might work better if you put the copper on the other side pulling out air thru the coil is the only way to get rid of hot air, anti freeze would be better. law of refrigeration, remove heat. if he did it all with dc power it might help when you lose power
Good work Ben! These people who are quick to complain should be more supportive and constructive in their comments. Why others feel they have to tear people down is perplexing. So how many of you who made snide comments have a youtube channel? How many videos have you all made? Keep building and keep posting Ben, you always have my support . The way we get better is by sharing ideas and thoughts without the fear of ridicule.
brufadeve and one more thing I see alot of these negative comments your talking about and some of them don't even know how to spell which is funny. I loved this video
put a metal plate in front of the fan. use the laser thermometer to measure the temperature of the metal plate. it's not terribly difficult. and there's no reason to be insulting to someone else the way you were.
Is that why they use them in the A/C industry? lol. Ya I know, they take the temp of the vent, but you could put something in front of it. PLUS he had a GINORMOUS thermometer!
How well did it cool off the garage itself? I know it would feel amazing on a hot day standing right next to it, but if I'm working on the garage in different positions (above the engine, under the engine, under the back of the car etc) it would be kind of a nuisance to move the fan and cooler around. I'd like to do something like this but wall mounted.
Excellent idea to waste a 100$. Also well done on ruining a perfectly fine cooler. You could have just bought a small/medium sized window AC unit for 100-110$ .. for the argument of AC's energy/power consumption here's my counter argument - amount of energy used to make the ice in your freezer for refilling the cooler, might be even more than the power consumed in an actual Small AC unit. Anyway just my opinion, you don't have to agree with me. Cheers!
It will make the room hotter. The tap water will warm up, get pumped into a cooler where it will stay warm, then only warm water will get pumped through the pipe. In addition, the fan and more so the pump, will be creating heat. This means an overall gain in temperature.
Nothing against the creator of this video, but just so you guys know (not that it should come as any surprise), but this entire build was basically a waste of time and money, and doesn't actually cool the air any more than the fan and cold water and ice alone would have. I can see how some people (primarily amateurs, to be frank) might think something like this would work, though....
that's exactly what i realized when i was watching the video. he says in the video 'the less holes the better'. oops! no, the *more* holes the better. he's using the cooler and 'less holes' to slow the heat exchange between the inside and outside while at the same time, built an elaborate system to do just the opposite. yikes! when we realize this, i was thinking, why doesn't he just blow air with a fan across a cooler of ice water? and for the same cost he could buy 4 coolers and 4 fans.
What about the cost of ice every time you use it? I didn't see that on the price list. And I would have started with insulation in the garage door. You should also use twice as much copper tubing./// Come to think about it , just open the garage door.
His main purpose was to have as much viewer as possible to get 1,000,000% ROI from his $100 investment. You have to dig deeper to what these RUclipsrs are doing to their YT contents for financial gains. We call it easy money! You don't see him replying to any comments, he is there sitting and laughing to the bank.
It's just so weird that so many people don't know about the freezer compartment in their own refrigerator. GOTTA BE foreigners where refrigerators are like a brand-new commodity in their market. Now they just need a sewage system. LOL
People laughing on his idea. Just imagine u leave somewhere hot where for 5 to 6hours you ain't got no electricity but with this and a small battery it can change your life.
it will blow cool air until the ice melts. Then it won't blow cool air... Go to Walmart and buy their cheapest window unit air conditioner. You may have to enlarge or build a window large enough for the air conditioner in the garage's door though. And while the window unit will increase your electricity bill somewhat, a 5,000 BTU unit will consume less than a 15,000 BTU unit...
@Drakilicious This technically isn't a swamp cooler, and actually works like an actual A/C without the compressor or refrigerant. I wrote a longer reply explaining the difference here, if you care to read it. Swamp coolers blow moist air over damp pads or cloth, which cools the air. Unfortunately, the blown air is mostly cool moist air, which is bad for cooling in most non-desert climates. A/Cs cool and dehumidiy air by blowing the air over cold coils, which dehumidify by condensing the water vapor from the air and draining the condensate away. However, these coils aren't in the best setup to adequate drain the condensate away and might remain moist most of the time (at least for the lower coils). Therefore, the system might inadvertently act as a swamp cooler.
@@lylaaxiom8750 A/Cs need to be sized appropriately for the room size because they also dehumidify the air, and not just cool the room. You don't just buy a larger sized unit (one with more BTUs) because it can cool faster and more efficiently. An oversized unit will cool the room too fast before it can properly dehumidify the air. Once the room gets cold enough, the A/C will stop cooling, and the cold cooling coils are (typically) the only way for the unit to continue dehumidifying the air. So to continue drying the air with an oversized unit, the cooling mode needs to stay on, which will then make your room too cold. I wrote a longer reply for this video if you care to read more about this topic.
I'm in the New Orleans. It gets insanely hot here and humid. I made one of these earlier for about $80. I think I got a smaller pump but perfect for this. It's made for 3 foot fountains. It may be from the humidity but my copper line condensates like crazy. I had to make a hole for it to drip into.
I did this with a smaller cooler. One thing I will say is that you don't need a lot of water. Just enough for the pump to recycle it through. You have to really pack it with ice. Otherwise it will melt really fast and the water going through the tubing will start to get warm. That's the key. PACK IT with plenty of ice.
i will give the only positive feed back on here looks like... great job for trying young man..trial and error.. makes a smart person.. Im glad you had the effort to try something out for yourself. good job.. I love to hire people like you.. self go gidders..little southern slang there.lol
@@Jaybird805 it will work, but he goofed on his heat exchanger design. The copper coil doesn't have enough surface area to transfer heat to the cold water all that effectively.. using an old car radiator would have worked better.
@@Chaddz3 Ja, which is why window A/Cs have lots of thin find on their evaporative coils. On the plus side, this is one of the few DIY air conditioners that's at least close to how an actual A/C works, and not just a glorified swamp cooler.
I built one for less than $50 basically the same but used items I had on hand. I used a fish tank pump. The pump was about $11. The most expensive item for me was the copper tubing. Worked great.
We made this to help keep our tech's cool when working in attics. The air coming out the fan is marginally cooler. Barely noticeable. The attics average about 116 degrees. This thing did nothing to cool it. What it did do, was create a TON of condensation water. You cant operate this thing without a drip pan that needs to be constantly emptied
If you run a heating and cooling company and attempted this you need to find a new trade. We're you surprised it created a lot of condensation while being used I'm an attic? So fucking stupid
@@coryryder9070 yeah we made a way better one with a powerful pump. But it doesnt matter. It doesnt work very well. We strapped a pan to the bottom of it with a drain tube. But its just not enough cooling capacity to make a difference.
@@MJC-he3zt No, we weren't surprised, we were prepared for condensation. But to us it was worth a try on the chance that it could possibly help. Too bad you think we are "stupid and should find a new trade". But we think we will stay in business since we are excellent at what we do. Its ok to try new things ya know. Thats how greatness is achieved. Have a peacefull day.
Every thing is perfect in this video, the only thing he didn't show us the temperature before and after so that we can see the real difference and it is worth it or not .
What you have is a good project for a kid in science class, since you can buy a real one-room window-unit A/C for about $100, and you don't have to add ice. Good video though. Just find a better project.
Great video tutorial. Although in my experience, I’ve tried something similar to this and it does work for a personal air chiller but it will definitely not cool off a hot room. For the money, invest in an inexpensive portable window AC. You can find them for about $125-$250. (Buy them in the winter months and you’ll save more money.) If you buy a window unit, they’re usually cheaper.
He seems like a real nice guy but before making videos learn some basics - that was a coping saw not a hacksaw and hose clamps not pipe clamps 2. Anthony Sambataro brings up a good point so we know if it cooled off the room or do you have to sit in front of it which not much work is getting done in your shop. 3. Design a Misting system for the garage door and install some insulation on the inside of garage door 4, Overall design in theory is possible but not effecient where more surface area of the tubing is needed to match the amount of air blowing across it. If you were able to baffle one person with your brilliance to make one then mission accomplished but I reccomend removing the video
Not an AC. Just a cooler. At some point ice will melt, water will come to same temperature as environment. No cooling after that. Very unaffective way.add a compressor of some sort. Use coolant. Reduce pump size, . for roughly 20 bucks more. It wouldn't d also need a container so big..
At time marker 2:59 you refer to a coping saw as a hack saw. These are two very different saws and each serves their purpose. Because if you had an actual hack saw you would have never been able to make that cut for the power cable. Just wanted to share that with you, and I am also not trying to knock your video in anyway either. In fact I love this video you made, and also shared with us! Keep up the great work!
@@DC... So, if I got your point right, this guy is producing ice without using AC ? ? ... Generating cold use energy somewhere, no matter how you do it. If he buys ice at the convenient store, he is not using AC, but the store uses AC to make ice... and charge him twice the cost for this...
@@jnb8918 Dust Cloud is saying he is paying for the freezer to run and keep his food cold anyway. So putting some water in it to freeze into ice is not costing you any extra.
Well as an HVAC tech I have to say this would work in theory. Not sure exactly what the delta T would be infront and behind the fan. It would certainly be better with some form of aluminum finned type copper tubing. There's also the law of thermodynamics that energy cannot be created or destroyed... Which means the heat energy that exists within that room is simply being transferred into the cooler. Heat is energy that moves to something cooler... So the real question is how long will it take this contraption to cool the garage before the cooler itself has absorbed too much heat and the water is now just as warm as the room? It realistically cannot change that heat energy into something cooler. it can only be transferred from one place to another.
@Jason Sincerely enjoyed and appreciated your science, I learned something. Did ya have to pee on the party though? 😋😜
I'm inclined to trust your opinion as an HVAC tech, because this was all greek to me. Impressive though, but you would know whether this works or not.
I would think the answer is....that while the ice cubes in the cooler are cooling the room but melting ...and moving from cold to warmer, the ice trays in the fridge are freezing water and a manual refresh of ice cubes is added to the cooler again, so that this ultimately has less environmental impact than a throw away portable and also keeps you physically fit cause it gets you off the "couch" by having to periodically replenish the icecubes? This system while crude seems cheap to maintain and is very simple a answer, my question is, just how good is the heat/cool exchange of the copper pipes, and you've already touched on this....so the quick anwer to your question is fresh ice cubes go in the cooler periodically.
so just put it in a window?
@@raillanmcneill8401 sir.... It's literally elementary school science...
I HAVE DONE THIS AND WOULD NOT RECOMMEND. I built something very similar to this. 20' of 1/4" copper tubing coiled predominantly around the central bit (as I discovered on my older fan that the center moved the majority of the air) of a 20" box fan and a 12V 240L/H pump. I used 2 large re-freezable icepacks and 1 gallon of fridge water in a 2 gallon cooler. It produced air that was about 10F colder for ~15 minutes. Mechanically everything worked perfectly, but this design simply doesn't last long enough to be worth $100, which is roughly what I spent, too. I was trying to use this to escape another Californian heat wave, but it sadly did nothing but steal a large portion of my day.
Dude, that's not a hacksaw, that is a coping saw. 😂
I was going to say the same thing and looked through to see if someone else noticed. Cheers, Mike.
I guess he has to COPE with it...
One thing you probably should have spent that one hundred bucks on was some insulation for the garage door keep the heat out.
I love this home air conditioner.
The cost between a medium size ac and this fan& pump is bye fare a huge bill cutt!! I believe that's the whole purpose with these homade ac's.
If you install a good expansion valve before the pipes then use multiple pipes then it would cool beyond expectations
I felt the heat hit me when he removed his hat 🤣
Dude, chop that thing down in summer, TRUST ME
You forgot the cost of $100 per hour for the ice. Instead you should get a small fridge and put a copper heat exchanger loop in there that runs through the fridge and freezer part connected to the heat exchanger on the fan. That would be dope ass.
you need a much longer lenght of tube submerged in the container.
i know this video is old but, to insulate better the lid, use great stuff foam, the ice would last longer.
Or you can find a used or cheap new AC unit for around $100 (especially if you're smart and try to buy one in the off-season like spring or late fall).
Great insight into the build just subscribed and it’s a nice compact turbine I also have built a homemade 650 watts wind turbine, a treadmill motor turbine and a little but powerful ametek 30v turbine and built 2 diy solar panels, be careful in high winds one of my first turbines blew up 😕and now have only 2 wonderful turbines working daily 😊it’s very satisfying watching those things working, keep up the good work buddy 👍
I like that homemade look. Good Job.
How's it working now? Any updates or improvements?
A perfect still.
Oddly some things cost about the same as you making them yourself, I try making everything I use but I find sometimes it’s cheaper to buy it
The problem is you need to keep adding ice. You might as well fill a bucket with ice and put a fan over it. Same effect less work.
Buy an a/c unit and put heat OUTSIDE instead of INSIDE YOUR HOUSE. Your freezer expells heat into your house to create that ice ya know? If your freezer is in the garage, well, uh... you only make it hotter in the long run.
Some people don't have that option easily. My garage has no windows. I could add a window but it would cost hundreds of dollars. Also my freezer isn't in the garage.
Does it make a difference if the coil was in front of the fan or behind?
You can get used window AC for $50.
The fan looks cooler
so what if i put refridgerante in the cooler tube, then what it needs to be heated up?
Why not add some peltier cooling?
What if you used freon rather than water... granted I have no idea what I'm talking about or if this is even possible lol just curious
Should use salt water for colder water and a salt water pump.
What do you do about the hot humid air condensing on your tubing?
I'll give it an "A" for effort.
You forgot to do a temp check ?
My man just made a radiator in his garage.
Amazing 🤩
This is not ment to cool a room down, just to cool you down if you sit in front of it
AC unit from lowe's a cheap one.... Save yourself extra $25 and get one for $75
AC more likely to break easily .
@@underdogtv2855 yes, the one in the vid I would say it would do that. ;)
Hey, you have forgot to measure the Temp. (for us) after installing this device....! Or could you put at the very end of the video like a subtitle that info. Please. Thnx :)
we wanna seethe temperature testing after your homemade ac unit runs in the garage
WAITING 😉
Waiting still
Yes!! I expected to see the Temps after you built this! What the f*ck is up with that??
Still waiting
Yes 🙌
You built an ice melting machine for almost the price of a small AC unit 🤣
@ProBannedMiner25 and how much are you going to keep spending on ice
@ProBannedMiner25 right. So now you're paying to make the ice you want to melt and for your other air conditioner to cool off your kitchen
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An enclosed cooling system like this is much cheaper to operate than a typical AC unit..I like it because it doesn't have the humidity problems that a swamp cooler brings into the mix.. As for ice you can freeze 1/2 gl. milk jugs and keep them on hand to reuse on a daily basis and swap the "spent" out with fresh jugs..Yes I do that with just a fan and an aluminum pie pan..Its not the "most" convenient.. its limited by the amount of cooling capacity.. but if you have a freezer of frozen water jugs it will cool things down for only the electrical cost of operating a submersible pump, box fan, and freezer
WELL HE IS JUST SHARRING HIS IDEA LOL.... 😎😎😎😎😎😎 LETS BRAVO HIM...😍
Recently had some time on my hands, and most of the materials to try this, knowing going in that it was likely a waste of time. I was right. useless.
Yeah there is not enough surface area on the copper pipes for heat transfer. A better method would be to make an imersion chiller with the copper pipe, stick it in the ice water, and connected it to a heat exchanger. See desertsun02 videos
A few years ago I built an AC based on the same principle as this one. I uead a 1 sq foot solid block of Ice in my chest then filled it with cool water. It cooled great for about 12 minutes, then the heat was transfered to the water. The Ice block completely melted and the water heated up. In less than 45 minutes, my Ice Chest AC unit was pumping out air that was just as hot as the room air. It is very impracticle. If you can transfer the Heated water away from your room, this would work. For example, get rid of the Ice Chest and Draw your water from a pond or stream that has cool water during hot days. Have the system return the water to the source, then you have successfully removed the heat from your space. This kind of system would work.
Would putting hot ice be better
We cooled a shop on a farm using a water well that filled an irrigation pond. From the well the water was pumped through a couple semi radiators with box fans attached. We had to have a drip tray below the fans because of condensation.
Should have used dry ice or liquid nitrogen
@@xnviper3631 I'm no expert but I've seen plenty of comments on this video ruclips.net/video/I9Td5uMB_vQ/видео.html on why using dry ice is a terrible idea, even fatal.
Yeah I did this design.. it worked a lot longer than 45 min.. the ice melted after about 4 hours but I had about 3-4 feet of coiled copper buried in ice inside the chest circulating the water in addition to coil on the fan. It kept that water freezing cold.
Next video: How to make a space heater using a match and firewood. Stay tuned.
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u made my day i so needed a laugh like that
Lmmfao
This is a space heater when you consider the for the fridge to make the ice, it had to extract heat from water and pump it out into the room from the back metal tubes, and fan spinning and water pump actually create heat too
You would use this this as a heater if you heated the water instead of cooling it
I'm curious the temperature difference with this, would have liked to see that digital thermometer do a before and after
Not much if the room is a typical size or the temps outside are high..all these gadgets are neat but not worth the money spent. just get a air conditioner...
Probably wouldnt really lower the temp of the whole garage but if you have the fan pointing towards where youre working i bet it feels better than just normal fan blowing. Also this dude is dumb for buying ice you should freeze water in some gallon jugs or something and re use it 👌🏻
@@banehogs5589 It's basically re-engineering the old school version of putting a block of ice in front of a fan.
Well Water with ice will only my get up to 32 degrees so I’m 5 degrees f cooler than the garage temp
@@banehogs5589 Did you have to call him dumb to make your point?
For pretty close to the cost of that, you could buy a real AC unit.
MrDgwphotos yep with tax only 109.99 for the extra 10 you can be lazy.
All depends on the size of the room to be cooled. $100 units won't cool much.
MrDgwphotos and those A/C Units will jack up your Electric Bill
not to mention the constant purchase of ice. If you make the ice at home your house ends up getting warmer
Raul Cipriano me personally... I'm actually looking into buying a legit icemaker found one from a gas station for 100$
Put some styrofoam insulation in your garage door and this will help reduce the heat transfer into your garage.
I installed a solar powered garage vent fan. It sucks the air out of the garage creating airflow which lowered my garage temp by at least 30*. Cost me 15$ at HomeDepot. More cost efficient and runs itself for free when it's hot out.
Plus this is 100$ plus the cost of ice, water, electricity each time you run it...
@@matthewcastle3364 what solar fan at home depot is that?!? Only solar powered ones I've seen were in the hundreds
@@matthewcastle3364 Works as long as there is cooler air outside to pull in. Best is to insulate entire garage first; cement floor will act as a heat sink to cool the space; adding REAL A/C will complete the job.
@@x.y.8581 put a mylar blanket to reflect sunlight of the garage door
@@corcaccia Yes, in addition to foam insulation and some REAL A/C.
You could also insulate your garage doors with rigid foam sheets. I did this and it brought the garage temp down by about 20 degrees.
I was going to suggest the same thing :) also in the attic space. a fan that would exhaust the hot air from the garage would make it more comfortable as well
Imagine ending the video showcasing the temperature difference/drop? That woulda been nice. Which makes me wonder if this really had any effect at all besides what a traditional say vornado fan does, lol
It didn't lol a 100 dollar ac unit would be far better.
It would have been nice to see the comparison between the before and after on the fan. It will surely be cooler after the fan contraption is built. What I like is you could at the end of the day take the melted water in the cooler and freeze it over night. Moreover, yo might actually be able to bury the cooler somewhere and pump the water from there. The ground typically keeps a natural temp of about 50 degrees. It is a cool project and is meant to keep things cool for a short amoutn of time.. Maybe insulate your garage door as well.
I agree that the first thing you should have done was insulate the garage door. Easily done with foam adhesive and foam board. For ice, use gallon milk jugs or 2 liter soda bottles filled with water and frozen. Will last far longer than ice cubes. And as this is now 6 years later, the cost is closer to $200 not counting the door insulation.
Thumbs down for not testing the temp afterwards
He did test it, with himself
Did not show it couse it did no work lol
yeah maybe like 1 degree, so he's going to sweat a few drops less in an hour.
Agreed
yes that was my question. What's the temp now after running for 1hr?
I once had a similar situation. First and most importantly you must insulate the garage door. In my case, I was able to use 1/2 inch thick Styrofoam sheets that dramatically cut down on the heat transfer. I then utilized a portable air conditioner that only required a small opening to vent out the hot air. My method cost about $300 but on a 100° day I could cool this garage down to 75°.
You cut a hole in your garage wall? I assume it was between the studs.
You cut a hole in your garage wall? I assume it was between the studs.
So he spends $100 for a DIY air conditioner which btw who knows if its safe and works well... I can get a decent air conditioner from Cook Bros for $99 😂😂😅 and can fill my room to 60° which is pretty chill... can this do that? But I guess it was a fun project
Purchased: August 2023 - still works GREAT!I ruclips.net/user/postUgkxxsUnXhGsSJLim_XnMHyQK0u3XVaW-CGn live in a studio and during the summer it gets scorching hot - really old building with no ac units. I can’t express how EASY it was to install. This unit has been a life savior during the summer and some days during other seasons where it can still be a bit warm at night. In this small place is my friend, a husky, poodle mix and myself. We need AC - lolI don’t use the dehumidifier option - I’m not sure if it will leak in my house, since I did not install the small draining hose that came with it. May look into it late but I don’t worry about much humidity in the apartment. I don’t understand why the negative reviews since all things mentioned, I personally did not find issues with. Definitely worth it!
I used to have a shop next to an ice plant. It had two big ice machines that ran all day long and expelled about 5 gal a minute of very cold water (about 38 to 42 usually) with all the minerals left over that didn't freeze into ice. I ran it into a igloo cooler and pumped it into the building and through a a/c cooling coil with 4 rows of tubes. It got clogged with scale after a few months and started leaking. I built a cage of stainless tube and ran a 4 tube manifold system that worked pretty well. It wasn't like ac but it was cheap and it got the temp down to 76 some mornings in my 2000 sf shop.
As for a cooler full of Ice I don't think it would effectively cool a small closet with a 20 pound bag of ice and a few feet of copper tube. You don't have enough cold (BTUs) and you don't have enough coil to move any cold. The ice will work great for the first few minutes but if you are in a hot place you would do better to put wet rags on your head and arms and keep beer cold as you can in the cooler.
I also used to get hundreds of pounds of ice that I would do into my cooler cage and run the fan with that. I have melted tons of ice with a box fan in my days. A cooler full of ice is a few dozen BTUs an hour.
The cooling is psychological.
why didn't you just buy a $98 AC from walmart?
Because with Trump’s super Tariff, the price have gone up bigly.
@@yolamontalvan9502 I just check there are a lot for that price? www.walmart.com/search/?cat_id=0&query=small+ac+unit
@@yolamontalvan9502 should just blame yourself... On the net is the only place people like you have a spine.. In person you're a jellyfish
He'll save more money in the lowered energy cost I'm guessing.
There's a couple of reasons why this is better for a garage / enclosed space:
Window AC units stick out through a window, or hole in the wall for two purposes. There is accumulated water which needs to drip somewhere, and the heat exchanger needs to exhaust air outside (otherwise it would completely negate the cooling, if not cause /additional/ heat)
Those portable units have the same requirements, though usually a bit easier to deal with, if you have a window (but then, why not just get a window unit?)
Portable units have 2 things over window units: usually less power draw (so no dedicated circuit, or worry of overloading a circuit) - and they're, well, portable - meaning you can move them around within the room, or to other rooms as needed.
A home made swamp cooler (which Ben created here), requires neither an exhaust port nor dripline, and is portable. It also requires much less amperage than either AC unit. The downside is that this will cool a small area barely to humane levels in those temps. This is a good design, if for temporary / non-permanent use.
For a more permanent solution, this can be scaled up to a buried 55 gallon plastic drum, automotive radiator, and a single motor to run a spindle pump and fan unit. Burying the barrel to a depth of about 4-5 feet (the bottom) will allow the water to cool off better, as ground temps are usually stable at much lower temps. Using a stable liquid, this can be left in service for a long time. I wouldn't use water alone for this. Possibly automotive coolant as an additive and stabilizer if not something else.
I've seen homesteader plans for using PVC pipe buried in the ground, in a U shap. One end is outside of the home, with a capped T on sideways - the top being capped and used for cleanout purposes, and the side with a screened off elbow for air intake. The other end is inside, with a blower fan pulling air in. The pipe has to be long enough, and deep enough for the air passing through to be cooled off. This isn't usually something suitable for suburban settings though.
So... his homemade swamp cooler, even being $100, is a better use for his purposes. And, it'd made a great power-outage cooling system, running on a generator or battery system.
Great video! I'd like to know the ambient temp as well. Also how well it works with just water as water has a good heat absorption threshold. Also I'd be curious to know how much energy it uses over all as this is a great build! Thanks for the video! We appreciate you!
How cold does it put out? A temperature reading with the gun would be nice....
Your never gonna get the satisfying cool, without compressed refrigeration(aka real air conditioning)
Ok. Well for 100 I’ll be buying an air conditioner. I wanted to see the temperature difference and for some reason that wasn’t included after the build and presentation.
OK, I had HIGH hopes for this cooler. The theory sounds great, and I was hoping it would really cool the air. Nope. It sucks. My apologies to the people I replied to about their comments on here, I tried it and it DOES NOT WORK! I even filled the cooler almost full of ice, and you can't tell a difference in temperature 3 inches away from the fan and coil. Don't waste your time or your money. Go get the portable unit from Lowes or Home Depot.
Brett Harper that’s why he kept touching the coils
This is literally a DIY swamp cooler which is just way over thought up. If he took the ice and put it in a strainer over the bucket but in front of the Fan it would have had a much greater effect.
Poor buddy, you have actually done that?
@@BenjaminSodos A swamp cooler works by evaporating water to lower the air temp. It also will raise the humidity. That is fine in an area where the humidity goes low but not so well in an area where the humidity is above 80%. I actually built one and added it to our central air unit here in southern Florida. When the humidity is low, the water temp is about 10°+ cooler than the air temp. 6 to 8 when the humidity goes up. But the air coming out of the condenser unit also even after picking up the heat from the house is the same as the incoming air. So they can work. 90° day and 90% humidity and the water might be at 82°-84°. As the fan has to run anyway, the only added electrical use is the water pump to circulate the water. Which mostly is water ( condensate ) from the A/C unit and from the dehumidifier in the house.
Check out the homemade AC 5 gallon bucket
Ben Tardif - " I will make whatever you guys ask me to and whatever I come up with so you guys watch my videos and I make money. You can make fun of my inventions all you want, I don't care. Just watch my videos please."
Great project! At 2:58, my dad would refer to those as "coping saws" rather than hacksaws.
Tom Nally that is its correct name, but an easy mistake
it might work better if you put the copper on the other side pulling out air thru the coil is the only way to get rid of hot air, anti freeze would be better. law of refrigeration, remove heat. if he did it all with dc power it might help when you lose power
Good work Ben! These people who are quick to complain should be more supportive and constructive in their comments. Why others feel they have to tear people down is perplexing. So how many of you who made snide comments have a youtube channel? How many videos have you all made? Keep building and keep posting Ben, you always have my support . The way we get better is by sharing ideas and thoughts without the fear of ridicule.
brufadeve and one more thing I see alot of these negative comments your talking about and some of them don't even know how to spell which is funny. I loved this video
or buy $100 A/C from wallmart plug it in and done.
But those are Windows AC right? I can't put those in my house 😭😭 so that leaves me with very expensive options right?
What if he doesn't have a window to vent the hot exhaust from the A/C?
@Drakilicious thanks! Im checking them out !
Youre such an idiot...use ur old fan and old ice box..be resourceful bitch
Till u see the bill
You didn’t show the final ambient temp. Fail.
druidboy76 probably didn't make much of a difference tbh
I know, he had the laser thermometer and everything
put a metal plate in front of the fan. use the laser thermometer to measure the temperature of the metal plate. it's not terribly difficult. and there's no reason to be insulting to someone else the way you were.
Is that why they use them in the A/C industry? lol. Ya I know, they take the temp of the vent, but you could put something in front of it. PLUS he had a GINORMOUS thermometer!
yup.
First minute in: oh yeah I got this, that looks easy
Five minutes in: Yeah ok I'm not doing that
Not even hard
How well did it cool off the garage itself? I know it would feel amazing on a hot day standing right next to it, but if I'm working on the garage in different positions (above the engine, under the engine, under the back of the car etc) it would be kind of a nuisance to move the fan and cooler around. I'd like to do something like this but wall mounted.
Excellent idea to waste a 100$. Also well done on ruining a perfectly fine cooler. You could have just bought a small/medium sized window AC unit for 100-110$ .. for the argument of AC's energy/power consumption here's my counter argument - amount of energy used to make the ice in your freezer for refilling the cooler, might be even more than the power consumed in an actual Small AC unit. Anyway just my opinion, you don't have to agree with me. Cheers!
Point is to save on high electricity costs lol
I don't think he had a window
@@missdisla5091 : Electricity cost will be the same - Producing ice consumes electricity !
Post build temp readings ?
It will make the room hotter. The tap water will warm up, get pumped into a cooler where it will stay warm, then only warm water will get pumped through the pipe. In addition, the fan and more so the pump, will be creating heat. This means an overall gain in temperature.
when all the ice is melted you should change it or turn off the cooler and close all of your window room to preserve the coolnes
Just for the fact that you put some thought and effort into this build I give you a thumbs up young man!
😁😄😆😂
Nothing against the creator of this video, but just so you guys know (not that it should come as any surprise), but this entire build was basically a waste of time and money, and doesn't actually cool the air any more than the fan and cold water and ice alone would have. I can see how some people (primarily amateurs, to be frank) might think something like this would work, though....
that's exactly what i realized when i was watching the video. he says in the video 'the less holes the better'. oops! no, the *more* holes the better. he's using the cooler and 'less holes' to slow the heat exchange between the inside and outside while at the same time, built an elaborate system to do just the opposite. yikes! when we realize this, i was thinking, why doesn't he just blow air with a fan across a cooler of ice water? and for the same cost he could buy 4 coolers and 4 fans.
where is the proof of temperature change
It's within the minds of persons who have capacity to comprehend science and physics.
@@The_DC_Kid yuuup
5000 btu ac by $110 with around $25 a month power cost better idea for me
What about the cost of ice every time you use it? I didn't see that on the price list. And I would have started with insulation in the garage door.
You should also use twice as much copper tubing./// Come to think about it , just open the garage door.
His main purpose was to have as much viewer as possible to get 1,000,000% ROI from his $100 investment. You have to dig deeper to what these RUclipsrs are doing to their YT contents for financial gains. We call it easy money! You don't see him replying to any comments, he is there sitting and laughing to the bank.
@@ShutDFckOff WORD!!👍👏👏👏
that's so stupid! you must use large amount of ice and permanent use energy to produce that.
It's just so weird that so many people don't know about the freezer compartment in their own refrigerator. GOTTA BE foreigners where refrigerators are like a brand-new commodity in their market. Now they just need a sewage system. LOL
At the end of the day how much did it cool off your workshop? You left out that small detail.
I was waiting for that part
Probably not at all but i bet it feels good in front of the fan.
Try dry ice
@@ronwitek4539 dry ice will pump carbon dioxide into your room. It's deadly in an enclosed space.
People laughing on his idea. Just imagine u leave somewhere hot where for 5 to 6hours you ain't got no electricity but with this and a small battery it can change your life.
@@lylaaxiom8750 you obviously don't know how much wattage those things take. A fan is a lot more energy efficient
Imperio Anderson technology connections explains the concept pretty well, you need refrigerant to to suck the heat away.
Box fan runs fairly quiet - said no one ever
I did this and it’s was 78 dollars in total
Dammmm the only thing i wanted was the temp gun results on the FINAL. Boooo. Redo the vid.
Did it work ? Did it blow cold air ? Why No testing of the ambient temperature? 😮You just sat there 🤦🏾♂️
it will blow cool air until the ice melts. Then it won't blow cool air... Go to Walmart and buy their cheapest window unit air conditioner. You may have to enlarge or build a window large enough for the air conditioner in the garage's door though. And while the window unit will increase your electricity bill somewhat, a 5,000 BTU unit will consume less than a 15,000 BTU unit...
@Drakilicious
This technically isn't a swamp cooler, and actually works like an actual A/C without the compressor or refrigerant. I wrote a longer reply explaining the difference here, if you care to read it. Swamp coolers blow moist air over damp pads or cloth, which cools the air. Unfortunately, the blown air is mostly cool moist air, which is bad for cooling in most non-desert climates. A/Cs cool and dehumidiy air by blowing the air over cold coils, which dehumidify by condensing the water vapor from the air and draining the condensate away.
However, these coils aren't in the best setup to adequate drain the condensate away and might remain moist most of the time (at least for the lower coils). Therefore, the system might inadvertently act as a swamp cooler.
@@lylaaxiom8750
A/Cs need to be sized appropriately for the room size because they also dehumidify the air, and not just cool the room. You don't just buy a larger sized unit (one with more BTUs) because it can cool faster and more efficiently. An oversized unit will cool the room too fast before it can properly dehumidify the air. Once the room gets cold enough, the A/C will stop cooling, and the cold cooling coils are (typically) the only way for the unit to continue dehumidifying the air. So to continue drying the air with an oversized unit, the cooling mode needs to stay on, which will then make your room too cold.
I wrote a longer reply for this video if you care to read more about this topic.
I'm in the New Orleans. It gets insanely hot here and humid. I made one of these earlier for about $80. I think I got a smaller pump but perfect for this. It's made for 3 foot fountains. It may be from the humidity but my copper line condensates like crazy. I had to make a hole for it to drip into.
Interesting.
I did this with a smaller cooler. One thing I will say is that you don't need a lot of water. Just enough for the pump to recycle it through. You have to really pack it with ice. Otherwise it will melt really fast and the water going through the tubing will start to get warm. That's the key. PACK IT with plenty of ice.
For like $50 bucks more you could have just bought an AC unit…
this is not an aircon, don't waste your money please. This is a swamp cooler or evaporative cooler which is useless when the humidity hits above 40%.
i will give the only positive feed back on here looks like... great job for trying young man..trial and error.. makes a smart person.. Im glad you had the effort to try something out for yourself. good job.. I love to hire people like you.. self go gidders..little southern slang there.lol
Nothing wrong with trying! I'm not sure if it worked but he gets an A for effort
@@Jaybird805 it will work, but he goofed on his heat exchanger design. The copper coil doesn't have enough surface area to transfer heat to the cold water all that effectively.. using an old car radiator would have worked better.
Haha A for effort. But yeah, F on the project.
@@Chaddz3
Ja, which is why window A/Cs have lots of thin find on their evaporative coils.
On the plus side, this is one of the few DIY air conditioners that's at least close to how an actual A/C works, and not just a glorified swamp cooler.
This might be “decent” if you already have the materials laying around in your house, but for around $100 you can buy an actual AC.
A used one maybe. In Canada where I live a new one is upwards of $200.
Should have doubled copper tube pre fan and after. Two opportunities to cool the air.
I built one for less than $50 basically the same but used items I had on hand. I used a fish tank pump. The pump was about $11. The most expensive item for me was the copper tubing. Worked great.
Interesting.
Did you meassure the temperature difference with an d without cold water running?
2nd that
So what was the final temperature change? Kinda why I watched the video. Lol
Can you make a time machine video so I can get this six minutes of my life back?
Nice
Ikr, this video is not CooL at all.
Lord Jesus PIPE CLAMPS
HOSE CLAMPS!
jubilee clips
We made this to help keep our tech's cool when working in attics.
The air coming out the fan is marginally cooler. Barely noticeable.
The attics average about 116 degrees. This thing did nothing to cool it.
What it did do, was create a TON of condensation water.
You cant operate this thing without a drip pan that needs to be constantly emptied
there is better makes then this guys
If you run a heating and cooling company and attempted this you need to find a new trade. We're you surprised it created a lot of condensation while being used I'm an attic? So fucking stupid
@@coryryder9070 yeah we made a way better one with a powerful pump. But it doesnt matter. It doesnt work very well.
We strapped a pan to the bottom of it with a drain tube.
But its just not enough cooling capacity to make a difference.
@@MJC-he3zt No, we weren't surprised, we were prepared for condensation. But to us it was worth a try on the chance that it could possibly help.
Too bad you think we are "stupid and should find a new trade".
But we think we will stay in business since we are excellent at what we do.
Its ok to try new things ya know. Thats how greatness is achieved. Have a peacefull day.
I’m from az we stay over 110 out here. You do know you can just buy a window cooler for less than 200
Every thing is perfect in this video, the only thing he didn't show us the temperature before and after so that we can see the real difference and it is worth it or not .
My thoughts too. It should have taken the edge off of the total room temp, but thanks for the video!!
A car radiator would be more efficient than that copper tubing and possibly free (used).
That's an idea; I've got a spare one in my shed. Feel a project coming on.
Christopher Bearfoot, would love to know how that works out especially how long it lasts before refilling the ice.
With the hundreds of pounds of ice needed to cool a room for more than a few minutes, you save nothing.
What you have is a good project for a kid in science class, since you can buy a real one-room window-unit A/C for about $100, and you don't have to add ice. Good video though. Just find a better project.
nice build! i think I'd still prefer a $102 air conditioner over a chest of ice, but it's cool nonetheless.
Great video tutorial. Although in my experience, I’ve tried something similar to this and it does work for a personal air chiller but it will definitely not cool off a hot room. For the money, invest in an inexpensive portable window AC. You can find them for about $125-$250. (Buy them in the winter months and you’ll save more money.) If you buy a window unit, they’re usually cheaper.
Why didn't you show the temperature of the cooling fan like you did with the garage door? How cold is the air coming off of it?
He seems like a real nice guy but before making videos learn some basics - that was a coping saw not a hacksaw and hose clamps not pipe clamps 2. Anthony Sambataro brings up a good point so we know if it cooled off the room or do you have to sit in front of it which not much work is getting done in your shop. 3. Design a Misting system for the garage door and install some insulation on the inside of garage door 4, Overall design in theory is possible but not effecient where more surface area of the tubing is needed to match the amount of air blowing across it. If you were able to baffle one person with your brilliance to make one then mission accomplished but I reccomend removing the video
Anthony ...
I was wondering same thing ... I'd like to know how efficient it is.
Not an AC. Just a cooler. At some point ice will melt, water will come to same temperature as environment. No cooling after that. Very unaffective way.add a compressor of some sort. Use coolant. Reduce pump size,
. for roughly 20 bucks more. It wouldn't d also need a container so big..
If you want a reasoneable amount of cooling, you need 150 pounds of ice per day ! See my other comment for the maths of this !
At time marker 2:59 you refer to a coping saw as a hack saw. These are two very different saws and each serves their purpose. Because if you had an actual hack saw you would have never been able to make that cut for the power cable. Just wanted to share that with you, and I am also not trying to knock your video in anyway either. In fact I love this video you made, and also shared with us! Keep up the great work!
cost of Ice is greater than the cost of running an small A/C
Just freeze bottles or gallon jugs of water and refreeze at night to not have to buy ice.
@@squirrelturds2823 : Electricity cost to freeze water to ice is the same as running a A/C unit . You need to pay this electricity...
@@jnb8918
He's paying for a freezer.
You're paying for a freezer +AC.
The work is the same and you're paying double the fees.
@@DC... So, if I got your point right, this guy is producing ice without using AC ? ? ... Generating cold use energy somewhere, no matter how you do it. If he buys ice at the convenient store, he is not using AC, but the store uses AC to make ice... and charge him twice the cost for this...
@@jnb8918 Dust Cloud is saying he is paying for the freezer to run and keep his food cold anyway. So putting some water in it to freeze into ice is not costing you any extra.
I am impressed.... 120 degrees and you don't have a single drop of sweat on you...
You notice that too🧐
Were you trying to make a "subtle" point? The guy's young and slim and so likely doesn't sweat as quickly nor as much as fat, old men. Which are YOU?
@@The_DC_Kid or it's all bullshit