How to Build a Dorm-Friendly Air-Conditioner
Sep 15
Kelly Sutton from HackCollege demonstrates how to build a dorm-legal air conditioner. For more content, visit HackCollege.com
Duration : 0:5:6
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It’s interesting …
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.
Maybe you didn’t …
Maybe you didn’t take thermodynamics… but you are an idiot.
No AC in my dorm, …
No AC in my dorm, and i live in Texas. I need this
niiiice. i am going …
niiiice. i am going to do that but with recurculating water. thanks a lot.
Thanks you guys …
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 …
so you have to like refill the bucket of water before it runs out and empty the other one constatnly?…
I’m actually …
I’m actually interested in this, not because I live in a ty dorm, but because I live in a house with ty insulation.
it’s a pig’s idea!
it’s a pig’s idea!
unpactical
unpactical
AKA a siphon?…
AKA a siphon?…
Please post a video …
Please post a video showing temps with and without that contraption.
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Should give some …
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.
if your dorm …
if your dorm doesn’t have a/c, it’s probably gonna be small and crappy and you wont have room for the buckets. maybe for a storage shed or a hot room with exercise equipment.
pretty cool, but i …
pretty cool, but i wouldn’t want unsightly buckets laying around my dorm…
Never worked for me …
Never worked for me, so this year, simple, made two actually, using those carry around coolers, one you plug into car, you know, for food and drinks, keep cool.
Anyway, put top on, hole in and hole out, one for fan to blow in and other for some pipe tube say by 3 inches across like, turn fan on, put in ice, air blows in, over cool ice and out other hole, nice, cool.
Simple, easy, less water used, use ice bags, so no water either in some cases, or cooler plug in version, simple eh.
You could throw out …
You could throw out the water. Or be an like my roommate was when he did this and attach the hose directly to the sink via another hose clamp and feed the other end of the hose out a hole he cut in the screen in our window. I don’t know why he thought it would be a good idea to do that considering we lived on the 7th floor of our dorm and our window was above the rear entrance.
Bernoulli’s …
Bernoulli’s principle has nothing to do with why this works, This is standard siphoning, where a fluid at a higher location, by way of a conduit is allowed to flow to a lower location. The only application that bernoulli’s principle applies, is determining the flow rate of the water, and the maximum height of the tube, but it’s not why this works. Gravity is why this works.
Eventually.. but if …
Eventually.. but if you put ice in it, it will stay cold. then when the ice melts and you get too much water.. pour some out and add more ice. adding salt would melt the ice faster and super cool the water as well. a recirculating system that you add ice to seems more efficient to me
If you recirculate …
If you recirculate the water it will eventually blow warm air.
Why don’t you use a …
Why don’t you use a small water pump used in landscaping for small ponds and use 1 bucket of COLD water with pump in it to recirculate the cold water. Then you wont have to dump the water out of the collecting bucket each time it gets full.
i agree. it seems …
i agree. it seems handy, but needs to be proven
So where does the …
So where does the lobster go?
While helpful, that …
While helpful, that guy is kind of full of himself
maybe it would be …
maybe it would be better to use one bucket, water pump and ice in the bucket