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Main => Everything Else => Topic started by: Edgedamage on June 06, 2006, 10:00:39 am
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http://www.eng.uwaterloo.ca/~gmilburn/ac/
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And if you need cheap hot air - just listen to Mr C.
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That's a pretty cool idea.
I had this "room air conditioner" once. It blew air over water (that was put in a resevoir) that was in a paper membrane. It came out cold.
It said it only worked in rooms that were already air conditioned, it just lowered the temperature. It worked great.
Now that I think of it, it's just a humidifier.
This device this guy built doesn't remove the humidity from the air when it cools it like a real A/c unit does through the condensation pump. So if he's cooling the air, everything in his house should be damp, no?
Jacktucky
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And if you need cheap hot air - just listen to Mr C.
Note he said cheap, not free. You have to spend your time. ;)
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Just put something similar together at work for the "glove box" which is basically a box that we run argon/helium thru while welding tungsten.
It was just a heat exchanger from the autoparts store and a 120mm fan.
If you wanted to get fancier with the setup Edgedamage posted you could use a full sized radiator... :P
Wow, I just had a pretty sweet idea. The inlaws have a well that has a pretty decent runoff. They could easily hook onto that, make a loop that goes into the house, thru a radiator or three setup at various points of the house with a fan behind em, then back out to wherever it is that the water goes now. Heck they could hook a generater to the water output and power the fans with that!