Summer weather is heating up, so you know just how important keeping cool can be.
We found this great money-saving tip to keep you cool: Not only comfort is a factor, in fact every year people die due to heat. Keeping even a small area of your home cool in toasty summer weather can be very expensive if you use your air conditioner. Instead, this simple air conditioner, an easy DIY project cools down a small area, and can be made in just a few minutes out of simple parts.
This is a great way to re-purpose a few parts that you probably already have laying around. Check out the full video & how-to after the jump:
It’s 19.00 and anything to keep people from dying from heat stroke. Great idea
that 19 dollar bit is a crock however it is still worth the price. about 40 for the cooler (ave price 39.95) 19.95 for the DC fan, another 20 or so for a DC power supply, a lead acid battery can go upto and over 100 bucks if you want it to run for any amount of time. and about 4-6 bucks for the elbow and another 3-4 bucks for the adhesive to hold it in place. So excluding the battery we are at about 90 – 100 bucks… far from 19 bucks, But there are flaws in this design, namely the moisture it adds to the air in an already humid time of year. Not bad if you are in an arid zone but most of us dont live there. a better way is to lay cheap thin hose or tubing across the bottom of the cooler, bring them up to the fan side and make a rubber type fitting that would press up against the inside of the lid, with the multiple tubes connected to it. make another piece to come up to the elbow the ice would sit on top of this, the melting ice would help chill the tubes due to cold water. and you could also use dry ice with this set up. You could also run the tubes in and out the ends of the cooler without attaching to the lid, by bringing them in and down one side then up and out the other, And although it is more expensive, copper tubing would be best for this due to the ability to exchange heat. and the longer you can make each run of tubing (increasing the time the air in in the tube) the colder the air will be. Some times the simplest setup is the best, BUT sometimes it creates other problems. I’d like to be able to use dry ice… and IF you can concentrate all the tubes output into the right size, you can use a plastic pipe fitting that will connect to a shop vac hose, or clothes dryer vent hose, and use it while camping with the unit outside the tent and the outlet Inside…
Tommy Schultz
These are $#%&!@*! Don’t buy into this malarky
Hell ya
Emily Weaver
Got $400 I can have a maintenance free window unit
You will burn more than $400 in ice using it.
this is a great idea .. and i know you can run the fan off of solar power … but without electricity .. where are you going to get the ice .. ??? just sayin
im sure obama will give ya some …lol .. dont be mad !! lol
Tyler Wales ice chest idea