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Homemade airconditioner

I made a sort of Homemade air conditioner today.

It’s based of a powerful fan (150 w, sounds like a large aircraft) and 5 meters of copper tubing in a coil mounted on the fan. Cold water (around 10 degrees Celsius) goes trough the copper tube at around 2 liters per minute.

I also added strips of 0,2 mm thick copper plating to help disperse the heat.

I measured it’s cooling capacity today at around 2000 BTU/H, but I’m going to reserve judgment until tomorrow (it will be around 30 degrees Celsius, just like today).

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2 Responses to “Homemade airconditioner”

  1. Silje says:
    Tuesday, July 29, 2008 at 09:27

    So, how did it work?

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  2. erlend says:
    Wednesday, July 30, 2008 at 12:19

    Well.. It works at around 2000 BTU/H, so it is making the air cooler, and it is working as a dehumidifier. But based on the size of our living room / kitchen, a AC with around 12’000-15’000 BTU/H is recommended. So the effect by this homemade AC is barely noticeable. Instead I think I’m going to change it so that I get the fan, and make a water cooled bed for the ferrets instead :)

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