Posts Tagged ‘fan’

The water cooled ferret bed

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

Seeing that my homemade air conditioner was not powerful enough to cool down the living room (it only had 2000 of the 14’000 required BTU/H), I took the copper coil off the fan, and turned it into a water cooled bed for the ferrets :)

The bed holds a comfortable 16-18 degrees Celsius.

This is nice for the little weasels, seeing they can’t sweat to get cooler.

Homemade airconditioner

Monday, July 28th, 2008

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).