erlendaakre.com » fan http://www.erlendaakre.com Erlend Aakre's blog Wed, 18 Jan 2012 12:56:58 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 The water cooled ferret bed http://www.erlendaakre.com/the-water-cooled-ferret-bed.html http://www.erlendaakre.com/the-water-cooled-ferret-bed.html#comments Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:14:46 +0000 Erlend Aakre http://www.erlendaakre.com/?p=350 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.

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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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