$8 Homemade Air Conditioner - Works Flawlessly!
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Don't spend hundreds of dollars on a portable A/C for your home, just build one for $8 dollars and 10 minutes of your time! You can pick up a Styrofoam cooler for about $4 at most stores. Dryers vents cost about $2 dollars a pop. All you need after that is an old fan and some frozen bottles of water!
Once your box is completed following the instructions in the video, simply add the frozen bottles of water and go to town. My home was 78 degrees and after running the box in the living room for a couple hours it dropped into the 60's which is fantastic on a hot day!
If you load the cooler with frozen bottles, the cooler will last anywhere from 3-6 hours which gives you enough time to have another set of bottles freezing in the interim. This is great for single rooms on a hot day and will drop the overall temperature quite a bit. Enjoy!
I only have $7.95. damn
Ask the store clerk if you can remove 5 cents worth of Styrofoam.
...You need a nickel and "an extra fan laying around the house" :)
@@V8SplashMan LOLOL LmFAo LMMFAO heeee
@@V8SplashMan remove 5 cents worth of styrofoam
I'll give you 5 cents buddy
1:37 "if you're into the whole Celsius thing." What an American thing to say 😂
Its like Celsius is a drug.
Yeah, bro, Im hooked into this Celsius thing, lmao
I just made it. It works pretty well, but I would recommend putting the fan on the side and as far from the tube as possible so the air has to travel through the ice, making it colder.
What's the point of a dryer vent? Why not just let the cold air escape from a hole?
@@ryanleiderman9622 its for direct air
If you want it to blow on you instead of going staight up
I assume it also helps keep the ice frozen for longer since only cold air comes out of the vents
We're using a similar method (just a bucket of ice in front of a box fan) my apt is 90 degrees rn so im more than willing to this lol i aint got money (or aproval) for a window unit
This is the most useful youtube video I have ever watched. My room is now being cooled by a styrofoam cooler and life is good.
Is life still good my friend? Did the styrofoam cooler hold up?
@@Boxmitvideos 😂😂😂
Buddy your room isn't being cooled. This thing will do absolutely nothing to cool a room. You need to displace hot air for Effective cooling. This is a gimmick or device to blow cold air on you from one foot away.
@@tac6044 The cooler sucks in hot air, the cooler is cold, the cooler pushes out cold air. How does that not displace hot air?
@@chrismcclain6518 Run it all day and it will not drop the room temp by even one single degree. Even a very tiny room. I cannot believe people actually think quickly running air over ice will remove the heat from a room. Its no more effective than a fan.
mine ran about $25 and the difference is amazing!!!
I like the idea of using multiple frozen water bottles. That way you can stay cool while they're frozen, but have an icy cool drink when they thaw out a bit.
I like the bottles too, this keeps the cold fluid trapped unlike exposed ice cubes or buckets of water. Any water that condenses on the outside and pools in the bottom of the styrofoam cooler, is from the room air so it is also a mild dehumidifier. Good one!
Grant Thompson - "The King of Random" I read that in your voice. Is that weird?
😭😭😭
Yes but I believe the exposed ice might make the air cool quicker
Yes.. Idea.. Thats all it is.. You see the problem with heat is that it has to go somewhere.. No AC that doesnt output heat outside of the house or at least room is efficient enough, this here has about the same effect as ventilator is, its just the illusion of cooling
Thank you for sharing this video..... I'm a single mom of 3, and my window a/c unit just went out..... I could not afford to replace it right now..... but I am certain I can build this.... thank you
snillocadirb same as well just now .. did it work ma’am
It works ok. You need to stay on top of keeping the ice frozen
@@Leg0z the point she was making is she doesn't have enough funds to buy a new ac unit and this idea is real cheap.
@@jovsitalo That's a very bizarre way of saying "I'm broke" as I personally know several single mothers with multiple children that have careers and are doing alright. And it's quite rude to assume someone's financial situation based on marital status and whether they're a parent. But I'm not dense, I know exactly what she was implying, I just wish some single mothers would stop dragging out their kids to gain sympathy or gain internet points at every opportunity, which is exactly what happened here. It shows really poor character using ones children in such a way and teaches children to have a beggar mentality. Just say you're broke like a normal person.
@@Leg0z Just read past it and move on without trying to shame a stranger, "like a normal person." FFS
I’m a cheapskate and my car AC went down. I made this and it works to some degree. I got the cooler at the dollar store and I already had a portable fan. I save on gas, because I don’t have to use the unit. It doesn’t work anyway and I don’t have pay some over priced mechanic. I’ll be sticking to this for the warm seasons
This works well in your car?
I've had to resort to doing this before. If you have NOTHING else, this is a godsend.
If you're talking about The, One, True, God... Kindly, Captilize His Almighty-Name, Ok?
I was only able to fit one vent in, so I got a nicer one with an adjustable elbow so I can direct the air better. This actually ended up costing $10 for me (vent was $4, cooler was $3 and fan was $3).
For a studio apartment this works very well. I currently only have one frozen two liter in the cooler and its been running for a half hour. I can already feel the difference and its about 90 outside. If your a poor graduate student like me this is a very good way to help keep you from frying during the summer.
Nothing better than a Ghetto Ghood Air Conditioner! Coming to a hood near you!! ;-) Great Video
yo daym i love your video man
Daym, what you doing over hear?!? do a review on some pickles, everybody eats them, but no one knows which ones the best kind
Nice!
Daym!! Great videos man! See you on Wednesday? : )
Great to see all the best TH-camrs here!^-^
This totally works well. Obviously not really $8. Can be little noisy, but pretty cheap and easy to put together. Finding the right fan was probably the trickiest part, and there were some serious space constraints with the lid.
I made this for my Aunt in the while vacationing in the Dominican Republic. She loves it!!! Just told her to freeze a couple of two liter bottles throughout the day. She sleeps comfortable at night. Thanks Household Hacker!
Thank you soooo much!!! I am disabled and on fixed income. This works so great and cost is so low and I live in Texas so really needed help that I could afford. Would show you picture if I could, thanks again
Thank you! I just moved to a new apartment and it doesn't have A/C (this should be a crime in Southern CA!) I was looking for something inexpensive that I could make but the only DIY's I could find required power tools I don't own. This is a perfect solution for me and my pup (who looks a lot like yours funnily enough). Thank you so much for sharing!! 😊
Funnily?
Just built this with my husband for our garage works perfectly!!! Thanks!!! Love all of your creative ideas!!
Made this last year, following these instructions! I also had a length of thin copper tubing laying around, so i coiled it into a few loops and stuffed it in the cooler on top of the ice. VERY effective!
Thank you. I wondered if someone actually tried this. All I seen was snarky comments about the price. Even if its 20 and works its worth it.
Didn't work for me at all, just melted two bags of ice in one hour
Never tried that, what the benefit to using the copper coil? Do the temp even further?
@@errrika1984 of course you're blowing warm air directly at them, have 2 backup bags and replace them everytime
@@errrika1984 not supposed to use bags of ice I straight up said freeze bottles of water also rotate the bottle when they thaw out dip shit smh swear this country is nothing but full of idiots smh also helps if you freeze the water with salt last longer too but hey what do I know besides I have a nice asf free ac unit in my room since I had fans laying around an storage container and some foam mats smh but you do you and stay hot👍🏾 while I'm cool😎
A few caveats here that he doesn't go over...
Whatever containers you use to contain the water, do not fill them up all the way because water expands when it freezes.
Instead of angling the vents forward like the video shows, instead point them straight up and put this thing behind an oscillating fan. The fan picks up the cool air and pushes it all over the room. Handy in apartments where the bedroom is often far away from the actual air conditioner, and it costs a small fortune to keep your ENTIRE apartment cooled at night. Doing this keeps my bedroom cool all night, and I live in Minnesota, where the air is hot and humid, and can be 80 deg F outside at midnight (like it is as I'm writing this).
What he also doesn't talk about is that the air sucked in by the fan and pushed over the ice, condenses moisture onto the bottles of water. A decent amount of it too. In the morning you'll need to wipe off the bottles, re-freeze them, and dump the water out of the container.
A FINAL note... is that the fan ALSO sucks in dirt, dust, pollen, ragweed, your sweat hanging in the air, your BO, your farts, which collects in that water. Periodically you either need to get yourself a new container, or put some bleach in there to kill whatever is growing in it.
Omg dude the oscillating fan idea is freaking golden just got mine started with a few ice packs I had in the freezer waiting for my bottles to freeze but ya feels amazing bout to blow a load everytime the fan oscillates towards me lol
What a drag
another thing: DO NOT USE DRY ICE TO COOL A ROOM THAT IS NOT WELL VENTILATED!!!!!
if you do, you risk CO2 poisoning! you could go to sleep in a room with it running and never wake up again!
Yes, your body gets rid of it because you will DIE if it builds up in your body. lol
@@AbiyBattleSpell The fan need never be replaced unless it stops blowing.
The cooler only needs to be replaced maybe once a year.
The bottles of water that I freeze are the same ones three years running now.
When making the ice add a good amount of salt to the bottles and it'll be a lot colder and the ice will last longer
how can it get colder than the freezer?
@@lewismccracken6073 salt water does not freeze
@@lewismccracken6073 salt lowers the water's freezing point. So the ice you make with salt water is colder than normal water ice
Responding from to a very old comment, but the salt will not add to the thermal inertia of the water (won’t cause it to become cooler). Keep in mind that ice doesn’t just stop cooling down at 32F, that’s just it’s freezing point. The salt just means that the freezing point is lower. If 2 bottles, one with and one without salt, were both brought to 20F, the one with salt wouldn’t freeze but they are both still the same temp.
@@redapproves1330 lol. It can't get any colder than the inside of the freezer.
This is really designed to keep someone cool out on the lake during a 90F day where a small child or baby might need direct airflow to keep cool, as they are prone to heat stress more than adults. This also works when camping b/c no one cares if condensation will ruin the tent. It's a TENT!. Great design and thanks for the idea.
Vents- $4
Cooler- $4
Fan- 10$
Sharpie to trace- 2$
Knife to cut- 4$
Vacuum to clean foam- $100
Refrigerator to freeze water- $500
House/Apartment to put cooler in- $100,000
Computer/Phone to watch this video on- $500
This project costs $101,124. Would not recommend.
lol
Plus the heat from the bottles is released back into the house by the refrigerator when you refreeze them.
Jethro James but my freezer is in my shed that's about 50 ft. away from my home.
You're a life saver
Someone's math is waaaaay off
*tries to cut out Styrofoam*
*hears Styrofoam noises*
I can't take it anymore, where's the dang credit card.
Lmfao 😂🤣😹💀
LOL.. I was literally cringing as he was cutting it. I thought well hell, it looks like I am just gonna have to deal with the heat.
ha ha ha
@@grich7746 🤣😂🤣🤣
@@timotavern3463 language
I love it, specially during the night, when we are just in one place and not moving around. I try not to have my ac on for more than 2 hours a day but its hard when its so hpt.this is perfect to sleep comfortably. Thank you
All these years later you still helping me rest in peace my guy
instead of using a knife to cut the holes, just heat the ends of the metal and press them through the Styrofoam. it will make less of a mess and is much easier and precise
Great idea!
@@manuellaeastman8906 But do it outside, burning polystyrene produces toxic smoke
I've seen these things all over the internet with comments from people who are amazed at how simple it is to make your own air conditioner. This is not an air conditioner, it will not cool your room. The only thing it will do it blow cool air at you as long as you sit directly in front of it. In order to cool the room you need to remove the heat and this doesn't do that. If you don't mind sitting in the exact same position for the time it takes for the ice to melt, then you'll get minimal relief. Your dismay will come when you run out of ice and have to turn the thing off only to realize the humidity in you room has increased and now you're hotter than you were before.
Anyone from BC during that heat wave lol ?
yes 😂
yes lol
I made it. Cost me a little more money then originally posted, but dropped my room 12 degrees. Thank you!!
Thank you so much for making this video. This would have never crossed my mind to make, and I really needed an air conditioner. I made it, but the 30-quart styrofoam cooler got bad reviews which included that it leaked, so I bought the 45-quart styrofoam cooler for $8.97+ tax. Then I couldn't find those dryer vents in any hardware store or even Wal-Mart, so I bought some adjustable 4-in aluminum elbow tube things for $4.28 each + tax. I also had to buy a drywall saw, $6.98 + tax, since I didn't have anything to cut the 1 1/2 " thick styrofoam. Everything came out to under $25, minus the tax, but still is a lot better than spending $400 on a window unit air conditioner. As far as the electric bill goes, that fan that I already had and placed on top of the cooler was going to run with or without this make-shift air conditioning thingy anyways. I live in an area where the average temperature for this month is way above normal, so I really needed this. Thank you so much!
Thank you so much for this video. Our a/c went out so I decided to try this. We are sitting in a very cool room right now thanks to your video.
"Aircondition companies will hate him for this!"
A new twist on an old idea. My grandmother would just set frozen jugs in front of the fan in a shallow pan, back in the day.
That probably also didn't work
Genius. I just built this Whoodangee, with a 7" fan and one (1) 4in elbow. Blows nice cool air for about 1 and a half hrs before ice bottle change over. Works great for cooling one room or small apt. Thanks for LITERALLY decreasing my power bill...dude.
My daughters first car was an ancient Ford Festiva with no A/C… this is exactly what she did (except she used a 3lb bag of ice from the store around the corner)… it worked like a CHARM!
Anybody who has a car with no a/c in the blazing temps these days… this absolutely works!!!
just built this during the weekend for my basement office. temp was 76 F starting out, ran it for about 2 hour, no difference other than bottles are half melted. made a slight change by standng the bottles up, the air coming out is colder now, and after 2 more hours, its dropped about 2 degrees. not a huge difference but definitely different.
Better than nothing and at least it was worth a try right lol! I'm going to try it right now actually 102 in Wisconsin this week
@@jodyann77 i am also in wisconsin lol it was noticeable but not quite worth all the effort imo
Just a tip: If you fill the bottles leaving a bit of air in the tops, you then squeeze the bottles to expel that air. It will allow the bottles to expand easier. I was surprised this does work a little. At least you will get a bit of relief. Do not just place ice cubes in the chest, as they will melt there, and then the vapour will be drawn up by the fan and let out into the room. The more vapour in the air, the more hotter it gets. De-humidify the air by keeping vapour out of it and then the froze ice water cools the air down. ;-)
this just saved my life lol, my house has no air conditioning and i live in colorado and this idea was amazing!
I love how his videos are still getting views, it really keeps his memory alive
My GF and I just got approved for an apartment. And found out maybe a couple days ago that they do not allow window a/c units. I am so glad I found this video, looks super easy to create and I like that you showed you can just fillup anything with water and place it in there
did it work ?
I have a window AC but it's loud and I can't sleep with the noise. Is the cooler set up noisy?
Don’t allow ac units? F that…
Worked perfectly! I had most of the stuff in the garage too!
Stop lying
I was just thinking about buying the Artic Air Personal Cool for $39.88,...but I think I'm gonna try THIS 1st.
Do not buy the Artic Air ...If you have a hot room It won't even drop your temp one degree ! Total scam !!!!
I went to Walmart and bought everything för like 16$ fan included
Can you share what you bought exactly and how well it works
Thalia Pruitt yeah I got the foam cooler for like 2 bucks and I got the drier metal pipe for like 4. I already had a fan and old Gatorade bottles to freeze. The fan was like 6 dollars. It works if I start when the room is cool after the night time. The climate I’m in it gets hot in the day but cool at night, so when I wake up it’s cool. So I start it once it starts heating up outside, and it helps maintain the cool air.
@@alecbentson try adding a few inches of water and some lose ice cubes. That should work a little better and get cooler faster.
This is a cheap and good hack. In my city, there's an ordinance for when AC units can be turned on. And since there are units facing to the west, it can get pretty warm/hot in the afternoon hours. And I really don't want to shell out 300-400 bucks for a portable AC for just 1 month use before the actual AC unit is turned on. Great video!
Thank you for this video. I totally understand how good and money-saving this would be for a hot climate but it is also brilliant for the UK weather because we only need one here for a few days in the year when we have a heatwave…..and so then we can either put it away after use till next year, Or even discard it and build another then. 👍👍👍👏👏👏
I feel deja vu from this from video hmm...
You can't cool any space unless you throw the heat out of the window! The fridge will produce more heat freezing the ice used to cool the room.
Only applicable if you have a fridge somewhere in the non-living room, or if you freeze the ice at night (when it's not hot) and use it during the day.
The 2nd option is what I do to make "backup" ice in case I need them to cool myself or to put in front of a fan, etc.
@C That could be leveraged too indeed. :)
I lived in Arizona for 11 years, and trust me it gets hot there, REALLY hot. The "technical" name for these is 'evaporative cooler'. In Arizona they use water rather than ice, and they are very effective. This small version DOES work IF:
1> the humidity is below 50% (from USA Today)
2> you use other small fans to circulate the air in the room (this also works with regular AC, according to my electric provider
running an 8 inch table top fan will make a room feel 10 degrees cooler and according to my tests this is true, FYI my table
top fan uses 42 watts)
3> the room you are trying to cool is not too big (ie, the larger the space the more ice or water and fans you need)
As to your freezer working harder to freeze the ice all I can say is LOL! It's common knowledge that a full freezer is more
efficient than a half empty one! but that's easy enough to check for yourself - i'm betting your freezer will come on at the
same or nearly the same rate - what really makes your freezer work harder is opening the door, DUH! Your freezer HAS to come on at a certain rate no matter what anyway.
And finally, even if you live in a more humid climate, this is an excellent emergency measure if your AC goes out in the middle of July.
Thank you for this video :-)
+female small PS- some of you REALLY should have stayed awake during basic science class! LOL!
+female small PS- some of you REALLY should have stayed awake during basic science class! LOL!
+female small PS- some of you REALLY should have stayed awake during basic science class! LOL!
Thanks for the info. I'm considering this ice chest option to cool my very small closet/vocal booth (not ventilated) in Los Angeles. I don't have central air, just a window A/C...but it's loud and also too complicated to run a duct to the closet.
But I'm wondering if the ice chest A/C generates any condensation that might damage electronics and condenser microphones. I have two mics, an LED monitor, and bluetooth keyboard and mouse in there...and a guitar amp.) I'm not entirely sure but, isn't this slightly different than a swamp cooler, since the water/ice remains in plastic bottles?
More importantly, if there is condensation from the ice chest A/C, does that lead to a possible mold situation? Or could it also lead to rust on some metals?
And I've seen others recommend a de-humidifier if there's condensation. Or am I just overthinking this?
Why did you leave arizona?
having built one of these before i think its important to note that the water bottles tend to melt pretty quickly, and need to be restocked constantly but it still works really well
The bigger, the longer they lasts. I got huge ice "flats" in the freezer for that reason. Those should lasts for hours each.
The return removes the humidity as stated on the TRANE website as follows, "Once warm air inside your home blows across the indoor evaporator coil, its heat energy transfers to the refrigerant inside the coil. That transfer, in turn, “cools” the air. The refrigerant is pumped back to the compressor where the cycle begins again. The heat absorbed by the refrigerant is moved outside your home while cooled air is blown inside. Moisture that contributes to humidity is also condensed out of the air.
gotta thank you again! i've got this built up and running right now keeping me from running out of my room lol. works great!
How long does your ice last before melting?
seriously thinking of building this right now...
In today's money, it would cost $30.00
although the fans or pump can be low power, making the ice takes a lot of power. Therefore, have a long hose that goes deep underground for constant temps down there. This brings down the cost of the energy you have to expend to cool. Use windshield wiper fluid NOT water so that it doesn't freeze at that layer in the ground that can freeze.
It's 101* and only getting hotter throughout the next week...this is a fantastic idea. Got my supply list written and headed to the hardware store tomorrow! Thanks!!
He measured the temperature of the air coming out only. He didn't record a change of temperature in the room.
THANK YOU!!!!
That's cause he's a man.
You want a 30 minute video of temperature dropping?
@@TheTreitmaniac Thank you what? Not like the person said something that profound. Lmao.
@@atrantech11 why would you need a 30 minute video of temp dropping just show 10 seconds temperature in room before. Let the thing run for 1 hour (off camera) 10 seconds temperature after. It's not that hard to do
There is a way to design it for a little more work and money, you need
to have the fan blowing under the ice, add styrofoam, or plastic inside
to direct the air to go either under the ice, or through the ice. A
little more effort, but much more efficient.
I am curious on how much the temp in the room dropped. Did you test this?
Built one for $21 a bit more then $8 since i dint have a fan and i got a better vent for the air. got it for my bedroom as my wall unit is in the living room and doesnt really cover it well. It worked just fine . turned it on a hour before i go to bed and it was nice and comfy in there when i went to sleep.
You can use this idea in the winter time and it works even better
To all those commentators that can not see why the freezer has to work harder, because "it is always on"
Even though the device itself is always on, the compressor that runs the cooling unit is not. It is controlled by a thermostat.
So the compressor is switched off when the inside temperature goes below a certain threshold and back on when the temperature has increased above another certain threshold.
Thus, when you put a lot of water bottles inside the freezer the compressor will run for a longer time in order for the device to pump the heat out of the water and into the room outside the freezer.
I tried this idea myself a couple of summers ago to cool my office, well aware in advance, that I wold make the kitchen, where the freezer is located, hotter.
Now, the cooling effect I experiences in the office was not to my satisfaction. And the kitchen became so hot that it was unbearable to stay there, not to mention doing any cooking.
Good thing I have a freezer in my garage.
10 years ago this would cost $8. Now you are looking at at least $30. Corporate greed. CEO's need multiple mansions, 6 figure cars, and never enough $$ in their portfolios to satisfy their sociopathic egos.
Sorry, but the costs are much different:
Fan $10.00
Ducts $10.00
Styrofoam cooler $5.00
Electricity used to make ice and run fan $2.00 PER day.
Cheaper den air con
And you think this is honestly going to be anywhere near as good as a AC, ZED?
works for me im in az in a apartment with a swamp cooler the electricity is free so even at 25 dollars it works and your just looking for the coolers in all the wrong places
ZED Masterofshadows
Better invest in a quality AC Mr. ZED. You're going to need it when you arrive in my kingdom.
i dont know where r you, but in my country, a fan like this just $2;
1 duct= $0.5 and styrofoam cooler = $1.
2 things, Ill start by telling you that I'm currently in a A/C class at Lincoln tech with the 3rd best grade, and i just got my ASE 609 A/C handling license. (AKA, I would say I know what I'm taking about) there's 2 things wrong here. One, a A/C unit physically removes heat from the air and moves it outside of where its cooling. this system is simply blowing out air from a cooler, which feels cold, but your never getting rid of the heat, just masking it for a little bit. Also, I've yet to see anyone comment on the fact that a infrared laser temp gun cant measure the temperature of a gas only solid objects. so all he showed you at the end was the temp of either the cooler box or vent material, not the air coming out
Remember, it is the surface area that makes all the difference. Having "shelves" of ice, or a lot of chunks spread out, would make it even colder, but may also melt it faster. It's a trade-off you'll have to decide. If you happen to have a deep freezer for meats, etc., like I do, it can go as low as -16 to -20C, and will also take much longer to melt. Certain gel packs also take longer to melt, but may also transfer cold more slowly, so decide what works best for the situation.
Question: Doesn't the heat from the freezer creating the iced jugs offset the cooling they provide from the cooler? ... Great way to make portable cool... but the temperature would be netted out in the same room as the freezer...
You would still save a lot of money. Air conditioners use up a lot of power, cost a lot and are heavy as hell. Also most normal air conditioners pollute way more.
Absolutely, it's a great idea, and it would save money vs. and air conditioner! You bet!
But wouldn't your freezer be running regardless
Yep. Net effect would actually be warmer, since freezers aren't perfectly efficient. We humans are really good at heating things up. But not so good at cooling them down. Heat is just energy. We displace the energy to produce cooling. We very rarely trap energy in chemical bonds with a net cooling effect. But we release energy in chemical bonds all the time. So yeah, we're pretty good at heating things up. Not so good at cooling them down. But a freezer compresses air, making it very hot in the process. Then it holds it at high pressure until it cools down (heating the surrounding environment in the process). Then in decompressing that now room-temperature air, the air becomes cold. Look up the gas laws, PV=nRT, if you want to understand why this works. But it's just a displacement of the heat.
For anyone that wants to do this on a smaller scale for your bedroom, I also made a smaller version powered by USB. USB Powered Mini A/C!
Legit Name
Yep.
That'd be nifty for #Gamers :D
dude, you got that from kipkay i think
HouseholdHacker GENIUS!!! Excellent idea, cheep as can be, but I do so wonder if the same thing can be done WITH a deepfreezer and a much more powerful fan. Just wildly thinking here.
How is your jaw doing?
That is for sure an improvement on a camping trick I used to use when I slept in my van by putting a frozen gallon milk jug on a folded up bath towel in front of a fan and having the fan blowing behind the iced jug. Worked great for about four hours until the ice melted at which time I replaced it or started a new day. Thanx for sharing
This isn't quite as good for the electric bill as people might think. When you put that much water in a freezer, it "shocks" the freezer, and it ends up using a lot of electricity just to get it to cool down. This is because everything else in the freezer absorbs the heat from the water you just put in, and if it's hot enough to need an air conditioner, even the coldest tap water is going to be quite warm.
So making the water into ice is not free, and is not a flat rate. If you do this, you will see your electric bill spike more than just what running the fan costs. However, I cannot really say by how much because it varies based on the insulation of the freezer, how much people are opening the freezer to grab things like icecream, and even how much water you're freezing and how frequently.
Ur stupid
TheIndhrbdis
If you disagree, please state why. Basing your response on "ur stupid" is just an argumentum ad hominem fallacy, and by no means an actual legitimate argument. By the way it's "you're" not "ur".
***** Would you care to defend your thesis?
Jenny Tokumei there is no way for the freezer to sence the water you put on there. Yes the freezer ramps up and down and stops at times but this is normal because it trys to maintain a steady temp. There is no "shock" just it doing its job
Katton Doss
The freezer has a thermostat that monitors the temperature in the freezer to make sure that it keeps the freezer within a certain range. This thermostat is not much unlike the one that controls central air conditioners for houses, businesses, and apartments. If you put liquid water in the freezer, then the freezer becomes warmer, the thermostat detects this and the freezer has to work harder. Also my use of the word shock does not refer to electric shock, but thermal shock.
Do some fucking research before you open your mouth and make yourself look like a fool.
I made two of these coolers, in Canada,the cost came to $35-40 each. Unfortunately, while they do help 'somewhat' if they are two inches from your body, they definitely will not cool a master bedroom in 37C heat. They help a bit. The design could be much better.....you need a more powerful fan, you need to fun some pipe inside that comes under the ice, not just on top, which does not much other than to melt the ice faster. If I made another, I would use a marine blower, a real cooler and would run the pipe inside and have the ice cool the pipe rather than blow just the top of the ice......there are more video's on youtube that show these builds. Thanks for the great idea though! Just wasn't really as effective as I had hoped.
Thank you! We moved into a new home's AC works really bad. I feel so hot in my bedroom. So this is going to help! I needed that! Thanks!
Hmmm, depending on what you are doing, take your or a t-shirt, wet it, ring it out, put it on = natural refrigeration as the T-shirt dries. Cost $0.00 Same principle as a wine skin. Try it sometime :)
that's what i do with my bed sheets ;)
Nope Nova Scotia
Back in the day of water beds, folks would be amazed the dealta between summer or winter settings was only 2-3 degrees F
I wonder how the cost of freezing all that water compares to the cost of running an air conditioner.
Really??? You can't be serious!
Physics doesn't lie.
Landrew0 but it probably doesnt cost as much as the air conditioner
Landrew0 Physics doesn't lie but that's not really relevant here. "Most" people have freezers in their refrigerators that are already constantly on and a freezer doesn't burn more electricity when you put more stuff in it. It works at the same rate regardless.
So, the only issue is the amount of electricity for running an air conditioner versus the amount necessary to run the fan. Those are the variables. The freezer is a constant.
Your refrigerator already runs 24-7 - so it will not add any cost as far as for freezing the water
I can't wait to try this. Hate having a A/C unit hogging the window as I like to take advantage of FRESH air on cooler days.
Cheap and easy. It works. No high expectations. Just sit in front of the vent. When your house is a sauna, this is a lifesaver.
The problem with these sorts of "air conditioners" is that freezing the water causes a net gain (of heat) in the building. It is more efficient to run a small air conditioner to get the equivalent amount of cooling. Also, comfort on a hot day requires cooling and dehumidifying the air. This "air conditioner" will dehumidify a slight amount but nowhere near as well as a traditional AC. I think this type of cooling system would work well for camping if you can pipe the air into a sleeping bag.
This is meant to cool off a small room. Unless you are running it in your kitchen I do not think the fridge is going to affect you.
HouseholdHacker I don't think you know how thermodynamics works...
your absolutely correct, this project is useless and will actually heat your house. when you put something in your freezer that is warm, it must run the compressor more often to maintain the temperature inside the freezer until that something is at the same temperature as the freezer, this creates extra heat on the outside of the fridge, and it will ALWAYS generate more heat than it can cold, due to friction and other efficiency losses in the compressor. this is why air conditioners exist, they send all the heat created out of the house, and all the cold air inside. the only possible way for householdhackers idea to actually work would be if you had your fridge outside, or if you buy ice from the gas station
RickMakes it may increase the heat created by the refrigerator but you would have to look a the efficiency of an air conditioner versus this method (of a specific design) and divide by the cost of electricity to determine which is more efficient.
1 device designed for a specific purpose of cooling air (air conditioner) is going to be more efficient than a fridge/freezer+fan, if it was more efficient to use a fridge, then air conditioners wouldn't exist. point being, using this air conditioner or a real air conditioner to cool the same room, the real air conditioner will ALWAYS be more efficient, cool a larger space and do it faster. you can either save money in the short term and build this, or save money in the long term and buy a small room air conditioner. btw do some research, this video basically shows how the first air conditioners worked before the industrial age. "if you cant stand the heat, get out of the kitchen"
People in the 2022 heatwave…
On a whole, this will *heat* your house. The heat in the liquid water in the bottles is pumped into the house by the freezer. The heat in the room where you place this device will be transferred to the ice bottles. The cycle continues when you place the thawed bottles in the freezer. But because nothing is 100% efficient - the freezer, the fan, ect, there is heat produced by everything plugged in to the wall. Now this isn't to say this won't move heat from your bedroom to the kitchen so that you can manage to sleep without waking up in a puddle of sweat, but do try to think of this as a temp solution and not something to be relied upon long term.
Dear Household Hacker,
Question I thought might be interesting to see. As we know salt water has a lower freezing temperature than regular water; how would the temperature this handy dandy A/C differ if you were to freeze some water bottles with a salt water solution instead of regular water????
I did all this but the temperature of the air coming out of the bucket filled with ice was only around 65 degrees F. The temperature in my room didn't change at all. (78 deg. F before and 78 deg. F after). I had the fan on for over an hour with no change in the overall temp of the room. Anyone have similar problems?
dry ice is c02, and you cant breath c02
TheNewRiflemanBob you either have humidity above 50% which he states this will not help or you have too big a room or not enough ice..which when melted must be exchanged. Using additional fans can help. Not if the humidity is over 50%. An air conditioner is different this is an evaporated cooler. Try just pointing it at you in the room like you would with a fan.
this does not work. I made it and I've had it running for an hour and my room doesn't feel any cooler. The only benefit is that it cools your face when you put your face in front of it, but you can just do that with a fan.
Yep FUCKING WASTE of time and money, if my roommates werent crackheads, we could have AC. but the money i pay them for rent is used on crack... fuckin POS LOSERS... im fuckin heated right now, sorry....
dustin b you might want to consider new roommates
what a Great idea. Bet this would be great for camping, using a battery power fan.
I am so gonna make one of these for camping this summer... It will be perfect for my tent!
I hate it when videos over-hype what they offer and subsequently throw that little nugget of knowledge in later... like "How to build a cheap greenhouse for $5!" and then the guy in the video is like "Oh, herp-a-derp, my uncle owns a lumber yard and I'm next to a PVC dumping ground and my cousin has all these old fasteners, so it's practically free!" Yeah, don't have that laying around...
That's just me venting though. Long story short... $8, minus a fan... fan isn't included in that.
@Charlie Ennis and a ac unit chugs down more energy
This works though. Also, you can use basic chemistry knowledge to maximise cooling performance
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@@kiyoponnn Wut..
dryer vents are 10 dollars at my home depot...
how long does the ice last?
30 mins i think depends on how hot it is.
Karl Vaager Well remember the fan is cooling the ice aswell as the room its not gonna keep it frozen but it will help :)
Depends. Maybe 3-6 hours. Just have more bottles freezing while the others melt. Simple!
add salt to make it cooler
Add salt to the water or the Box? I suppose the water.
That was awesome because of its simplicity. Very doable. Thank you for that.
I feel like no amount of thanks will go far enough. But thank you. 🙏
I actually tried this and for every one saying on here that it dose not work. NO!!!!! it dose work you just have to be patient. No its not going cool down your hole house. This is for 1 room or a 1 bed room. And yes it will take at least a few hours for you to notice the difference. By me saying that the one room I had the home aid air conditioner on was cooler then all the other rooms in the house with the windows open. people jusy need to be patient that's all
You mean does * not dose ;)
home aid? home made* also, than*
I suppose it depends on how a self made air conditioner is constructed. I imagine if i put my mind to it, i could build a more efficient one.
steve b Why don't you. >_>
chase is on the case ryder sir
Anyone with a hint of understanding of basic thermodynamics knows this is not very effective and is very inefficient. As a mechanical engineer, I've see and tried doing similar things in the past, but ultimately they fail, and you can't make an effective cooling device just with ice and fans, it just won't work when you take all things into consideration.
To keep it simple and quick:
1) Consider the energy increase and heat produced by your freezer while freezing all those bottles of water, as you load up your freezer with items, it has a harder job to do.
2) Consider the fact that this little AC won't cool down any room, no matter how small, it will just make noise and blow slightly cold air, it will only be effective if it blows directly at you from a short distance....but then again, a normal fan (like the one he uses) does exactly the same, and has the same coldness effect, because it blows the air faster than the flow is through those two small tubes, and makes up for the lack of ice with higher airflow.
3) The hotter the room = less effective this will be = faster the ice will melt = more time spent freezing ice in your freezer = more electricity spent = more heat generated by the freezer = overloading the freezer might lead to it's failure, especially during hot days.
4) Moisture, the last thing you want during this summer heat, when you're sweating all the time as it is, is high humidity in your room, and that's what this thing will bring you, as the ice is in contact with hot air around it, lots of humidity will be released into the air. If you wanted the AC to be effective at least a bit in the first place, you would have closed the windows, otherwise the hot air coming in would cancel out the effects. But closing the windows would built up the humidity really quickly.
A way to slightly improve the design of this would be to use a container with better insulation properties, using those little cold packs that stay frozen far longer than water ( I don't know how you call them in english)and using some kind of a filter for humidity, which would all make this project as expensive as buying a small portable AC.
So while this looks cool, and works if you want something loud to blow slightly cold and very humid air into your face from 1 meter away, it's ultimately just an inefficient gimmick.
How inefficient? Well...imagine it this way, what you're effectively doing is almost exactly the same (even less efficient) as opening your freezer, and blowing a fan into the freezer so as to force the cold air out of it. That's what you're doing here, except you're not using the freezer itself as a container for ice, you're using it to produce ice, and then use that ice in a far less efficient container that won't hold the temperature nearly as well. So even though opening your freezer in order to cool your room is clearly ridiculous, this project is actually even less efficient.
Stick with a regular fan or get a real AC. Don't believe anything you see on youtube just because it looks cool. Most of these "diy hacks" on youtube don't work and end up like really bad ideas when you actually think about them.
derbigpr500 Well you'll never know unless you actually try. I'm going to make this tonight and if it doesn't work, well...I'll only be out a few bucks, so no biggie.
Edit: My mistake. You said you did try similar things and it failed. Well, I'm still going to try it out for myself.
Darion Chambers Its not a matter of trying, this will cost more money than an AC to operate, but it can cool a single room well.
aSASa45454 Just curious, how will it cost more money than an AC?
JustPlayMusicGroup Yes, this ended up working for me as well but the only reason I didn't like it was because it made my room really humid, like, uncomfortably humid, like, I-can-slice-the-air-with-a knife type of humid. So I ended up looking on craigslist and bought a window ac off a guy for 30 bucks. Now I'm cool AND dry. Stay cool, bro.
Odell Atkinson Yeah, I did. Please refer to the post above yours.
Creative. I have heard though that this makes the air concentration of water higher though which risks things in your home
Did the 5 gallon bucket one for my car. Works very nice.
If you're into the Celsius thing? Do you mean the rest of the world?
lol
It's a goddamn joke, and you let it fly over your head like an F16.
+Der Pinguin wow you have a good sense of humour
Connor Hobbs conformist
triggered much?
Oh yeah, $8 if I just happen to *conveniently* have have the fan first.
Touche'. It's $18 for you!
This is an outrage!
And a cutter, and bottles of water :p
And a cutter, and bottles of water :p
Spiguel Not necessarily a house ;)
Never tried this but it sounds absolutely amazing...Really hope it works
I'm in Florida. My AC broke & I literally slept on ice. I'M IN FLORIDA! Luckily it's been repaired.
The amount of energy your refrigerator takes to freeze all that stuff is more than then energy a good quality air conditioner would use to efficiently cool a room.
Yeah, but since your fridge stays on 24/7 anyway, why not utilize it to freeze the bottles and ice packs along the way, right?
@@j.bristow8397 No because the refrigerator uses way more energy to freeze water into ice than it does otherwise.
And for those who know a bit about physics know that this will increase the net temp of your house. Do to the fact that both your refrigerator and fan are not loss-less, when you freeze ice in your refrigerator it makes your house warming. Your refrigerator transfers the heat from inside the refrigerator to outside, which is still in you house. This is why all AC units are BOTH inside and outside.
That's why you buy bags of ice too, or use a freezer outside of the air conditioned space. Or you can cool one room in a house by insulating it from the rest of the house. e.g. seal off the air return gap under the door.
Exhaust heat from the refrigerator could be re-directed outside.
What you're saying is the heat produced from freezing the water is going to raise the temperature of your house. Freeze the water bottles at night when heat isn't an issue, then use the frozen water bottles in the air conditioner during day when it's hot.
shhhpankie Local cooling could be useful, but bags of ice will quickly become more costly the a low cost AC unit. IE, a ice at $3 per day will cost the same as a $120 AC unit after 40 days.
bourneyesterdayi That would assume you house get to a reasonable temperature at night. There are a lot of places where it is 75+ at night. So, you would trade, 100' days and 75' nights for 90' days and 87' nights... I will pass, thanks.
to make it last longer, do this inside the cooler, laid it with heavy salt, then crushed ice then, then salt, then ice again, last salt, then sealed or topped it with aluminum foam as insulator. Now closed tight the cooler. This is proven to me. The more salt the longer the ice will last. Please remove the ice from its plastic so salt can react to them. Salt Lowers the Freezing Point
I used this in business to cool my ice cream outside for a day. I make a bore in the middle and seat there my Scramble flavor and ice cream.
Thank you thank you Soo much for this,it's inexpensive, so easy, and not time consuming at all to make! Reuseable and headache free! My kids and I thankyou so much!
I was thinking, "How would I do this without using ice cubes and just refreezing the water into large ice chunks. Water bottles, Perfect.
supercj12 Yes, and you don't have to worry about the humidity build up in the room affecting electronics when the ice melts.