Заметки некроманта
Будни инженера-чернокнижника
Q&D air conditioner (2.5 hrs to make one!)
It's damn hot in Russia now. no… Well, it's HOT AS HELL HERE.
This weekend sitting in my country house with no air conditioner there, I got finally just a bit too sick of it. Besides the heat the smoke from those damned fires is always around. (see photos under the cut)
Anyways, I got tired of my brain throttling 4 out 5 clock cycles due to overheat, I decided it's time for some hacking =). So I loaded some water into the fridge and while it was slowly turning to ice…
The setup is simple. I got two buckets. The smaller one I used as the water tank. I later added ice to the water. the bigger – as the main chamber. The pump (some old junk I found lying around) pumps the water up, and inside the big bucket it is sprinkled into small particles. I cooler fan I ripped of an old PC power supply pushes the air through this watery chamber. The resulting air is cool, and the smell of smoke&ash is finally gone. It took this baby about 10 minutes to clean the air in my room so that my brain began to function normally. Besides it cooled the air from 34 (Celsius) to about 30, till I ran out of ice.
I guess, that if this heat goes on I will have to make something more powerful. It's far better, than sitting in the basement all day… And more fun than buying a ready to use solution.
Here goes the video of the rig.
P.S. This is not the worst case of smoke you might see here. Back in the city it is a real 'gasenvagen' and even a real air conditioner doesn't help.
Go there...
http://necromant.ath.cx/wp/?p=214
Don
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