Sir your air cooler designs give a new meaning for the phrase, “Simple Pleasures are the Best”!💨😎👍 Thanks again for sharing!
@desertsun023 жыл бұрын
Thank you! Cheers!
@BrassLock7 жыл бұрын
I'm feeling hot and bothered at midnight in the tropics right now, trying to sleep with just a fan. Then I get your notification, and see how creative and educational you are about simple remedies using common household items to get cool. Thanks for your clear thinking and summary of good ideas.
@docink61757 жыл бұрын
these arent as effective in humid climates like here in florida but they do provide some relief
@spcyakima10777 жыл бұрын
I tried the "planter box" cooler and the temperature in my room dropped 6°F in just 30 minutes and still dropping. Thanks for the video.
@allaboutmarie._6 жыл бұрын
SPCyakima107 I tried it it didn’t work 😭
@adambischoff1284 жыл бұрын
Have to be in dry climate otherwise you need a/c.
@mmgibson15 жыл бұрын
Super helpful ideas! I live in an apartment where air conditioners have to be the kind that fits into a wall, and anyway, they are too expensive to buy or to run when it comes to electricity. I do have several fans, but it gets to a point where they simply blow the hot air around. I bet I can hack something like this with stuff I have around already, which is awesome now that it is in the hottest period of summer.
@beneaththefloorboards2 жыл бұрын
🔥 I'm so excited to try these today! This was everything I was looking for + a whole bunch of models I never would have thought of. Thanks!
@desertsun022 жыл бұрын
hi there. you bet! i glad you like them.
@Willowtable7 жыл бұрын
You are one helpful human. I appreciate your creations and mash ups and very smart easy to watch videos that help me see solutions to things. I will be using your fan evap ideas in my barn this summer. Thank you! PS you are one of the better yt channels and you don't ask for money. 💜
@desertsun027 жыл бұрын
hi there and thanks.
@BrassLock7 жыл бұрын
+Willowtable : Wish I could give you more than just one "thumbs up" for your comment. I agree with your sentiments.
@larryrawlings75084 жыл бұрын
We have this old fridge. Inside the fridge we put a roll of copper tubing , (50' x 1/4 "). And strung it under the house. Then made snail-like coils in each room with computer fans behind them and trays with sponge pads to catch the condesate moisture. We power the fans with cheap car battery solar chargers and run each motor through a thermostat. We have a fish tank pump pumping water through the tube and since the fridge only gets around 40°Fahrenheit the coldness is distributed to each room as needed. Very cheap central air cooling. But it doesn't take the moisture out of the air it puts it in. Many of the southern states use swamp cooler systems because the dry heat is not conducive to helping mold spores grow. The cost is minimal and the cooling is fairly amazing.
@georgeplagianos64872 жыл бұрын
Are interesting I'm curious you have an old refrigerator how old is it? I wonder if it's efficient enough cuz maybe it's working harder and it can only manage to get 40°, not even the ice freezer? I wonder what your electric bill is. I guess I hadn't always refrigerator it's horrible I had it from 19 years and every month it worked it cost me about $75 to run for like 6 months 8 months. Then I shut it and put a small under the countertop fridge cuz I haven't been using it much. And that bill comes to like $45.. please tell us what your electric bill is I wonder the old refrigerators probably have to work harder they just maintain 40° like my old fridge did but good luck I hope you find some relief I hope this summer doesn't get horrendous. Stay cool and stay safe thanks
@jrlagoni2 жыл бұрын
Fascinating. Now I don't need to budget $300 for a Mighty Kool next month for my small camper! Already have a good, robust dc fan (solar) to move my heater air around in winter so I'm actually excited about my hot Utah summer coming. Thanks, and and great work.
@desertsun022 жыл бұрын
you bet. glad i could help. i've got 3 new evap cooler builds coming out this summer (hopefully). one is a monster sized one and the other two are indirect units *one small and one large (indirect meaning no added humidity).
@clementinemonroe7174 жыл бұрын
100 in Atlanta air went out, thank you this helped Especially the wet towel fan huge difference!!!
@desertsun024 жыл бұрын
wow, 100? this time of year. glad it helped! that wet towel fan one is great. and so easy.
@GPCster6 жыл бұрын
When showing the resulting cooler temperature, it would be informative to know what the pre-cooler temperature was.
@GPCster6 жыл бұрын
Aha. I replayed and heard you say 66° air with ambient temp 80°. Thanks.
@otiliocar3 жыл бұрын
I tried the bucket for a small garage and it brought my temp down from high 80s to mid 70s after about 2hrs
@celiali73732 жыл бұрын
For hot, humid environments, wet a T-shirt in warm water, wring out, and put it on. Also, wet your hair. Now, use fan to cool off. This works especially well to cool off kids in a hot and humid upper duplex, or similar circumstance such as in a car without air conditioning. Just open the windows in the car to serve as your fan. These methods are tried and true, and could come in helpful to some.
@Karmer3 жыл бұрын
Number 5 was genius! Thank you.
@48956l5 жыл бұрын
I just draped a wet washcloth on my fan after seeing this and it's already cooler in here-- amazing how much they'll charge you for this shit in stores
@lindsayhetzler72136 жыл бұрын
I am going to try one of these. We have a seasonal trailer and only a 20 amp site. We upgraded all our bulbs, a brand new energy efficient fridge and microwave! While we don't blow fuses anymore...the microwave isn't getting to full power. It just takes longer to cook everything. So running the AC that it came with is a no go! We've tried with everything off, but the fridge, and it automatically pops the fuse. We have done OK with just fans. We are close to the ocean and surrounded by tree's and shade. But there has been a few times where it was really humid and the heat seems to just sit in the trailer. Thats with windows and fans open! This may be a solution since the space is only 30 by 20 feet and I would guess with cabinets, closets and furniture, takes up 30 percent of that space. I hope this works!
@RachelaReno Жыл бұрын
This guy's a genius
@Rcrdo0722 жыл бұрын
Its much effective or cooler if you just let the cloth or sponge to get wet well then shutoff the pump to let the water evaporate from the cloth and then when its about to get dry wet it again or you better put a timer or sensor on your pump to activate when the cloth is already dried.
@dncook19552 жыл бұрын
Great job. Great ideas. Thanks for sharing.
@desertsun022 жыл бұрын
Glad you like them!
@blueskygal2553 жыл бұрын
Thank you for your ingenuity. a/c broken. just put wet hanky on my fan and it's much cooler where i am writing this now!
@desertsun023 жыл бұрын
Excellent!
@ChristineWesner2 жыл бұрын
YOU ARE AWESOME!! Thank you!! 🙌🏻🙌🏻
@jimd16179 ай бұрын
wow! thanks :)
@desertsun029 ай бұрын
Our pleasure!
@BeccaL20165 жыл бұрын
Put salt onto the ice, will cool fast too
@cinemacynic9803 жыл бұрын
The ice will melt faster though. Adding salt only lowers the freezing temp of water, it doesn't cool off ice, only melts it.
@kimberlyquintanilla54935 жыл бұрын
Just what I needed. Great ideas and video!
@Dana-xx2yv7 жыл бұрын
Those are great ideas! Thanks for sharing!
@ItsAllInTheBag5 жыл бұрын
Thanks man. Keeping cool!
@obduliocerceno49847 жыл бұрын
Thanks a lot buddy.... Great ideas!!!!
@jimmartin2436 жыл бұрын
Exhaust fans on portable air conditioners kick out very hot air so it would be great to use to suck up hot air through a filter and kick out air to an evaporative cooler. I thought about using it for green house use has well.
@davidkalger Жыл бұрын
Make a vent to throw the hot air outside,use metal dúcts to direct out a window
@TRACELHENTZ2 жыл бұрын
Genius!
@SurvivalLiving5 жыл бұрын
Great ideas for a prepper like myself
@jimmartin2436 жыл бұрын
Use a large Pvc pipe place a pad inside run a drip system to the top of the Pvc that feeds in from the base you can fill with ice water with a salvaged exhaust blower fan from a portable air conditioner taking in air from the room that has an air filter that sends air through a Pvc T and forces air through the evaporation pad. My portable air conditioner broke yet the exhaust worked great so I thought of another way to use it rather then throwing it away. Its heat rated so its great for desert.
@augustawilliamsjr.28986 жыл бұрын
Genius
@cherilynnfisher56582 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@desertsun022 жыл бұрын
You're welcome!
@faou6663 жыл бұрын
Very good video
@laurapettenger81765 жыл бұрын
Awesome 👍
@johnhopkins62603 жыл бұрын
varieties of Swamp Cooler... Misting Cooler is commonplace at outdoor restaurants in Tel Aviv
@piebald6 жыл бұрын
Do you like the box fan or the five gallon bucket better? Or is another one of the builds your favorite?
@danielmpr6 жыл бұрын
Not bad! I gotta try this out!
@charlielester31985 жыл бұрын
Thank you for great ideas and how to
@ElectronicsForFun6 жыл бұрын
l have a plan for a great cooler for somebody who lives off grid and doesn't have the power to run an air conditioner. get a few electronic fans for a car radiator, those are great because they are 12v brushless fans which gives you better power efficiency when you're running off of batteries and solar panels. and since they are designed to cool a car engine. they can move lots of air for their small size. so here is how it works. you build a box out of whatever you want wood, metal, glass, plastic, whatever. and then you seal the sides up with silicone or something to make it air tight. and inside the box is going to be 2 partitions. one partition is an evaporative pad with empty space behind it where it can pull in air. l am calling this the "water box" because this is also where the reservoir and the water pump will be stored. and there will be a little inlet a few inches wide for air to enter the water box. you can run ducting from this inlet to the inside of your house or shed so that you can recycle the air instead of constantly trying to cool hot air from outside. or you can put a filter of some kind on it and just pull air from the outside if you don't want your space to get too humid (or you could do both). and then in the center of the box between the 2 partitions is going to be what l call the "cooling box" which is a middle space where the fans are creating a small vacuum that pulls air through the evap pads and into this box which is where you get the cold air. and then the other side of the partition has the fans mounted where they pull the air from the cooling box. and these fans are blowing into what l call the "air box" which where the fans create a positive pressure zone that forces out the cold air through a ducting system into the house. so far l just described an overly sophisticated swamp cooler. now here is where it gets interesting. the problem with swamp coolers is that they don't work very well in climates where it's already humid, because they cool the air by humidifying it and if the air is already humid then it's cooling efficiency goes down. so there is going to be a second cooling box that connects to the cooler's inlet and in this secondary cooling box there will ice, and the vacuum in the first cooling box is pulling air through the water box which has it's inlet connected to a secondary cooling box so it's bring already cold air into water box so the evap cooling box doesn't need to cool the air as much since it doesn't work by itself.
@jsmariani41804 жыл бұрын
Don't forget to open a window a bit to reduce the humidity.
@musiconlyplease986 жыл бұрын
Great ideas!
@lindsayhetzler72136 жыл бұрын
You do need electricity to run a fan! Unless you run a fan off solar power!
@futuresdojo3 жыл бұрын
Are you placing the end of the hose back into the water reservoir or are you plugging it to ensure enough pressure is building up from the holes in the tubing? Thanks for clarifying.
@desertsun023 жыл бұрын
hi there. i'm just clamping off (plugging) the tubing on the 5 gallon bucket evap.👍🙂
@NRBELLO6 жыл бұрын
Flipping Legend
@vegetablepolice14 жыл бұрын
Fan and water bucket humidifier with frozen spunges
@torianobailey66097 жыл бұрын
is it possible to put something like that in a car or van
@dawnturner70105 жыл бұрын
I think it should be. I just bought a little USB fan that will run off my car battery without drawing too much power. I'm going to try putting a wet wash cloth in front of it and see how it works.
@greenacresfan7685 жыл бұрын
Before air conditioning as it is today you could buy swamp cooler type air conditioners for your car.
@sevenoseven84945 жыл бұрын
Just fix your cars ac.
@TheRoman8r5 жыл бұрын
Toriano Bailey ive always thought about running some pvc towards the front and into the cab on the end in the car put a wet towel or pad Boom forced air evap cooler....just a thought
@brazyuniverse42214 жыл бұрын
@@dawnturner7010 You can use a dirty wet sock.
@tymek21066 жыл бұрын
Very clean and easy explained. Question to master. Do you think I may be able to take a part small square fridge components without disconnecting any pipes and use it to cool down water even more?? Fridge freezer or fridge is in mostly every home, is it? I hope I'm not become a idiot couz this idea. I just hope it will be awesome upgrade with most of as can afford. Anyway I start building your project on 24. I share with results. Respect
@TheRainHarvester2 жыл бұрын
What is your electric bill?! You have many great projects!!
@naphtalieh.gbolahan25686 жыл бұрын
Thank you!!!!!
@T1MB05L1C32 жыл бұрын
With the box fan cooler, I'm guessing there's a way to modify it so the drip water just goes back into the reservoir?
@WonkyGrub Жыл бұрын
do they work better in low humidity environments? i would assume so because evaporation would be easier if the air is less humid to start
@desertsun02 Жыл бұрын
hi yes, they work the best in lower humidity (but can work pretty well in moderate humidity too)
@roxannecash75862 жыл бұрын
What if you don’t have all them bits what if you only have a fan standard one
@twinboosted03185 жыл бұрын
My girlfriend and I just made an ac cooler that doesn't really work. We have. Copper tubing on the fan 3/8 in and 1/2 in out going into a cooler filled with water and several ice packs. We also have a fountain pump that is flowing I believe 160 gpm. When I touch the water it is cold however through the 20ft of copper it is cold also but not as cold through the air with the fan. How can I actually get it to force more cold air through?
@lordmeme99655 жыл бұрын
You smart
@charleslobster35925 жыл бұрын
Try adding ice lol
@Dbf13397 жыл бұрын
Would the box fan version keep an RV 30ft cool around mid 70s or less
@tabby4990 Жыл бұрын
This would be good teach in hot poverty countries so they can cool down
@christinamussared22855 жыл бұрын
Doesn't help much in high humidity. Which happens to be what kind of heat we have.
@tabby4990 Жыл бұрын
How did you make the drip tubes and how do you get them to drip?
@desertsun02 Жыл бұрын
hi. originally i used a "push pin" to make holes in the clear vinyl tubing but now i use small drill bit (1/16th inch size or smaller). the drill bit works a bit better than using a push-pin because it actually removes some of the vinyl. i just use a pump to pump the water through the tube and it drips out the holes in the tube.
@commentbeast39854 жыл бұрын
Is this an aquarium air pump? Or is there a certain pump that pumps water
@desertsun024 жыл бұрын
hi. i use aquarium water pumps
@blumuc877 жыл бұрын
desertsun02, have you tried to build an INDIRECT evaporative cooler that does not increase the humidity of the air?
@desertsun027 жыл бұрын
hi there. since indirect evap. cooling systems are much more complex (and i live in a dry area) i haven't attempted that yet.
@Dbf13397 жыл бұрын
Would the box fan version keep an RV 30ft cool like mid 70s or lower?
@Dbf13396 жыл бұрын
This ended up back in my recommend thanks for the answer to my question dushe
@patfiore75106 жыл бұрын
Wow where can we buy one
@sunflowerspanda10 ай бұрын
What is the blue material?
@desertsun0210 ай бұрын
hi there. the blue pad is technically called 'foamed polyester' evap cooler pad. can usually be found at home stores like home depot and lowes. cost about 10 dollars for a big sheet of it. note that it is usually way way overpriced on amazon.
@notimportant87382 жыл бұрын
Just get a shirt and wet it and stand infront of a fan
@desertsun022 жыл бұрын
it works too
@E-Cool7 жыл бұрын
i want to buy mastercool pad. Where i can find the same
@begladwme Жыл бұрын
Google
@charlielester31985 жыл бұрын
On video
@lynx2cross6 жыл бұрын
Ain't nobody got time for that
@begladwme Жыл бұрын
Ain't? You mean YOU ain't got time. Only time to waste on KZfaq. Probably the kind of person who only goes fishing by watching youtube or play tennis by watching tv or plays golf by watching tv. Or doesn't have time to cook a gourmet dinner but loves cooking shows.