"5 Gallon Bucket" Air conditioner

[Pops1967GTX]

One of the smartest damn things I’ve seen in a long time!


[video=youtube;HxSLbpAwibg]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxSLbpAwibg[/video]

 

[coronet340]

I was thinkin it would be a lot of ice but that frozen gallon jug makes it well worth it. Good find.

 

[A383Wing]

that looks pretty neat..I might try and build one for the garage

 

[Coyoteduster]

I found a kit for these at my local Home depot with a much better fan, but they don't have the liner. Instead, you get a can of spray foam insulation. Has anyone seen the liners?

 

[coronet340]

I haven't. I didn't even know they made one for buckets. Maybe its a minnow bucket??

 

[MarPar]

Maybe its a minnow bucket??

Ha! that's what i was thinkin!

 

[Richard Cranium]

Nifty idea........if you're a broke-*** college kid living in squalor (which it looks like he is) playing playing video games on your bedbug infested sofa during the daytime, because a solar panel isn't going to work too well at night.

Realistically, you'd need about 30 of those things to cool off the garage and probably more if the engine is hot. Air conditioners are cheap these days. I'll go that route instead.

 

[coronet340]

Nifty idea........if you're a broke-*** college kid living in squalor (which it looks like he is) playing playing video games on your bedbug infested sofa during the daytime, because a solar panel isn't going to work too well at night.

Realistically, you'd need about 30 of those things to cool off the garage and probably more if the engine is hot. Air conditioners are cheap these days. I'll go that route instead.

True but it would be a good set up if you are inside the car working. Just throw it in the backseat a it will keep the cab cool.

 

[idrivemopar]

This is a great science project at work, showing how evaporative cooling works. Same principal with swamp coolers and the early days of automotive history when drives would hang linen bags(I think) on the front of their cars filled with water and when driven the water would evaporate and send cool air over the engine compartment.

 

[Budnicks]

Pops; I could see using it in a boat or duck/deer blind maybe even a cheap Camper/RV or better yet a tent or something, it's not a really bad idea, kind of good idea, I've seen the ice chest/coolers conversion before, actually worked pretty well... but not the 5 gallon bucket... I'm not sure I'd use it in my house, I'd buy a window unit or house fans or ceiling fans, if it got too bad, if I didn't have any money, just being an X generation gut/gal playing video games instead of a job etc...LOL... {for RC/DH}... I did suffer for a couple years here, with no A/C, $7000 upgrade & near $10k for all the insulation & a big 4.5 ton A/C-HVAC split system unit... But how, or let alone why, anyone in their right mind, wouldn't install an A/C unit especially here in Calif. where we have probably 8-9 months of 80*+ to 100* summer average weather most all years, in a $400k house, it's way beyond me... We did have a swamp cooler, what a piece of fecal matter, it cooled the house & made the house humid as hell... No thanks

 

[bobtile]

If I ever get thrown into solitary confinement, I would want one of those.

 

[coronet340]

If I ever get thrown into solitary confinement, I would want one of those.

You would have to spin the blade by hand. When I was in solitary they wouldn't let me have shoe laces, let alone an electrical cord.

 

[Meep-Meep]

That's...............Cool! (you knew it was coming)

Next road trip to LA I'm dumping 40 lbs of ice in the cowl and opening the cowl vents. White trash A/C!

 

[ws27]

OK, so the nerd in me is coming out. Bear with me on this.

One BTU is the energy required to raise on pound of water 1 degree F. So assuming the approx. 30 degree temp drop noted by his temp gun, the gallon of water is only good to about 40 degrees F or so. If you put the gallon in the freezer all night, it should get to about zero F. So the total BTU one gallon of water can absorb is roughly 340 BTU (8.5 lbs times 40 deg F delta T). And if it lasts for 5 hours like the guy said, this bucket will have a rating of approx. 68 BTU/HR. Roughly one one hundredth the average small window AC.

That puts it's cooling ability into perspective.

Feel free to point out any errors.

OK, now back under my rock I go.

 

[NJRR]

The gallon of water in the freezer all night still only gets to 32 degrees F, no matter how long it sits in the freezer, if I'm not mistaken.

OK, so the nerd in me is coming out. Bear with me on this.

One BTU is the energy required to raise on pound of water 1 degree F. So assuming the approx. 30 degree temp drop noted by his temp gun, the gallon of water is only good to about 40 degrees F or so. If you put the gallon in the freezer all night, it should get to about zero F. So the total BTU one gallon of water can absorb is roughly 340 BTU (8.5 lbs times 40 deg F delta T). And if it lasts for 5 hours like the guy said, this bucket will have a rating of approx. 68 BTU/HR. Roughly one one hundredth the average small window AC.

That puts it's cooling ability into perspective.

Feel free to point out any errors.

OK, now back under my rock I go.

 

[coronet340]

The gallon of water in the freezer all night still only gets to 32 degrees F, no matter how long it sits in the freezer, if I'm not mistaken.

Water freezes at 32. I have my freezer set at 0. So everything in my freezer is 0 as well. If it wasn't it would run all night trying to remove the heat from all the items.

 

[68 Sport Satellite]

32 degrees Fahrenheit = 0 degrees Celsius

 

[NJRR]

Guess I was mistaken !!! LOL

Water freezes at 32. I have my freezer set at 0. So everything in my freezer is 0 as well. If it wasn't it would run all night trying to remove the heat from all the items.