Recycled Styrofoam Air Conditioner! TKOR Creates An Efficient DIY Air Conditioner!

Today we're building a DIY Air Conditioner unit made popular by Household Hacker and adding our own tweaks to hopefully make it function even better!

This air conditioner experiment is great for those interested in: householdhacker AC, mini air cooler build, DIY AC hacks, DIY air cooler, save money with DIY, DIY swamp cooler, DIY AC unit, homemade air conditioner, and much more!

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This video is only for entertainment purposes. If you rely on the information portrayed in this video, you assume the responsibility for the results. Have fun, but always think ahead, and remember that every project you try is at YOUR OWN RISK.

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[pharflo]

We assembled this and it worked perfectly. Dropped the temperature by 35-40 degrees. But, we inserted first aid ice packs, instead of bagged ice, so they are re-freezable (and no melted water to drain). Thank you!

[fathermarsala]

One thing to keep in mind, due to the lack of a seal, you won't get any airflow once your ice melts and the pipes are submerged in water. So adding a tap will also help in this regard in addition to easily draining the water.

[WonkaWillE]

I made one of these like 20years ago when i worked in a snack stand on the 12th T at a golf course. With a small grill in there it would get up around 100degrees in there in the summer. I used a 5gal bucket with lid. Cut hole in the lid for a fan. Cut hole in the side of bucket for cold air to come out. Had 2 milk jugs filled with water. 1 in bucket 1 in freezer and as 1 melted swap for the frozen. Worked amazing, and the ingenuity got me some extra tips and compliments from the members lol

[peterweston]

Without the bottles, it is a swamp cooler. It's called swamp because it turns your room into a swamp moisture-wise. You could try suspending the bottles and filling them with a mix of water and isopropyl alcohol. This will bring down the temperature of the bottles when put in the freezer and keep the water from freezing solid. With that, you should get convection current inside each bottle to keep the temperature lower.

[eliza]

I'm making one right now. Adding salt to the ice with make the melting point lower so the air will be even colder.

[VictorPoulin]

Ok, I have the cooler, I have the bottles, and I have the ice and plastic screen. Now all I need is a

[RequiemPoete]

Found a flaw. I built one of these, this morning. It worked great for about a half hour, but then enough ice melted that the bottom of the pipes were submerged in water and wouldn't allow air flow. I would stick to the plastic bottles, or maybe freeze water in metal pipe segments.

[marciamoen]

I just made my first cooler...and it works!!. Going to try all of his suggestions to see how much it will cool. Oregon/Washington are in a major heat wave. I have no airconditioning These instructions are very clear and its a great video. But I had to use a pair of pliers to remove the fan cover. All in all, it cost me $20 and took 10 minutes. Thankyou .

[Whitbypoppers]

I'm sure the reason Household Hacker used water bottles, besides the advantages you mentioned, was to prevent humidity from being added to the outgoing air. Regular a/c systems dry the air by condensing the moisture on the evaporator coils. Water bottles will accomplish the same thing, with moisture condensing on the surface of the bottles. Without the barrier of the plastic bottles, wouldn't the warm incoming air evaporate some of the water off the melting ice?

[NightLgacy]

Thanks so much for the idea. I just built mine on a bigger scale, using a Tupperware container. With the room sealed off (all the windows and doors closed), it actually does do something for the room temperature. Thanks so much! The idea works really well

[justinpritchardkonk]

This is a brilliant idea! Now I can make an AC for my dog when I'm out for work! That wouldkeep her cool :)

[ssjkaycee]

This is my favorite video to share for summer help in ferret groups. They're so heat sensitive and I am always stressing people CAN do something to help them for cheap. Thanks for including your costs as well♡

[FoenixRight]

Pretty impressive, though I believe one problem with the free ice cube design is that once the ice melts if the water rises to the opening of the PVC pipes the system doesn't work anymore.

[YodaMan-]

refreezable icecubes should solve the "not reusable" problem nicely. since cubes work better than bottles. and no leaks .

[nonaurbizniz]

Raw ice melts incredibly fast though. I use the thin freeze packs and did something similar to the grate at the bottom only instead of ice on top I made an array of the freeze packs so that they were barely separated from each other forcing the air between the packs. Used wooden rods to do the spacing like you did for the grate support. However I used a much larger foam chest and it would last at least five hours under the lowest fan setting before finally petering out. To refreeze I simply stuck the entire thing minus the fan into a chest freezer.

[infinitepower]

You could even install a small tap near the bottom of the cooler so that you can get ice cold water as the ice melts.

[alexvernonpls]

Make a rocket that has colored smoke when it launches. Or when it's coming down it has colored smoke as it's coming down.

[lolol_axx]

I tried this on a 5 inch by 5 inch box. I used a 3 inch fan and the 2 inch pipes on the side (it kinda looked like it had horns.) I filled it half way with ice (the ac doesn’t reach my top bunk where my sister sleeps so she’s always sweating to death) it cooled down my entire room and I have the second biggest room in the house. I think the small scale works best, being small, cheap and convenient. It works really well and cools down a whole room. I’m sure the big one works though. I think this one is cuter though because I painted it like a ram (duh pink fur) and gave it a really chibi face.

[Fungulus]

Some interesting tweaks to the original design minus the use of ice cubes. Polystyrene coolers sweat and do in fact leak liquids. Yes its very slow but they do still leak so its not something you want to use indoors if your putting ice cubes in it. Not to mention this thing will lose effectiveness once enough ice cubes melt and the waterline gets above your intakes at the bottom and you have to deal with a cooler full of water too. Cold packs or frozen bottles is the way to go.

[techjack]

I really like your videos but PLEASE add some kind of disclaimer that this project can NOT BE DONE WITH DRY ICE!
There are so many dry ice fanatics in your community and I think it is a great risk not to mention the risk of asphyxiation that would come with dry ice due to the CO2!
Great Video nevertheless!