DIY Air Cooler! w/Tubular Radiator! High Airflow! New Design! DIY AC Air Conditioner 12v can b solar

DIY Air Cooler! DIY AC Air Conditioner! New Design! w/Long Tubular Radiator. High speed and Powerful. Cools for hours at a time. can be AC or DC powered. low power draw (about 45 watts). works excellent. can be solar or battery powered, if desired. video shows lots of temp readings and close-ups. be ready for summer! the "how to make it" part is shown at about the halfway mark of the video. output air temps in an 80F (27C) room averaged 54F (12C). air speed averaged 33 mph (53 km/h). please share around with everyone you know... any questions, just drop in the comments and i'll get to them shortly.

couple of unique things about it...
1.) the ice chest is not damaged in any way (it stays in 'like new' condition) so you can use it like a regular ice chest any time you want to.
2.) the entire blower/tube assembly comes off the top so you can carry it around and use it with any other water source that you like.
3.) it's the strongest DIY AC i've ever made (the most efficient too). two gallons of ice produced cold air for over 3 hours.
4.) also, has the fastest air speed by far of any Air cooler i've ever made. shoots the air all the way across the room.

[stevew]

I grew up in the 60's and 70's with "swamp" coolers and I love your dry cooling devices. Thanx.

[hpman]

Nice, thanx I'm working on a ac unit for my 5×5 grow tent you have given me lot's of options 😀

[williamhooper]

I would like to thank you for posting the video on the swamp cooler with the transmission cooler. I built it exactly as you described, and I use it in my RV. It works fantastically. Thank you so much.

[ruthnigh]

Brilliant! Simple and practical. Thank you for sharing your genius with us!

[michaeldina]

You know I was loooking forward to this video!!

[ShrimpCracka]

this is honestly the best version of the chest freezer ive seen, thank you! the idea for the tranmission oil cooler is genius

[eone]

I was actually wondering when you'll upload new video and here you are. Thank you for that.

[JillofAllTrades]

LOVE it! It’d sure help the elderly who don’t have AC to keep cool dangerously hot days. And so affordable!

[ttucker]

Wow! Awesome project! So well thought out. Congrats!!

[davidpennant]

Hello sir, I wanted say thank you so much for sharing this idea on youtube. I'm a fanatic when it comes to staying cool and I am paranoid about getting hot while sleeping during the summer. This is exactly the kind of design I've been trying to figure out to go with and I'm going to go with a 24 inch transmission cooler to take it to the extreme. I really like the design you made here, and it will definitely serve as a foundation for some extra ideas I have. Before discovering your video, I was contemplating on getting a 20x20-in aluminum radiator for a car and slapping it behind a 20 inch box fan, but I actually really like the idea of using a blower motor with the aluminum cooler like this. Again, thank you so much for brainstorming this idea up for DIY folks like myself to incorporate at home. It gets miserably hot and the summer here in arizona, and a cooler like this is exactly what I need to keep the edge off while trying to sleep. Look forward to seeing your other ideas!

David

[homemadetools]

Great design, and it looks like it's very powerful. We shared this video on our homemade tools forum this week 😎

[stephenhickman]

I can't express how excited I get when the notification comes across my phone that you posted a new video. It's ALWAYS something cool and useful.

[omegahunter]

Always love these creative thermal transfer techniques.

[oneaussiesadventure]

I think this is the better option for me because in a camper van in Australia i don’t want to add moisture in the van like the air over the ice options out there.
I did think the only changes id make and id love your thoughts, was to add a stainless steel reservoir inside the cooler using antifreeze in the lines so it can go colder than freezing and hopefully keep the ice frozen longer.

[des]

Another great idea! Now all you have to do is keep those ice blocks from melting!

[angiedorsett]

thanks for sharing your build, I built one changed a few things used a 4 inch dryer hose instead of making my own tunnel and I added a small piece of wood to lift the front up slightly, I think honestly this is the best build I’ve seen and simplest, Great job Man!

[amberborst]

Love watching your videos. Having fun brainstorming how to cool a high rise dorm room through occasional heat waves. Small room has two mini-fridge/freezers to make ice, but I thinking I’m fighting against the laws of physics. Not an engineer, but I think running the freezers to refreeze ice will heat the room up more than I’m able to cool it. Can’t run an evap cooler out the 16th floor window. Any ideas for apartment dwellers in enclosed spaces. Would be happy just to cool for 6-8 hours over night for sleeping. Day time can be spent in cooled public spaces.

[ktnsteve]

I think my son could build this for me - thank-you!

[BenMitro]

The oil cooler as the heat exchanger is an excellent choice - it makes it very DIY friendly. Can you use some flexible duct pipe (like you used for the silencer) around the heat exchanger to guide the air over it rather than the wire mesh construction? I wonder too if you could pre cool the air with an evaporative (swamp) cooler to reduce the ice consumption? The air flow is already there as is the pump and piping...tap into that water and pipe the water to a suitable media perhaps?

[christophvonalvensleben]

I have Solar. And in the hot summer days no power in the night to have 1, 7kw run 8 hours. I plan to build a Tent in what I sleep (with enough air) and place one or two of these coolers inside. That way you could sleep cool for pennies while everyone is going nuts :()