Onlyoneman
Well-Known Member
I had this idea that I think might work, but I don't really have $60 to blow right now, so hopefully I can convince someone else that my idea is as good as I think it is so they will try it out for me hahaha.
It is a simple idea but I think it will be harder to explain.
I think all you would need is a fan, a small sub. pump, a cooler and some coper tubing.
A few feet of vynle tubing, and some zip ties as well.
How much vynle tubing depends on how close you can get your cooler to your fan when its all set up.
-The 1/4'' coper tubing is wrapped in to a coil to cover either one or two sides of your fan. The zipties are used to fix it in place every few inches or so.
-The vynle tubing is cut to length: 1 piece from one end of the coper tubing to the sub. pump, and the other from the other open end of the coper tube to a hole in the top of the cooler.
-The cooler is then filled with enough water to cover the pump, and filled the rest of the way with ice. (you may, depending on the type of intake, have to devise something to keep the ice clear in a small spot or something for the intake on the pump)
It should be as simple as that. When you turn on the pump ice water pumps through a coper coil which cools the air, either as it is entering the fan, or when its leaving it, or both. I am thinking it will condensate, but you can just hang the fan with the motor at the top
that way it won't drip, and short out the motor or something. If you could contain the condensation, then this would effectively work as a dehumidifier as well. I personally have a spot where I can safely allow the water to drip on the floor, so I don't have to worry about that. It should just evaporate again...I'll cross that bridge when I get there.
I had the idea while trying to come up with ways to not have to vent a room so often without spending $500 bucks on a big ass AC unit that I have to exhaust to the outside. The whole problem is that I want a sealed room, nothing coming in, nothing going out till night time, so that wouldn't even work. I want to be able to keep CO2 at a constant level the entire time lights are on, and only vent at night while everything is off and the plants are sleeping.
Do I even need to vent a cool, CO2 rich room?
I was thinking of using about a 15'' box fan that I saw at lowes for $15. I imagine that would cool a couple hundred square feet pretty well, and all you would have to do is change the ice and drain some water now and again.
Kind of an after thought...If I use a box fan I will only be able to fix coper tube to the front, becaue the motor is inside, not mounted on the back like I was thinking of with a floor fan or something like that. The water from the back would drip inside to the motor...or more likely be blown in to the motor.
It is a simple idea but I think it will be harder to explain.
I think all you would need is a fan, a small sub. pump, a cooler and some coper tubing.
A few feet of vynle tubing, and some zip ties as well.
How much vynle tubing depends on how close you can get your cooler to your fan when its all set up.
-The 1/4'' coper tubing is wrapped in to a coil to cover either one or two sides of your fan. The zipties are used to fix it in place every few inches or so.
-The vynle tubing is cut to length: 1 piece from one end of the coper tubing to the sub. pump, and the other from the other open end of the coper tube to a hole in the top of the cooler.
-The cooler is then filled with enough water to cover the pump, and filled the rest of the way with ice. (you may, depending on the type of intake, have to devise something to keep the ice clear in a small spot or something for the intake on the pump)
It should be as simple as that. When you turn on the pump ice water pumps through a coper coil which cools the air, either as it is entering the fan, or when its leaving it, or both. I am thinking it will condensate, but you can just hang the fan with the motor at the top
that way it won't drip, and short out the motor or something. If you could contain the condensation, then this would effectively work as a dehumidifier as well. I personally have a spot where I can safely allow the water to drip on the floor, so I don't have to worry about that. It should just evaporate again...I'll cross that bridge when I get there.I had the idea while trying to come up with ways to not have to vent a room so often without spending $500 bucks on a big ass AC unit that I have to exhaust to the outside. The whole problem is that I want a sealed room, nothing coming in, nothing going out till night time, so that wouldn't even work. I want to be able to keep CO2 at a constant level the entire time lights are on, and only vent at night while everything is off and the plants are sleeping.
Do I even need to vent a cool, CO2 rich room?
I was thinking of using about a 15'' box fan that I saw at lowes for $15. I imagine that would cool a couple hundred square feet pretty well, and all you would have to do is change the ice and drain some water now and again.
Kind of an after thought...If I use a box fan I will only be able to fix coper tube to the front, becaue the motor is inside, not mounted on the back like I was thinking of with a floor fan or something like that. The water from the back would drip inside to the motor...or more likely be blown in to the motor.
