California AC Box **Spectacular**
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Fallow, when used as a verb, means: : to plow, harrow, and break up (land) without seeding to destroy weeds and conserve soil moisture.
Perhaps it's time to let this thread go fallow.
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I kinda doubt that, but at least your use of the English language would be better.
So, are you saying we have globel warming right here on this thread?
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squirrelfooker
With HD's design you could remove the fan inside the A/C unit if it wasn't a dual shaft and connected to the evaporator coil side as well. You could also just remove the condensor coil and put it into a new plenum made just for it. As far as pushing air into the fan it is similar to running the A/C with a plugged condenser coil. It decreases the load on the fan. If you push so much air that you have no load, or are actually pushing the fan faster than it was meant to go, yes that can be a bad thing. Globels design will also cause unknown turbulence and air pressures against the blades of the condenser fan. Globels design will likely need more airflow to keep the box exhausted of the hot air dumped out by the condensor. With HG's design don't stick a 12" can fan with 2000 cfm onto a 5k btu A/C and you should be fine (I would use about a 400cfm). If you want to do it perfectly hook up a flow hood and measure your volume of air movement on the unmodified A/C, then adjust your ducted fan to match it.
PrinSesh - Playing grammar police on a forum is a fool's errand, and something I would ordinarily disdain. But globel fired the first shot - I merely returned his fire.
Dayum - 1,000th post here. I need to get a job.
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Dayum - 1,000th post here. I need to get a job.
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I thought this quote was correcting my Really.
I might of missed the point though.
There's such a thing as over-simplifying.
Or maybe somebody told you, and you JUST WOULDN'T LISTEN!!!!!!!!!!
Look at this, two brief lessons and already there is improvement.
...maybe you could have been a doctor. Nah - if you were in one of my classes we'd both be in prison for assault.
Anyway, dood, all is good. This is just a forum and, as far as flame fests go, this one was pretty mild with a lot of comic relief. I gotta admit, ya' got me with that poster of Boozo!
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This is totally different that what is being discussed in this thread, but it is something you can make out of a window A/C. And that is a badass chiller. Mine is a 5k btu unit turned chiller for my reservoir. He actually converted his into one that can run very low temperatures, I only run mine at 66f so none of that is needed. Took about 30 minutes and a screwdriver to make.
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You could also enclose the condenser coil in a container and pump water through it to cool your condenser instead of using a box and ducting air to it replacing what everyone is making in this thread. I'll try that one sometime too.
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squirrelfooker
You can use a swimming pool as a reservoir, or a natural water source such as a stream, or collect the water and use it on your lawn. But yes, drain to waste isn't something I agree with. I've worked on 5 ton water cooled A/C setups that dump a ton of water down the drain.
SKUNK420
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wtf? Where is the new a/c tech info?
A/C boxes set-up like this work just fine as long as the exhaust is as big as Fing possible. I got my 10,500 BTU a/c has 8 feet 14" ducting running up in to the attic. I tried to make it as short and as big as possible so that way there would be as little back pressure as possible. Too much back pressure slows down the fan and air flow to the condenser which equals less cooling efficiency.
Just look as any dual hose portable a/c. One hose for the intake to the condenser and an output hose for the hot air coming out of the condenser.
