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hey /diy/ers im looking at making a basic liquid cooled fan that will have copper tubing leading into a box with a water regulator and a few fan to chill the water, then have a massive fan on the copper tubing to blow the nice cold air towards me, any tips?

>> No.102376

Use a radiator grill or heater core for better heat transfer.

>> No.102377

>any tips?

Yeah.

You'll spend as much on copper piping and a box fan than you would just buying a cheap evaporative cooler.

Don't be a faggot, buy a normal evaporative cooler and be done with it.

>> No.102383

Ive already got all the materials for it just need building tips

>> No.102384

Don't do this, its never as efficient as you want it to be and it creates a puddle under it constantly.

Go for this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=9C4FRl9S-j4

Fill the bottom of that bitch with ice and you will have ice cold air.

>> No.102385

This is thermodynamically impossible.

You cant use room temperature air to make one part of a water loop colder than the other when they are both cooled by air. You need something absorbing the heat in the water tank, ie you would need to continiously feed it cold water from the tap or use some kind of refrigeration. Using refrigeration means that you are taking heat out of the water and blowing it into the air, this just puts heat back into your room, which is why air conditioners have the hot part outside to blow the heat into the atmosphere.

>> No.102404

>>102385
Are you talking about op or >>102384

Cause swamp coolers have been around for ever and a day.

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102414

Like this?

>> No.102615

>>102404
Talking about op, I see nothing in op's drawing or description to suggest that he is removing heat from the system to cool down the water in the coil.
Evaporation of the water doesn't count if it's being used indoors.

>> No.103129

>>102414

This sheet idea is stupid. Why can't you just reroute the exit pipe back into the cooler?

>> No.103158

>>102414
I'd feed the water back into the cooler and use a foutain pump to maintain the flow.

Depending on where's it intended to be used, a misting system is problably less work and cooler feeling.

>> No.103269

>>102414
This does not work. I do not know how to make a more simplistic statement to you, but get this idea out of your head because it is the work of a redneck stuck in barn on the edge of an environmental disaster area.

>> No.103277

>>102414
Hmm. Maybe instead of water we could use Propane. The end of it can become like a giant torch

>> No.103280

>>103129
Because it's draws water via siphoning, you'd need a pump to return the water back to the cooler.

>> No.103285

>>103277
At least LP would be cold enough to make it effective.

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103309

>>103285
>>103277
nb4 regulator and arrester