DIY Air Conditioner

The story: We have a so hot summer here. We live in a rental house so i can't install a factory AC (and it's expensive too) I started to search for something which can help cooling our rooms and i finally found this "cooling box".

All of the parts for this project cost me 30$ and hopefully this is really working!!!

It can't beat a standard wall mounted AC but it can help to decrease the temperature from hot to tolerable!

The hole making process was 15 minutes! Really!!!

A bought a styrofoam box which is made for deliver meals.

The box's size depends on you every following parts can be adaptable for the size of the box.

I got a regular fan. This is 30 cm/12" nearly. I suggest to get as bigger as your box can accept!

Set apart the fan we will use the first cover cage in the next step.

Put the cage to the top of the box and draw around with a sharpie.

Next come the 3 pipe heads. Draw them around as well.

This is the expected result!

Take a knife i used a Swiss Army Knife but you can use anything what you familiar to.

Cut a little bit smaller the hole to get a flat surface for the cage cover.

Do the same with the 3 pipe holes but now you can cut exactly on the marks!

Again this is the expected result!

Take the fan and the pipes then put everything in its place!

Here it is :)

This will be the final now the only left thing is to try it and see is it really works?

I took the hole box to my son's room it's 15 m2/160ft2.

The starting temperature was 28.2 C/ 82.8 F.

Loaded the box with some soda bottle filled with ice then put back the fan and started it.

After circa 40 minutes the temperature decreased 1 celsius.

It's amazing :)

I think it can't frozen the room but make it more liveable on a hot summer day.

So this was so inspiring for me and i think if i load the box with more iced soda bottle and let it runs for more time i get even better results!

More is better than less :))

I suggest everybody to give it a try!!!

Thanks for your attention and see you next time with another interesting instructable ;)

That's the ShiftyWay :)

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