Cheapest cooling there is...........i think......

dick · Post by **dick** » Sun Jun 29, 2003 11:59 am

im not sure if anyone sugjested this but couldent u put that bucket in a small fridg and that would keep the temps down. Jsut make some holes in frunt, side what have you and then put ur tudes through them. then off arownd the tubes. I think that would keep the watter alot cooler....

Pugsley · Post by **Pugsley** » Sun Jun 29, 2003 1:12 pm

the simplises way to do it would be to did a trench about 4' deep... then make a big U outta 1/2" copper pipe and make it about 100' long and like 1' wide... so you have a U that looks like:

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that alone will be pleany of surface area for the heat to be dissapated... and you wont have a huge ass pool of water sitting still most of the time. If i was going to cool a house... id make a multipule loop version of that.. and have several "systems" consisting of that to cool a house. the problem would be that if you live somwhere where the gorund freezes youd have to worry about the water freezing and possibly rupturing the pipe.

Kal-EL6 · Post by **Kal-EL6** » Sun Jun 29, 2003 4:15 pm

Believe it or not i have solved my cooling problem, accidently. My mainboard died and i had to get a new one, i bought the Asus A7N8X. Now my temps are well within normal values.

I find it hard to believe that a motherboard could cause temps to soar by over 15 degrees C. i'm idling at 39-40C and under load i'm usually no hotter than 44C. I guess i just had a bad board.

canton_kid · Post by **canton_kid** » Sun Jun 29, 2003 11:42 pm

Pugsleys idea works well for house cooling.

Burry the pipes several feet under ground where the temps stay a constant, below the frost line!
This varies by the area your in, south USA not as deep as North USA, but deeper is better anyway.
Since the sun heats the ground you want to be deeper away from the heat, and durring winter the pipes won't freeze.

I plan to build a house heater cooler in a similair way and see how well it works. Copper tubes full of water inside a tank of water. DUrring the hot summer the copper tubes of water are cooled by the tank of cold water underground, then piped to the house and ran through a grill/radiator similar to a airconditioners. As the water cools the air and get hot it is piped back to the under ground tank.

For heating in winter the tank of water is piped to a wood burner so that the under ground tank is full of hot water instead of cold water. Then the same sealed copper tubes of water will carry heat to the house instead of cold!

All the mess of using wood heat will be outside. The only problem with my plan is that I need the tank non-insulated to disipate the heat durring summer cooling. But durring winter heating I will be heating the surounding ground as well as the water in the tank. It should be insullated then, but of course it won't be. It will still work well, but not as good as it could!

Would work for cooling the computers, but you would not be able to move them around much

Pugsley · Post by **Pugsley** » Sun Jun 29, 2003 11:49 pm

why not put a pair of cutout valves and leave the drum as is all the time... then for winter close and open some valves and have the water in the pipe go to some solar heater boxes... or the wood stove.. this way your not puttin energy into the grond. Just have it so it totaly cuts out the section of pipe going into the drum.

canton_kid · Post by **canton_kid** » Mon Jun 30, 2003 12:21 am

I had thought of that before and might do something like that.

I hate valves though, something else to go bad or be exposed to the cold.

I was thinking maybe put the tank somewhere like burried under a shed or animal pen. Wouldn't effect the cooling any in summer, and the heat lost to the ground durring winter could actually do some good warming another less important area some.