Air Conditioning - Keeping It Cool

[kermitforney]

Bumping an old thread....

Something I found that may help in this area.

http://www.xtremods.com/?pg=review_exhaustsystema1



Vent the excess heat directly into your walls, or out a window, or whatever. Now, these are a bit restrictive, but the general idea is pretty sound. Make sure all the airflow in your case pumps out the power supply fan, and then direct it from there where you need it to go.

This was exactly what I as thinking about, but adding an outside exhaust vent similar to dryer machines (without the lint ).

[The IT Monkey]

Bumping an old thread....

Something I found that may help in this area.

http://www.xtremods.com/?pg=review_exhaustsystema1



Vent the excess heat directly into your walls, or out a window, or whatever. Now, these are a bit restrictive, but the general idea is pretty sound. Make sure all the airflow in your case pumps out the power supply fan, and then direct it from there where you need it to go.

This was exactly what I as thinking about, but adding an outside exhaust vent similar to dryer machines (without the lint ).

Ummm... you haven't opened one of MY computers have you? If you had you would see that while it's not filled with lint... there is enough dust to PASS as lint. LOL

[Xzin]

You guys know what dust is... right?

It's kind of like knowing where honey comes from or how sausage is made.

[The IT Monkey]

You guys know what dust is... right?

It's kind of like knowing where honey comes from or how sausage is made.

Yes,
Honey=Bee Vommit
Sausage = Casing at least is usually pig intestine
Dust=Dead, human skin cells.

[Xzin]

Also bologna. Yummmmmy beef hearts.

[Crayonbox]

This has to be one of the best threads for newbies coming into multiboxing.

When I first started with multiple boxes, I had major overheating problems due to small room. Later on, I found out the problem was that my room lacked airflow. Simply opening my windows fixed the problem for short term and then redoing my fans and vents fixed it longterm. California weather ftw ^_^

[yarr]

cool your cpu with a stirling imo ;P

[Jaws5]

I have found , in my High desert area the best way to cool is with swamp cooles. you open a window or upduck fan up stairs and turn on the cooler. house stays 15-30 degrees below outside temp. This only works will if humity is below 20 percent. Where I live (Vegas Baby) it works great until the rains come.

[opt]

At work, we refer to the "through the wall" units as window or wall wrattlers, and for good reason there bloddy noisy and anoying. Plus there an old style system very inefficient and nasty, but they are cheap and easy to install.

The split system is a great alternative and if you shop around you maybe able to find yourself a kit where you may not need a proper electrician to install them. Im not sure around the world, but in australia these systems need to be installed by a refrigeration mechanic, basically because of the type of gas used in them is not to be handled by the general public (R22).

Currently at my place I have an evaprotive cooler, its not the greatest unit but its alright, cools down the whole house reasonabily well unless its blistering hot, in which it doesnt work all that great. There are vents in the roofs around the whole house and there is a unit which sits ontop of the house basically with a water pump and a fan in it. These units are also reasonably cheaper than the refridgirated ducted split-system, but dont have as much goods like the refrigerated.

I currently rent my house from the australian defense force. I am also apart of the electrical contracting group up here are we are currently looking at all the australian defense housing here and upgrading the air conditioning in them. Most of these houses have evaprotive coolers in them but we are slowly changing them to ducted-split systems. There are 2 of us who do this.

Basically what im trying to get to, if you have the money i would push getting a ducted split system in your house.
It is a reverse cycle unit, so you can heat and cool, but one of the great features with some of the models we're putting into the houses is that it has controls for multiple zone temperatures, so you can set many rooms at different temperatures. This is great for your boxing room because you can drop it down to 17 degrees celcius and keeping your equipment nice and cool whilst setting the rest of the house around 20-22 which is a very comfortable living condition.

Currently it is the best systems in the market at the moment, and this is the options you should be considering if you have the money. Unfortunently 99% of the time you wont be able to install it yourself, it requires duct work put into your roof aswell as a indoor unit in your roof and an outdoor unit which is where the compressor is kept, like the minisplit zin is talking about. There are super quiet, the only noise you really get is at the return air vent which is where the air is sucked into the indoor unit before it is cooled. If the filters are dirty they will make a whistling noise, otherwise its a peaceful fantastic system.

For anyone who has a split system, please clean your filters. It will prevent problems in the future.

Theres my aircon wrapup

[Anozireth]

During my time in Iraq, we had two of the split AC units per 8-man tent. They did a pretty good job of keeping it cooler inside during the evening. During the day it would often get so hot (125F or hotter even) that our generator would overheat and shut down, so we couldn't run them during the hottest part of the day, but we weren't usually in the tents at that time anyway.

One thing I didn't see mentioned, the units we had were also capable of running in reverse and acting as a heater in the winter. Yes, it does get cold enough to need a heater in Iraq.