Icy-Flo - The solution to this summer's heat 145
Steve Kerrison writes "Desperate times call for desperate measures, but I'd like to think of this as more of an exercise in cunning. It's hot, but I'm not, thanks to an Icy-Box and a Panaflo. This was nearly categorised as hardware hacking, but then the only 'hacking' required was the removal of four thumb-screws."
IDGI (Score:1, Redundant)
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Re:IDGI (Score:5, Funny)
So, retarded then?
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Oops does that mean when I pushed refresh 1000 times they'll get 1000 emails?
Heheheh.
*clickclickclickclick*
Re:IDGI (Score:2)
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A bit low tech... (Score:2, Informative)
news? WTF? (Score:1, Informative)
must be a slow, slow news day...
Re:news? WTF? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:news? WTF? (Score:2)
And the news drought continues.... (Score:1, Informative)
Re:And the news drought continues.... (Score:5, Funny)
In next week's news: A guy puts a cup of ice in front of the fan for even more X-treme cooling. You have to use the "X-treme" because it points out how really radical this idea is.
Ok,
Go To Hell... (Score:5, Funny)
Wow (Score:5, Insightful)
Alert the media.
Re:Wow (Score:1)
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PS: (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Wow (Score:1)
WTF? (Score:1, Informative)
whats happening to slashdot?
Re:WTF? (Score:1)
I thought for a second I was reading Digg...
Go buy a (floor) ventilator... (Score:3, Informative)
A floor ventilator around the corner from where I am sitting, goes at about $30.
Smaller models (like the one he is using) goes as low as $10-15.
If your time worth so little (and remember, the FTA says its for those that _has_ to work) that this is a solution for you, find a better paying job!
Re:Go buy a (floor) ventilator... (Score:2)
Is this a grade school-level hack? Sure. Is it 'cooler' than purchasing a fan? You betcha. Does the author deserve ridicule? Not at all (though I'll withhold judgment on whoever posted the submission).
Re:Go buy a (floor) ventilator... (Score:3, Insightful)
And, even applying my most friendly view on it, there is nothing clever about powering a (5V) fan from the (12V) power supply on a portable hd.
In addition to that, its a somewhat dangerous solution, and it is suboptimal even to the cheapest ventilator you can buy. (Which will most likely rotate, and thereby make the airflow more tolerable). So I do not believe i
Re:Go buy a (floor) ventilator... (Score:2)
No, it's even sadder than that. He ran a 12v fan off a 12v powersupply.
Hell, when I was 16, I lost the powr adapter to my model 1 Sega Genesis. Unfortunately, all the stores carried were the model 2 power adapters, which supplied less voltage and had a different jack (for obvious reasons). I took a printer powersupply (with the wrong jack, but the right voltage /
Re:Go buy a (floor) ventilator... (Score:2)
Impressive (Score:5, Funny)
Post the HOW-TO please (Score:2)
Seriously, put me on the list before you start charging for that stuff.
article dead already (Score:3, Funny)
He attached a fan to an electrical supply?
All I can say is, as an article, that blows.
Blows? Maybe... (Score:2, Funny)
It's possible (Score:1)
maybe he could get perpetual motion.
OMG Net Neutrality! (Score:1, Funny)
Re:OMG Net Neutrality! (Score:4, Funny)
Real Men... (Score:3, Funny)
Alternatively, I could say, "on another hot summer's day where there was absolutely nothing newsworthy,
Re:Real Men... (Score:2)
There, fixed your links
/. effect (Score:3, Funny)
I can't even RTFA on this one.
7 am and the link has been /.'d to death (Score:2)
-Rick
whoopsies, type-o (Score:2)
-Rick
Re:7 am and the link has been /.'d to death (Score:1)
Re:7 am and the link has been /.'d to death (Score:2)
Yeah, I should have focused on the time from post to the down time, 10 minutes or less. That' what I get for posting before my morning dose of caffeine.
-Rick
Should have saved the fan (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Should have saved the fan (Score:2, Funny)
and the e-mail server. "An E-Mail has been dispatched to our Technical Staff, whom you can also contact if the problem persists." I wonder if every failure has sent off a message.
Get a swamp cooler (Score:2)
This reminds me (Score:3, Funny)
Pssst... (Score:2, Insightful)
* stage A: post dupe articles with increasing frequency to annoy regular reader
* stage B: completely re-skin slashdot to confuse reader even more
* stage C: post outright annoying articles on confusing, technically shallow subjects to scare the last bit of slashdotters away
* stage D: ????
* stage E: profit !
Re:Pssst... (Score:2)
This site has all but become completely useless beyond maybe 1-2 minutes of time a day. It is so shallow and lame that I've basically given up. Between Zonk's "reviews" making frontpage news tha
Re:Mod up! Insightful, interesting, or funny? (Score:2)
Ugh. That already happened
Speaking of hot... (Score:1)
Seriously.. When will people start posting links in coral cache or something?
Mirrordot link (Score:2, Informative)
unbelievable (Score:1)
Refresh? (Score:5, Funny)
"Please try again by clicking the Refresh button in your web browser."
I did, but I don't feel more refreshed really. What am I doing wrong?
Re:Refresh? (Score:1)
Moderate submissions? (Score:1, Offtopic)
Simplicity of design... (Score:2, Funny)
This guy has made a trademark violation.
I wonder if it cools his "Technical Staff"? (Score:1)
ok... so it was a simple hack (the site is officially slashdotted so I can't see what he did exactly) - give him a break :)
What I want to know is whether or not it's cooling off his Technical Staff - who must be getting a slashdotted size of email!
Re:I wonder if it cools his "Technical Staff"? (Score:2)
Not having seen the page, you missed just how simple of a "hack" he did.
He plugged...
A 12cm DC fan...
Into...
A DC power supply.
Nothing more. End of hack. Still think we should cut the FP poster some slack on this one?
Re:I wonder if it cools his "Technical Staff"? (Score:1)
Next up: How I connected my computer speakers (drum roll...) to my mp3 player so that I could listen to music without headphones!
Re:I wonder if it cools his "Technical Staff"? (Score:2)
If someone could show me to get the speaker to run off the mp3 battery so I don't need my laptop about to listen to music I would be grateful.
Now you've done it.... (Score:1)
Quoth the Hexus:
"There seems to have been a problem with the database.
Please try again by clicking the Refresh button in your web browser.
An E-Mail has been dispatched to our Technical Staff, whom you can also contact if the problem persists.
We apologise for any inconvenience."
I saw the mirrordot. Surely there is more happening in the world than this?
What about the Abandonware bill?
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by: ColonelZen
Long-Term Sentimen
Linux Hack (Score:1)
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Like Gremlins 2.
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Wake Up Editors!!! (Score:1, Offtopic)
Now that we have solved the biggest problem facing
Thank god I logged on (Score:2, Insightful)
WTF?! (Score:2)
Not very interesting (Score:3, Interesting)
The problem with most mobile ACs is that there is only one vent pipe, which discharges the air that has been used to cool the condenser outside -- the condenser-cooling intake is in the room. So this means there is a continuous flow of air out of the room
You probably could do all this with Peltier Effect devices {dry heat pumps}. In which case, you would need to attach two lumps of metal with large surface areas {heat sinks from your nearest electronic components store fit this description nicely
Re:Not very interesting (Score:2)
What would be the benefit of this over two pipes side-by-side ? Your exhaust-air would get a little cooler, your intake-air a little warmer. But that's exactly the oposite of what you want....
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In a gas-boiler you *want* to loose as little heat to the exhaust as possible and keep as much as possible heat in. Leaking heat from the exhaust to the intak is a *feature* in such a setting.
With AC you *want* to loose the heat in the exhaust. In that context leaking heat from the exhaust to the intake-air is a *bug*.
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Sure, why not. After you've torn apart a window unit, pissed off the EPA by letting the R-22 escape (because you're not going to buy the proper recovery equipment, right?) and bought several tools and supplies including: service valves, refrigerant grade copper lines, fittings, R-22, an oxy-acetylene torch, a manifold gauge set and a vacuum pump, you can easily build (and pay just as much for) w
Re:Not very interesting (Score:2)
Service valves? You list "manifold gauge set" down at the bottom so I don't know what you're talking about here.
Bullshit. You really think that's what's in those window AC units? They use aluminum, same as probably every car you've ever driven.
You flare the tubing and use some compression fittings. $10 for the flaring tool. Jack diddly shit for the fittings.
Maybe, maybe not. Lots of
Attempting real discussion... (Score:4, Interesting)
Has anyone tried one of these? The priciples behind it make sense:
http://www.sharperimage.com/us/en/catalog/product
And since hearing about this development:
http://www.stanfordalumni.org/news/magazine/2005/
It makes even more sense, though a neck-worn device is more practical for mobile usage.
Re:Attempting real discussion... (Score:2)
But that thing looks [i]really[/i] uncomfortable to wear, I have to say. Even in the commercial, which was no doubt shot to make the device look as good as possible, it looks annoying, not to say dorky. (Okay, dorky.) I think I'll
Re:Attempting real discussion... (Score:3, Interesting)
My review: Like most other things that Sharper Image sells, save your money!
I've used it (or tried to) while walking, while mowing, while working in the yard and in a few other instances, some during leisure, some during manual labor.
First, I'm not a very larg
Re:Attempting real discussion... (Score:2)
Here's some more general advice about TSI: 90% crap. Look at a product and think to
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Don't post... it's a trap (Score:1)
Sorry, no digg (Score:1, Offtopic)
Heat? Where? (Score:2)
Slashvertisement (Score:1)
Stupidest Article I've read on Slashdot yet (Score:2, Funny)
Damn it. I want my click back.
Re:Stupidest Article I've read on Slashdot yet (Score:2)
Re:Stupidest Article I've read on Slashdot yet (Score:2)
Yeah, I want my 5 minutes back, too... (Score:2)
My employer was throwing away a VERY HEAVY powersupply from an old minicomputer. They let me have the parts, which included some very nice 120 VAC axial flow fans. My apartment was hot (cheap AC system), and I didn't have a means to go out and buy a desk fan, so I repurposed these fans as my cooling sol
I did this with the thermostat to my ac (Score:1)
A less lame cooling solution (Score:2)
Granted, the CoP is probably miles worse than that of a normal heat-engine based A/C, especially when you consider the energy costs of freezing the ice, but . .
In case of slashdotting, this is what he did:
Fill a bucket with icewater
Put a coil of copper tubing on the back of a fan
Use rubber hosing to connect the copper tubing to the bucket of icewater
Use a 2nd piece of hose between the copper tubing & the window
Siphon acti
Homebrew Air Conditioning (Score:1)
Re:Homebrew Air Conditioning (Score:2)
am I missing something? (Score:1)
Since it's slashdotted, you can check it out at MirrorDot [mirrordot.org].
But I'll save you the hassle and summarize it for you: he takes a 12cm case fan from an old watercooling rig (just uses the fan, not the water cooling bits) and powers it from the 12V pin of the power supply of an Icy Box hard drive enclosure.
Wow.
Lest you think that the Icy Box is actually doing any cooling, it's not. It's just providing power.
Now why did this make the front page of /.?
Dumbest. Story. Ever. (Score:4, Funny)
Is that really a /. worthy hack? (Score:2)
(Admitted - it was not a real jumpstart, since I let it charge for some hours first.)
Dealing with the heat (Score:2)
But then I grew up in the South before nearly universal aircon and before the age where everyone expected to be pampered from cradle to grave.
Just did that in my car... a few years ago (Score:2)
Re:Cooling w/o AC (Score:2)
Re:Cooling w/o AC (Score:2)