If this weeeeeere to work. Maybe in the cabin air filter?

That is why you attach a 6 inch long 1/4 inch wide piece of aluminum foil to the back of your mouse. Damned static electricity keeps crashing the database server.

Dude hangs dong air fresheners

Static Guard spray actually works on just about everything safely and doesn't stain fwiw. Sensitive electronics and static didn't play with each other as well decades ago. I sprayed that shit on everything regularly after trying it on a problematic board.

LSD here?!

Instructions unclear, air freshener installed in cylinder head.

Engines deserve fresh smelling air as well.

Any type of swamp cooler in a small area is going to create moisture in your van/RV. And moisture is bad. You could end up with a mold problem

The are what are called "swamp coolers" and the general principle is sound if you are either doing it at a massive scale for an entire building and can also dehumidify the air before it is transported through the building....or are in a dry desert. Otherwise it will only make you miserable in the long run by increasing the relative humidity in the area you're in to basically "make the walls drip" and still not provide any more cooling.

The only low power cooling system that does work is TEC plates.... But those require a giant heat sink outside of the area you want to cool and....lots of them (cause they are more efficient at low voltage...)....and then you'll need exterior fans to cool the heatsinks.... Aka... this still isn't viable for a vehicle ;)

I have one I bought from Lidl last year. Big waste of money. You have to be about an inch from it to get any coolness.

Technology connections is one of my favorite YouTubers. Glad to see this video get post!

This is an excellent breakdown with some solid groan worthy puns, glad to see others share technology connections.

It there a reason you don’t want a spot cooler? In my experience, they work pretty well to cool and reduce the humidity significantly. I’d have to empty the bucket twice a day with all the water it drew out of the air.

Edit after reading your post again: I’ve never heard of a spot cooler that works by adding water. Are we defining these the same way? Spot coolers are what’s typically used in servers rooms to reduce the temp and humidity.

Any of them work well with cooling. All are terribly noisy (much more than any regular air conditioner), so if you can't sleep with noise, it won't help your sleep much.

I used this one for a couple years. It doesn't look like an ugly industrial machine and works very well for cooling, if you can stand the noise:https://www.amazon.co.jp/-/en/Nakatomi-MAC-20-Conditioner-Spot-Cooler/dp/B079LD65G5/

You still need to connect the "hot air outlet" in the window, but it's just a ~15cm diameter pipe and it comes with the adapter already. In cooler mode you don't need to connect the water drain since it uses the hot condenser to evaporate the water (which gets dumped outside with the hot air).

And you are right, those "humidifier" spot coolers are just glorified fans and won't make a difference.

I used one of those for a few years to cool down my company's "server room". No problem. You just have to make sure that the water it produces gets emptied frequently or you have a way to let it run out of its little tank (into a bucket or sink). You can always open the window a little and create a relatively tight seal for the hose with cardboard or a bit of wood.

You should check, though, how loud this thing is and if you will be able to sleep, when it's running at full blast.

Spot coolers can be aircons, you just have to figure out how to ventilate the hot side to outside.

Something like this should be the type of thing you need. It won't have the efficiency of a proper aircon but if you need something, it should work. It's designed for exactly your problem (want an aircon but can't install one)

https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B093PVKCFF/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_glt_i_1SQ3R8HSNK02G5VVGD59

It will cool the room, by how much, depends on your room.

The ones that require water to work are simply "swamp coolers". They work by adding moisture to the air. Once the air is saturated with water they stop working.

The rolling air conditioner units work great for one room. I have one I keep in my bedroom for the hot nights, and it works great.

We have one from Costco. The pipes hook up to the window and it stands on the floor. I assume that’s what you mean. It works great. Not icey cold but a lot more bearable.

There's actually a really great video about these "portable" air conditioners." If you have no other option they're okay but avoid them if you can.

Back in May I bought a beefy window AC for my north facing apartment and it's been the best investment I've made this year.

I have this portable AC that works great. In the Summer I just take it in whatever room I'm in and as long as I'm within ~10 ft of it I've had no issues with it keeping me cool tbh

True! Here is a technology connections episode about these little "personal air conditioners" and how they are nonsense for most areas.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2horH-IeurA

>They are loud as hell, though

That might be perfect! G/f and I are from the deep South where everyone grows up sleeping with big loud ass fans, we can't sleep without obnoxious amounts of noise. Mind if I ask what model or what I can search for to find it online?

Does it do the job? Yes depending on how your room is sealed. Portable ac will also pull out air from your room to exhaust the coolant heat so this will cause negative air pressure. If outside air is too hot then the cooling won't be as good. AC room has the radiator outside so you won't have this issue.

The compressor also is inside the portable ac so you will probably need to live with the noise.

1. Yes it is worth every cent.
2. Probably? It depends on how many years you use it for.
3. I got an euroace 12kBTU which did the job well.
4. There is an exhaust pipe that you put it outside your window.

What are the costs you have to pay for electricity to use the portable air on hourly?

Its surely gonna be cheaper in long run, but its gonna be much much louder. Its because the compressor and loud parts are literally next to u. Also, do urself a favour and buy a used one, they go for like $200-250, I used for one sem and then sold for around the same price, no loss. Unless they are really really old (like very discoloured plastic) it should have no issues.

Edit: u can find many ppl in nus selling their aircons, maybe in ur own hostel also haha

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Thats a severely over prices mini swamp cooler from china. They don't do so good. Ice helps but yeah a waste. What kind of cooling do you need?

They do make mini 1000ish btu DC air conditioners with a compressor.

I love that channel! Lots of interesting videos about how the everyday things in your life work.

We have been using a portable for a sun room that gets poor circulation. Eventually we will replace it with a mini split, for the reasons he mentioned.

That's an overpriced swamp cooler. It might slightly work in Arizona or the sahara but that's about it. When water evaporates it absorbs energy, this energy comes in the form of heat. So swamp coolers do lower the temperature, but they also increase the humidity, usually making it feel worse than before. The only place they can really help is in places like Arizona where it's only 5% humidity and therefore have that extra buffer before you start feeling the excess humidity. It should also be noted that these don't work at all in places with high humidity because the water can't evaporate at all.

Saw the same add and was considering trying one. Can you briefly explain why they suck and is there a better but similar option?

It's a swamp cooler. Other than in a single, very specific circumstance, they suck.

Swamp coolers work by evaporating water. Hot, dry air goes in one side and less hot but very wet air comes out the other side. If an only if you are someplace really dry and really hot then they're probably a net gain, producing air that's colder than what they started with and not terribly wet. However, if the humidity is already in the normal or wet range, two things go wrong. First, humid air slows evaporation, which means the thing doesn't cool the air much, if at all. Second, the final resulting air will be so humid if feels fucking terrible.

So, if it's 90F and the humidity is 30%, a swamp cooler works great. Today, it's 80F and 78% humidity here and a swamp cooler would just make everything worse.

Thanks for this! I had to get a portable, it was our only option but now I understand more about how it works. We only run it when absolutely necessary but still not looking forward to the elec.bill

buy a cheap window unit from walmart or something.

protip, do it before the big heat wave to avoid a situation like the great toilet paper shortages of 2020.

either one would probably work, but i would say that if you have an easy way to set up a window unit, a small AC unit would cool your place down a lot more.

I like my swamp cooler a lot. It's been keeping the place in the low 70s over the last couple days, so I disagree that it's not effective when temps are in the 90s; but, mine is a big roof-mounted unit, not a portable one. I bet the window AC will be more comfortable and easy to operate than the portable evap cooler.

The portable swamp coolers work great but they won't really cool down your apartment that much. I would go with a portable AC unit or a window unit. The window units are cheap but can be noisy.

We have a portable to augment our regular AC. It was like $250 on amazon.

I would buy it today. Seriously today, as the heat is coming this week and those window or portable units will sell out fast.

You'll likely be much more satisfied with a/c. Window units are preferable to portable ones because the "hot" part sticks out the window, but overall they provide similar levels of cooling. I was contemplating trading my window unit in for a portable one that I could install more securely due to a recent rise in suspicious behavior in my neighborhood.

Window AC is the solution you're looking for my buddy

Portable ac’s are not very efficient. They work but short cycle and will get warm and then cool and over and over again. A wall ac unit and a little work you can pipe the hot air out of the back of the unit and outside. They are much better and cheaper to buy. I have played this game a lot this year.

I bought a toshiba from Home Depot 379.00 Alexa compatible use it with my controller, no issues and has dehumidifier they have another for 329 no Alexa wifi

you could achieve the same results youd get from a top of the line portable unit as you would a ~$150 wall unit

Artic air better then nothing

Air coolers won’t work. You need an AC

You can find mini cooler with fan and misting at saima marketing, 2nd floor, linking tower, opposite ladyghoshan hospital, mangalore.

This weather only air-condition will work. Air coolers need outside air. So wont work in humid situations like mamgalore

Any good ac recommendations?

Air coolers are useless with so much humidity. In summers only AC is effective.

Other months you can manage with cooler. Make sure it has 3 cooling mesh (2 side, 1 back) and not just 1 on the back.