Cool!

Nice idea, and since he has a frozen bottle, it's not going to increase the air's humidity as it melts

You sir should`ve built a new couch!

*engineering

But bad for electronics and adds humidity to the heat.

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You're thinking of an evaporative cooler.

Hmm, so this one won't add humidity to mess up my electronics? Interesting.

I'm not sure the liner part is all that necessary. It also seemed like having a glass container for the liquid would transfer the cold faster, but if the temperature of the exhaust is at 40 degrees with plastic then that's good enough. Cool idea.

Another thought is that you could decrease the number of exhausts and get a stronger blast of cold air.

It looked like the liner might provide insulation, so more of the air passing through the system would be cooled, rather than the ice also being melted from heat transfer through the bucket walls.

It's not clear to me how much of an effect this would have.

At first glance of the thumbnail, those little air ribbons totally looked like water pissing out on his floor.

A glass milk container would detonate in your fridge when you tried to freeze it. The plastic can give enough to take the expanding ice.

An aluminum container (properly shaped) would be even better than glass. Around 20x the thermal conductivity and be less likely to explode.

I also think he was trying for "cheap... but adequate."

Inquiries Here for anyone that has answers?

Only place I could find the styrofoam liner is a round 8 quart styrofoam bait container at Gander Mtn does anyone else know where we can get a round Styrofoam liner, that wouldn't have to be modified to fit the 5 gallon bucket?

Also where does a person find that 12" ?? size Model Fan?

And the Solar Panel?

I was checking into a 16" 3 Speed with a Quiet motor to use in a bedroom but that might be too big for the 5 gallon bucket

I sure could be wrong, but it seems like the frozen plastic Milk container works best since even though it could/would add a bit of humidity, it's not going to be very much due to the Insulation properties of the Styrofoam liner.

Thank you to anyone that can answer these questions please?

http://www.homedepot.com/p/Leaktite-5-gal-Bucket-Cooler-BC18COL/203867911


Hope this helps!