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Old 07-20-2010, 01:08 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Homebrew AC water-cooled seats

Been hot lately, and the truck doesn't have AC.

What to do? Rig up a cooler of ice water to keep me chilled.


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Old 07-20-2010, 03:02 AM   #2 (permalink)
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cool, the frozen jug is pretty convenient too.
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if this thing was available to buy, it would complement your idea greatly and it could make the whole surface of the car seat cooled.
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Old 07-20-2010, 03:08 PM   #4 (permalink)
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That's pretty sweet. It'll be interesting to see how he does the A/C part of it.
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...evaporative cooling is simple, cheap and works great...if the humidity is low.

...of course, there's the question of "how much" does it hurt the aerodynamics?

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the humidity isn't typically low in wisconsin summer, and cooling the passenger and not the whole car has some benefits as well.
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http://ecomodder.com/forum/showthrea...tml#post184820

Highly recommended. See also page 3 .

I ran the pump at 0.5-4% duty cycle to stay cool. If you run it at 100% duty, you're going to need some elaborate method of controlling the temperature of water in the tubes. Maybe thermostatically controlled partial recirculation? Nah, just put it on a manually operated toggle switch.
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I just got done rigging up something like this for my babies' car seats. I posted it to instructables.com about a week ago.

Liquid Cooled Car Seats For Babies (or you)
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Yeah, I stumbled on your Instructable right after you posted it.

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