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12v portable air conditioner camping tent
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great idea goin to a festival and no powrer at my camp and it will be hottttt
Really cool man! thank you!!
No problem, tho your prolly right, neither would be a great idea. Plain ice is prolly the best.
I have a small room, I’ll try this to save on electricity..yeah, I’ll try the 2liters bottles, so it won’t get too humid..thanks! 10stars~!
Works good in a campground environment, or where you can run up to the local store to get a bog of ice. If you are roughing it out in the deep woods, you’d be packing light anyways and wouldn’t be hauling around a cooler.
Tent Camping: You’ll be cool during the night, even if it gets a little damp. The next morning you’ll get out of the tent, and you can always open up the windows to let the air blow through the tent. If you use blue ice blocks or frozen 2 litre bottles, it won’t be very damp.
Don’t expect it to be like having a regular air conditioner running. It works well enough to cool down a 4-5 person size tent on a summer evening where it is cool enough to sleep. If you use ice, it will get a little damp by moring. If you use blue ice blocks or 2 litre bottles filled with ice, there will be little dampness. The build cost is pretty cheap, and you can always return the expensive items to the store if you don’t like it.
guys, how cold could the air that comes out of that vent be? I might try this
@thecubanmann Not really, I use one of those radio shack fans for my battery bank, and they use only 2-3 watts less than that 12 volt dc fan he is using (10 watts I think). Plus that fan is moving a lot more air. His portable powerpack seems about the same size as mine (10 ah battery) so he should get about 11-13 hours out of that fan before needing a recharge. That is way longer than it takes to melt the ice.
Thanks for telling me the difference. Good to know!
@cabotrooper Just a FYI First off Dry Ice is frozen carbon dioxide(CO2) , that’s the same thing we breath out. Burning carbon based fuels produces CARBONMONOXIDE (CO). CO doesn’t kill you by eating away the oxygen, or even displacing oxygen around you. CO attaches to the red blood cells in your body and prevent the blood from carrying O2 to your organs, Essentially you suffocate.
u can get a cooler fan that square at radio shack
for 12 bucks
and it uses way less power
it’s cool when it’s running, but think about it… this is water moisture… when the coolness is gone, it will get humid, and that’s just worse than being hot
ummm ….so if you are out in the woods in the summer…..how do you get more ice….or any ice
thank you!
You are correct. I do not recommend using dry ice!
SEEMS RISKY ?
Fall sleep with it, and you WON´T WAKE UP EVER AGAIN ! Haven´t you heard of died people because they turned on an inside fire to sleep warm? CO2 will kill you if you un out of Oxigen.
What a great idea. Going to the Florida keys for lobster diving, what a great idea to help keep cool.
then you will change it again.
The Ice Blocks are good for one use, and hold up well in a cooler until you need to use them. Once you do use them, then you’ll have to switch to purchasing ice unless you brought extra blocks in a secondary cooler.
and what happens when you need to refreeze the blue blocks?
I thought about dry ice, but having CO2 released into a small confined space like a tent seems risky.
Have you ever used dry ice? Do you think CO2 is a problem? many thanks from an all year – Texas camper!
very nice man… very professional…definately a 5 star vid
my brother has one that we used, it’s not a booster box, it’s made by energizer, and it has like 4 pug ins, worked out well on our camping trip to power our laptop and what not.