❄️ I Stopped Buying Air Conditioners — Add Copper Pipes to a Fan for Endless Cold Air! 😱
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Welcome to Totally Hacks — where simple materials become incredible DIY inventions.
In today’s cooling experiment, I use copper pipes, an old fan, a plastic container, and several supporting materials to build a homemade cooling machine that produces powerful cold airflow.
Most people see old fans as useless scrap, but with the right DIY setup, they can be transformed into something surprisingly useful. By combining copper pipes with a smart airflow design, I create a simple cooling system with impressive results.
This project shows how recycled household materials can be turned into practical solutions for hot weather using creative engineering ideas.
⚡ Stay until the end to see the final cooling test — you may be shocked by the result.
✅ What You’ll See in This Video:
🔹 The hidden power of copper pipes
🔹 How an old fan can create strong cooling airflow
🔹 Smart DIY cooling ideas using simple materials
🔹 Creative ways to reuse plastic containers and scrap parts
🔹 A powerful homemade cooling experiment
Perfect for DIY enthusiasts, makers, and anyone who loves smart engineering hacks and creative inventions.
⚠️ For educational and experimental purposes only.
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20 Comments
@Андрей-м4ы5м 3 months ago
Замороженную бутылку проще под весить.
@Jodyrides 3 months ago (edited)
THIS CANNOT REPLACE AN AIR-CONDITIONING UNIT. I AM A RETIRED HVAC TECH.
ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS YOU LEARN ABOUT AIR-CONDITIONING IS,
AIR-CONDITIONING DOES NOT CREATE COLD, AIR-CONDITIONING REMOVES HEAT.
Think about that..
A window air conditioner unit has a side that faces where the heat is, it’s in a room in a house usually, and there is an internal circulating fan that does two things, it’s circulate air from the room over the evaporator, which is a coil with refrigerant going through it. That is colder than the room temperature. The byproduct/result of passing hot humid air over a cold coil is, the humidity in the air will collect on the coil called condensation. That is what you see dripping out of a window unit on the outside of the window if the window air conditioner is set correctly in the window with a slight tilt towards the outside for the water to drain.
That coil is called the evaporator coil, that is the cold coil, that absorbs the heat and condenses the humidity in the room, and move, moves it to the other coil on the outside of the window called the condenser coil. The next time you’re outside of a window unit or even a split system that the large condenser sitting on the ground is running, hold your hand above the outside air-conditioning system, condenser or on the outside of the window, air conditioner, you will feel heat coming out of that coil on the outside. That is what an air conditioner does, the refrigerant in the lines, the copper tubing of the two coils in an air-conditioning system, have that refrigerant called Freon flowing through the tubing, that Freon flows through the inside the house coil and picks up the heat, and that flows to the outside unit called the condenser where it loses the heat. It’s that simple ..it absorbs heat, and moves it to the outside, it does not create cold, it’s Simply removes heat and as a result of that process, it also condenses humidity, which sweats so to speak on the evaporator coil, and that drains down to the floor pan so to speak of the air-conditioning unit and goes towards the drain on the outside of the window section of the window unit. That’s the drip. that is pretty much what happens when you put a cold glass of iced tea on the table, and the outside of the glass gets completely covered with condensation/water that condenses on the glass, same thing, only your air conditioner allows that humidity that it has condensed out of the air to go down a drain on the outside of the house, removing it from the area you’re trying to control the temperature in, on a split system whole house air-conditioning system, that condensation will be in your air handler, which is probably your furnace. The evaporator coil is on top of your furnace, and the condensation will run down into a pan, with a hose directing the condensation to either a drain, or to a small electric pump that will pump the water towards a drain. You can’t just let the humidity that the air conditioner condenses out of the air run on your basement floor because it will just evaporate back into the house and the cycle will continue. You have to move the water down the drain or to the outside from the condensation, and you have to absorb the heat in the house and transfer it outside. That is what an air conditioner does, it doesn’t create cold, it removes heat…
Removing the humidity from the air makes the air more able to absorb the sweat. Your body is creating and 🎉allows your body to evaporate the sweat that your body produces to cool through a process known as evaporation. Sitting in front of a fan increases the speed of that evaporation from your skin, that fan is not pushing cold air on you, it is simply increasing the rate of evaporation, which makes it feel cooler, there’s a difference.
In this video demonstration, the man is introducing more water to the air, which will increase the humidity in the room, making it even more difficult for your body to cool by having sweat evaporate. Because of the air is saturated with more humidity, it is less likely to absorb your sweat, so you will be sweating and it won’t be evaporating as match..
I see videos on YouTube with something similar with a fan blowing over a cooler that’s filled with ice..
That’s another joke. Sure it will be cool in the immediate vicinity within a few feet of that ice but only for a short time
before I went to school to become an air-conditioning tech, I had a company car that was not air-conditioned. I was in the car all day going from house to house to house reading meters for the electric company. I worked for when I was first hired.
We had two commercial size ice machines in the building that I worked out out of so that the lineman could fill their coolers first thing in the morning to have cool water to drink on the job sites. I was able to fill a large cooler chest with ice for free. So I got a large cooler that would fit on the passenger floor of my company car, I made a lid with two holes in it, one hole was for a blower fan that I bought at an auto salvage yard for $10 to blow hot air into the ice chest. The other hole had a 90° elbow plastic pipe that I could aim towards me to get the benefit of the cold air.
I am guessing that that chest held about 40 or 50 pounds of ice that cost me nothing.
I couldn’t wait to get to work that day to fill the ice chest and have cold air blowing on me all day
I pulled the car into the garage up to the ice machines, and loaded up my cooler with a large scoop they had there for shoveling out the ice into coolers. I filled it all the way up and headed out on the route. The route I would be working on that day was about a 30 minute drive to my starting point. On the way there, about 15 minutes out, on an 85° day, I went around a corner and a little bit of water came out of that ice chest under the lid. I Brillion didn’t pay much attention to it, until I went around another corner, and I was starting to get sprayed with water, just a little bit. I kept driving, and then water was slashing up to the fan that I had mounted to the lid of the ice chest. I pulled over knowing that I probably had to drain off some of the water. When I opened that ice chest, about 90% of the ice was melted because it was having hot air blown over it constantly. It melted all the ice in less than half an hour. Now, if I didn’t have a fan mounted to the lid, that ice probably would’ve lasted a whole day or longer, but I was blowing hot air over the ice, and it didn’t even last one hour.
Don’t believe these video makers that make videos of what sounds like a good idea, but it’s not
Air-conditioning removes heat, you have to remove the heat from an area that you are trying to cool, you can’t just add cold water to the air in a room and expected to drop the temperature, all it’s gonna do is make it more miserable and more humid, and make your body less able to have the sweat evaporate, which is what takes the heat away from your body, evaporation.
something like this may work right in front of the fan within five or 6 feet, but you have to consider that it is doing nothing to cool the entire room, you have to remove the heat, and the only way you can do that is with air-conditioning..
Air-conditioning I remember, reading or hearing on television about the history of it, was created or invented or discovered by accident. They were attempting to do research on malaria, which is caused by mosquito bites that are infected with that parasite. But they didn’t always know that, they thought that malaria was caused by bad air from swamps where mosquitoes live. That’s how malaria got its name, MAL stands for bad, AIRA is a word for air in some languages, so that’s how it got its name, bad air, malaria.
I’m not sure I think they were trying to build a machine that would purify the air and they ended up creating the first air-conditioning unit totally by accident
Another necessity of today common to just about everybody that owns a vehicle is how they invented antifreeze. They didn’t actually invent it, they discovered it by accident. A worker that worked for Dial chemical I think in New Jersey was leaving work one day when the temperature was below zero. He noticed that a stream that is usually frozen in the winter, had no ice on it when he was leaving work one day where he parked his car every morning, he noticed this over a few days and wondered why that water was not freezing like everything else. It turns out that the chemical company was dumping waste product into that stream which turned out to be ethylene glycol.. And there you have the discovery of antifreeze, purely by accident, just like the creation of air-conditioning.
ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS YOU LEARN ABOUT AIR-CONDITIONING IS,
AIR-CONDITIONING DOES NOT CREATE COLD, AIR-CONDITIONING REMOVES HEAT.
Think about that..
A window air conditioner unit has a side that faces where the heat is, it’s in a room in a house usually, and there is an internal circulating fan that does two things, it’s circulate air from the room over the evaporator, which is a coil with refrigerant going through it. That is colder than the room temperature. The byproduct/result of passing hot humid air over a cold coil is, the humidity in the air will collect on the coil called condensation. That is what you see dripping out of a window unit on the outside of the window if the window air conditioner is set correctly in the window with a slight tilt towards the outside for the water to drain.
That coil is called the evaporator coil, that is the cold coil, that absorbs the heat and condenses the humidity in the room, and move, moves it to the other coil on the outside of the window called the condenser coil. The next time you’re outside of a window unit or even a split system that the large condenser sitting on the ground is running, hold your hand above the outside air-conditioning system, condenser or on the outside of the window, air conditioner, you will feel heat coming out of that coil on the outside. That is what an air conditioner does, the refrigerant in the lines, the copper tubing of the two coils in an air-conditioning system, have that refrigerant called Freon flowing through the tubing, that Freon flows through the inside the house coil and picks up the heat, and that flows to the outside unit called the condenser where it loses the heat. It’s that simple ..it absorbs heat, and moves it to the outside, it does not create cold, it’s Simply removes heat and as a result of that process, it also condenses humidity, which sweats so to speak on the evaporator coil, and that drains down to the floor pan so to speak of the air-conditioning unit and goes towards the drain on the outside of the window section of the window unit. That’s the drip. that is pretty much what happens when you put a cold glass of iced tea on the table, and the outside of the glass gets completely covered with condensation/water that condenses on the glass, same thing, only your air conditioner allows that humidity that it has condensed out of the air to go down a drain on the outside of the house, removing it from the area you’re trying to control the temperature in, on a split system whole house air-conditioning system, that condensation will be in your air handler, which is probably your furnace. The evaporator coil is on top of your furnace, and the condensation will run down into a pan, with a hose directing the condensation to either a drain, or to a small electric pump that will pump the water towards a drain. You can’t just let the humidity that the air conditioner condenses out of the air run on your basement floor because it will just evaporate back into the house and the cycle will continue. You have to move the water down the drain or to the outside from the condensation, and you have to absorb the heat in the house and transfer it outside. That is what an air conditioner does, it doesn’t create cold, it removes heat…
Removing the humidity from the air makes the air more able to absorb the sweat. Your body is creating and 🎉allows your body to evaporate the sweat that your body produces to cool through a process known as evaporation. Sitting in front of a fan increases the speed of that evaporation from your skin, that fan is not pushing cold air on you, it is simply increasing the rate of evaporation, which makes it feel cooler, there’s a difference.
In this video demonstration, the man is introducing more water to the air, which will increase the humidity in the room, making it even more difficult for your body to cool by having sweat evaporate. Because of the air is saturated with more humidity, it is less likely to absorb your sweat, so you will be sweating and it won’t be evaporating as match..
I see videos on YouTube with something similar with a fan blowing over a cooler that’s filled with ice..
That’s another joke. Sure it will be cool in the immediate vicinity within a few feet of that ice but only for a short time
before I went to school to become an air-conditioning tech, I had a company car that was not air-conditioned. I was in the car all day going from house to house to house reading meters for the electric company. I worked for when I was first hired.
We had two commercial size ice machines in the building that I worked out out of so that the lineman could fill their coolers first thing in the morning to have cool water to drink on the job sites. I was able to fill a large cooler chest with ice for free. So I got a large cooler that would fit on the passenger floor of my company car, I made a lid with two holes in it, one hole was for a blower fan that I bought at an auto salvage yard for $10 to blow hot air into the ice chest. The other hole had a 90° elbow plastic pipe that I could aim towards me to get the benefit of the cold air.
I am guessing that that chest held about 40 or 50 pounds of ice that cost me nothing.
I couldn’t wait to get to work that day to fill the ice chest and have cold air blowing on me all day
I pulled the car into the garage up to the ice machines, and loaded up my cooler with a large scoop they had there for shoveling out the ice into coolers. I filled it all the way up and headed out on the route. The route I would be working on that day was about a 30 minute drive to my starting point. On the way there, about 15 minutes out, on an 85° day, I went around a corner and a little bit of water came out of that ice chest under the lid. I Brillion didn’t pay much attention to it, until I went around another corner, and I was starting to get sprayed with water, just a little bit. I kept driving, and then water was slashing up to the fan that I had mounted to the lid of the ice chest. I pulled over knowing that I probably had to drain off some of the water. When I opened that ice chest, about 90% of the ice was melted because it was having hot air blown over it constantly. It melted all the ice in less than half an hour. Now, if I didn’t have a fan mounted to the lid, that ice probably would’ve lasted a whole day or longer, but I was blowing hot air over the ice, and it didn’t even last one hour.
Don’t believe these video makers that make videos of what sounds like a good idea, but it’s not
Air-conditioning removes heat, you have to remove the heat from an area that you are trying to cool, you can’t just add cold water to the air in a room and expected to drop the temperature, all it’s gonna do is make it more miserable and more humid, and make your body less able to have the sweat evaporate, which is what takes the heat away from your body, evaporation.
something like this may work right in front of the fan within five or 6 feet, but you have to consider that it is doing nothing to cool the entire room, you have to remove the heat, and the only way you can do that is with air-conditioning..
Air-conditioning I remember, reading or hearing on television about the history of it, was created or invented or discovered by accident. They were attempting to do research on malaria, which is caused by mosquito bites that are infected with that parasite. But they didn’t always know that, they thought that malaria was caused by bad air from swamps where mosquitoes live. That’s how malaria got its name, MAL stands for bad, AIRA is a word for air in some languages, so that’s how it got its name, bad air, malaria.
I’m not sure I think they were trying to build a machine that would purify the air and they ended up creating the first air-conditioning unit totally by accident
Another necessity of today common to just about everybody that owns a vehicle is how they invented antifreeze. They didn’t actually invent it, they discovered it by accident. A worker that worked for Dial chemical I think in New Jersey was leaving work one day when the temperature was below zero. He noticed that a stream that is usually frozen in the winter, had no ice on it when he was leaving work one day where he parked his car every morning, he noticed this over a few days and wondered why that water was not freezing like everything else. It turns out that the chemical company was dumping waste product into that stream which turned out to be ethylene glycol.. And there you have the discovery of antifreeze, purely by accident, just like the creation of air-conditioning.
@robliecruise2393 3 months ago (edited)
I built something almost exactly like this, but I used a significantly larger pail of ice water as the cooling source. After 30 minutes, the ice had melted and the water flowing out was warm to the touch. The copper tubing was actually too efficient; it absorbed the ambient heat from the air and transferred it directly into the water. While the setup works, it isn't practical for long-term use. For better results, I recommend a portable evaporative cooler with large, honeycombed cooling pads, ideally covering not only the back but also the sides of the cooler unit, equipped with a strong fan. If you feed that periodically with ice, it works much better and can help you survive even an extreme heatwave
@rafaelquijano12 2 months ago
Se que algunos quieren ayudar con ideas para combatir el calor intenso, gracias por compartir este proyecto. Saludos
@dominicabiyahu 3 months ago
Wow, love how he demonstrated just how absolutely useless CD's are today.
@auccasionial 1 month ago
TBH i learned this trick in 2003 from an Uncle. but he didnt used any coper coil pipes like this, he used plastic pipe just to lift the water to top point and let it pour just behind the fans propellor
@jasperlit1345 3 months ago
The amount of electricity to run the fan, pump, and to make the ice will be more for the amount of cooling than a window AC, not to mention you are going to have water condensation dripping all over your fan from the copper tubing, that seems totally safe lol
@shaman4470 2 months ago
Столько всего надо Проще подвесить две баклашки с минусовой водой..на пол дня хватит потом заменил баклашки за минуту..Сынок ты не оправданно умничаешь 👌
@le-francais 3 months ago
How much heat will the refrigerator release to freeze that amount of ice? The law of conservation of energy hasn't been repealed. Practically all the consumed electricity will be dissipated as heat. The whole point of split systems is exactly that the heat dissipation space is separated from the space being cooled. But here, you're just pumping heat from the room into the kitchen. And if the refrigerator and the fan are in the same room, it's simply equivalent to just turning on a space heater.
@khampl1966 3 months ago
Inefficient solution, Small pipe surface area, Condensation of atmospheric moisture etc.
@АлпделДвлелее 3 months ago (edited)
"Дурная голова рукам покоя не даёт!" 😉 В любом случае я скоротал время за этим видео, за что спасибо. 🙃
@MariaHernandez-s3s 2 months ago
El tubo de cobre como adorno se ve bonito y aún si no funciona como enfriador por lo menos el cobre purifica el aire....
@cvfraserdotcom 2 months ago
If all you're going to use ice, it's quicker to tie a piece of string around each knee and empty a couple of trays of ice cubes down your trouser legs. 😄
@archdefilippo8817 3 months ago
We just strap frozen water bottles to the front of the fan. Put a towel on the floor. No building
@teresalilianalobo5834 1 month ago
Alguien lo hizo? Les dió resultado? Vale la pena hacer algo así. Soy del norte de Argentina y el calor es muy duro en verano. Y la empresa de electricidad del estado se aprovecha con los precios que son insostenibles.
❄️ I Stopped Buying Air Conditioners — Add Copper Pipes to a Fan for Endless Cold Air! 😱
Totally Hacks
1,375,397 views
Welcome to Totally Hacks — where simple materials become incredible DIY inventions.
In today’s cooling experiment, I use copper pipes, an old fan, a plastic container, and several supporting materials to build a homemade cooling machine that produces powerful cold airflow.
Most people see old fans as useless scrap, but with the right DIY setup, they can be transformed into something surprisingly useful. By combining copper pipes with a smart airflow design, I create a simple cooling system with impressive results.
This project shows how recycled household materials can be turned into practical solutions for hot weather using creative engineering ideas.
⚡ Stay until the end to see the final cooling test — you may be shocked by the result.
✅ What You’ll See in This Video:
🔹 The hidden power of copper pipes
🔹 How an old fan can create strong cooling airflow
🔹 Smart DIY cooling ideas using simple materials
🔹 Creative ways to reuse plastic containers and scrap parts
🔹 A powerful homemade cooling experiment
Perfect for DIY enthusiasts, makers, and anyone who loves smart engineering hacks and creative inventions.
⚠️ For educational and experimental purposes only.
👉 Subscribe to Totally Hacks for more powerful DIY experiments and hidden scrap secrets.
© Copyright belongs to Totally Hacks ☞ Do not re-upload.
Tags:
#TotallyHacks #CopperPipe #CreativeDIY #LifeHacks #DIYExperiment #HiddenPower #CoolingHack #FanDIY #EngineeringHack #HomeDIY