Homemade Portable Air Conditioner DIY - Version 2 - Runs off 12 volt battery, car, or solar!

All of your questions are answered here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4LutVTqsUU&feature=youtu.be

As a heating and air technician, this is actually one of the best ideas I've seen

Just came back from a week of camping in the keys. I saw this video before I left and made it just like yours. You saved my life dude! thanks for sharing!

I live in my truck part time and this....this is amazing. You can put a goal zero 150 or something similar on top/side of it and power it right there. Love it. Well done, sir.

I started the morning out with the intention of building the more common variations on YouTube. Was just about to make my 1st cut into the cooler when I decided to look for some more ideas/reviews. I’m glad I came across this video. I went to Home Depot and picked everything up you suggested and ordered everything else on Amazon, plus an adapter for household current. Not including the cooler, which I already had , I’m at $94 all together. Little more than I thought it would be but it definitely seems like it’s gonna be a fun little project. Thanks for the detailed video and especially the parts list!

Thanks for taking the time to make this. You rule. Awesome design and I’d say it’s definitely my favorite & makes the most sense for effectiveness & efficiency. Excited to make one of my own.

i did one almost exactly like it after watching this video. it works good. the climate here though is very humid but i ran a tube right up next to my face and it was great.

There're many of video show their version and said how "awesome" they build, but I rarely to see a video even test with it and show how big of the room size that they can really get cool with. But you did it and proved with the room size matter. Thanks for your video!

I'm going to make this! I'm a refrigeration technician and this is genius. Only changes I'm going to make is making both the inlet and outlets at the top and then run the pipes across the top section before dropping down and looping across the bottom to try to utilize some of the top section, and I'm also going to run the power to the fan through a 12 volt thermostat to hopefully preserve more ice and increase how long a full cooler will last. Thank you so much sir for sharing this!

This deserves so many more views. Making a solar build this summer. Thanks for the info

Hi. I built one just like you instructed. The issue I had was the flexible pipe isn’t water tight so it would fill up with water resulting in no airflow. If the ice doesn’t melt or you can keep it drained out, the flexible tubing is a great idea. Thanks for the video.

Very effective and smart. I had built one using the computer fans for my dogs' house and then tried to use it to cool me while working in the garage, but you have to know that failed in that larger space; thank you for saving me. Your video caught my eye because I had used the same cooler with a solar panel and rechargeable battery, but thanks to you, Amazon has that blower for less than $35 with free shipping (12V 270 cfm's). I'm not cooling the entire space, but it's tolerable until I can build me a small shop to work in, Thanks again, Johnny in TX.

I built this same exact model, it took me an hour, and even without ice the air was cool! Testing with the ice tonight and tomorrow!

Thanks for sharing a great video. I believe this would be a fantastic project for the kids to make that are in boys scouts and once they have made their own portable A/C unit, they can use it in their tents while camping during the hot months. Also; this portable A/C unit would be good to use in you vehicle if you can't afford the expensive bill to get your A/C unit replaced.

This looks to be the best idea I've seen so far of ALL the diy coolers. I always wondered about how long the ice lasted. Your idea and feedback proves to be the best I've seen. Great thinking. This is what I want to build for my work truck.

Dude, my suv has air conditioning. Just messin with you. Great design. The metal tubing is genius.

I m so glad I came across your video. My hubby transports luxury cars and his dodge ram is a diesel truck and for him to sleep with ac would cost a fortune. But now I can build him this type of ac and I don’t have to worry that he will have a heat stroke. Thanks a lot. Your video literary will save a life ❤🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

I ended up making one of these but used a 3" 130CFM blower instead of the 4" 250CFM in the description. The 3" is a lot quieter, running tests on it now. Input air is 95 degrees and output air is 74 degrees. Everything else for the most part is as Jason designed. Oddly, because it is so cheap to make, I am considering daisy chaining a couple of these together to see what happens. With the 3" tubing fitting right onto the blower, I can just re-direct the output into a second ice chest. Running using a 12V 17AH battery pack with the intent to run using a solar panel + 12V 17AH rechargeable battery + a Beater Volkswagen Beetle. :D Thanks Jason, this was an awesome little DIY project that I did with my son.

In case you're wondering, the reason the air is cooler after some of the ice has melted is because there's more conductive heat transfer occurring between the air flowing and the pipe/ice. The air gaps (convective heat transfer) between the ice and pipe is less effective. If you were able to somehow pour water into the cooler and let the whole thing turn into a block of ice, you would a very effective cooler.

I am making this this weekend. I agree with the way you looped the vent piping inside. I was thinking of something similar, but I couldn't think of the right material. This is it. Thanks!!!!