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[clgustaveson]

No, it wont work at all, the A/C forces cooled air into the house while expelling the heat energy back outside (through the radiator)

You could create an A/C by taking the radiator of and super gluing it to a fan and fitting it in the window!

[Rico]

Ah! I think I get it now. The heat generated by the refridgerator would outpace the fridge's ability to cool the air in the room. Got it! It's true that the heat generating parts of a/c units are outside of the area they are being used to cool. Makes sense now! Hmmmmmmm. I wonder if there's a way to stick the fridge in the window.........................

[clgustaveson]

Originally Posted by clgustaveson

No, it wont work at all, the A/C forces cooled air into the house while expelling the heat energy back outside (through the radiator)

You could create an A/C by taking the radiator of and super gluing it to a fan and fitting it in the window!

Course the radiator will need to be on the back and all the lower components include the "pool" will need to stay attached to the radiator.

[nahkoe]

Originally Posted by Rico

Thank you, but you totally lost me. I do know that air conditioners and refridgerators work similarly because I have taken both apart while junking. Many of the components are the same. That's what gave me the idea that maybe taking the doors off of one would help get a room cooled down, even though I figured it might take longer than an a/c would. I was thinking that, even though a fridge does not circulate air at the same rate as an a/c, eventually all the air in the room would have been circulated enough to cool it down. You are saying that won't work?

Nope, it won't work.

Fridges/freezers work by removing the hot air from the inside, leaving only cooler air. If you take the doors off, or leave them open, you're going to get a lot of hot air floating around. It should be a wash, take the warm air out of the open fridge and put it back into the room, and then it'd float back into the fridge...etc..etc. But, you have the compressor and the other bits in there that are producing heat while they work to pull the hot air out. The heat they produce combined with the heat in the air to begin with, will actually make the room warmer.

[nahkoe]

Originally Posted by Rico

Ah! I think I get it now. The heat generated by the refridgerator would outpace the fridge's ability to cool the air in the room. Got it! It's true that the heat generating parts of a/c units are outside of the area they are being used to cool. Makes sense now! Hmmmmmmm. I wonder if there's a way to stick the fridge in the window.........................

I think you are redneck. lol I laughed out loud when I read this.

You could just put it in the door you know. Might fit better than in the window. Take less to make it fit at least.

But, then your friends would have to climb in the window.

[clgustaveson]

Originally Posted by Rico

Ah! I think I get it now. The heat generated by the refridgerator would outpace the fridge's ability to cool the air in the room. Got it! It's true that the heat generating parts of a/c units are outside of the area they are being used to cool. Makes sense now! Hmmmmmmm. I wonder if there's a way to stick the fridge in the window.........................

That will work if the back of the item is facing outside!!!

lol

[Rico]

Originally Posted by nahkoe

I think you are redneck. lol I laughed out loud when I read this.

You could just put it in the door you know. Might fit better than in the window. Take less to make it fit at least.

But, then your friends would have to climb in the window.

Hehehehehe! I could take a picture, name it "Redneck A/C" and publish it worldwide via the web!! I saw a picture like that once. This fella had a window a/c sticking out of one of the back door windows of his car and a generator mounted to his trunk!

[Praxeas]

Originally Posted by Rico

Did you know? If you can not afford an air conditioner for your house, but you have either an old freezer or fridge you aren't using (maybe in the garage or your basement), that you can put the fridge or freezer in any room of your house, take the doors off, let the thing run, and it will eventually cool that room down? Not posting this for any particular reason. Just wanted to show y'all how brilliant and gifted I am for figuring out solutions to problems most people don't have.





Actually, this room that I work in is the hottest room in the house, I don't want to run the central A/C yet, my window units are too small to fit in my windows without building something to go on each side, and I happen to have an old freezer downstairs. The wheels of innovation started turning and viola! Instant thread topic. I know. I know. I start a lot of dumb threads. I've never claimed to be sane, so whaddya expect?

Add a fan and you are set

[Encryptus]

Or just fill it with dry ice. :-)

[TRFrance]

Originally Posted by jaxfam6

you sure you are not redneck instead of latino?

Originally Posted by Rico

Hehehehehe! I am both!

So I guess that makes you... Ratino!