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Saw a guy's homemade cooling solution at a recycling center in Austin
I was dropping off some old monitors at the Austin recycling center last weekend and spotted this dude unloading a whole server rack from his truck. He had this janky setup where he used a window AC unit and some dryer ducting to push cold air into the front of his rack. I asked him about it and he said it dropped his temps by 15 degrees compared to just fans. Has anyone else tried rigging up a portable AC to cool their gear?
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luna8915mo ago
15 degree drop with a window unit is impressive on paper but moisture buildup is a real concern with those things unless you're careful about sealing it right. Not sure I'd trust my gear to dryer ducting long term.
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kim3735mo ago
Gotta disagree... window units actually pull moisture out of the air, not blow it in.
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the_max5mo ago
I mean sure, a 15 degree drop sounds cool and all, but are we really acting like rigging a window AC unit to dryer ducting is some kind of genius hack? That thing is going to be a condensation factory, and all that moisture is just gonna get sucked right into the fan blades. Plus that dryer duct is basically a perfect little tunnel for dust bunnies to fly in and coat everything. People get way too excited about knocking a few degrees off when their real problem is probably just bad airflow in the room anyway.
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