Build Your Own Air Conditioning Unit

Create your own air conditioning unit with this summer.

Build your own air conditioning unit.

Unscrew the front gridded panel of your box fan. The 30 homemade air conditioner we posted over a year ago got an upgrade. Make your own air conditioner. Set the vents on top of the ice chest lid facing down with one vent on each side of the lid.

This is a 10 air conditioner built around an ice chest. Use a serrated knife to cut out the two. Trace around the perimeter of the vents creating two circles on the ice chest lid. A styrofoam cooler makes a great diy air conditioning box as the holes are easy to cut and the coolers are cheap to buy.

Space them far enough. Screw the front with the tubing attached to the exterior back. It s practical and cheap but even if you don t plan to make one click through to read the back story. Your homemade air conditioner pumps cold water into the cooler through the tubing which allows the fan to blow cool air throughout the room.

Follow these steps to ready your materials for assembly. Now that you have your supplies gathered use these steps outlined in the gallery below to build your diy ac or watch the video above. Build your own air conditioner with a box fan and a cooler 1. You may recall that this.

This video demonstrates how cool the air being circulated can be.