Well Water Air Conditioner -Chilly on the Cheap

It's getting hot out there and I am trying hard to avoid spending money on rectifying that. What I have is a bunch of junk lying around and an nearly inexhaustible supply of guilt free well water... lets see if we can work with that.
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[@peterbrown9606]

Love this! I wish there's a cold spring nearby and if you could use gravity flow of cold water!

[@FloppyHatPhotos]

I know it is not as cheap as you like but they now sell mini splits that come with solar panels to run it.
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[@ryanb6658]

Those are nice

[@forced4ph]

It’s a cool project. You need to move more air volume than the fan can push.

[@Cjnchef]

Get a much stronger fan. Like a dryer or a old ac fan. And see the efficient cooling begins

[@gmcxm211]

go get an old furnace fan from an heating and air conditioning installer they got 100's laying around.

[@durkj3370]

Only thing I can think is you’d definitely want a low micron filter before hand as that coil was never meant to have that much liquid flowing thru it. It’s a coil made for refrigeration it’s supposed to have gas pushed thru it now water so it could definitely clog up quite quickly

[@durkj3370]

Also as others have stated more airflow will help quite a bit. You are also doing the right thing running the water a slow as possible it gives it good time to absorb the heat. I would say with increased air pressure you could bring your water delta to quite a bit higher even with the warmer water you are having to use

[@rustblade5021]

Mate, you're throwing money down the drain. The coil needs to be cooler if it's ever going to remove humidity. You are better off using that electricity on something more efficient. there are 12,000 btu (1 ton) units that are surprisingly good, they use a dual hose and rotary compressor. Also no condensate because they use it to cool the condenser.

[@ryanb6658]

How much for the bucket truck?

[@acme663ryo]

Idk, wasn't thinking of selling it yet. Just had all the hoses in rhe boom replaced. Talk me onto it.

[@Cjnchef]

Get a much stronger fan. Like a dryer or a old ac fan. And see the efficient cooling begins