Quote Originally Posted by faithlessxxx
So now that summer is here, both my fellow farmer and I have seen our temps go through the roof. We shouldn't be even trying during the summer, but we both thought, wtf, lets try anyway.

So our temps shot up to about 35C. We've both got massive fans etc, he has a cooltube, I chopped off the room halfway up with a sheet of polythylene, but we realized that the problem is that if the air going in is warm already, you're screwed.

We started philosophizing about different ways to cool things. Computer processors, motorbike motors, lots of other things are cooled by having a fan blow over cold metal.
We thought that if we could think of a construction whereby the intake has to pass over a fair sized amount of metal, it should cool it.

Then I went home. Sat there thinking that glass should be just as bad a conductor of heat as metal, so I fitted an old stormlight cooltube that I had lying around to the intake, shut the door, left it alone for 20 mins, then checked again. The temps dropped 3c.

I was really surprised at the difference it made. This idea could be developed further, I'm sure.

Thoughts?
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cture Reviewed by cture on . Very Interesting High Temps Solution. So now that summer is here, both my fellow farmer and I have seen our temps go through the roof. We shouldn't be even trying during the summer, but we both thought, wtf, lets try anyway. So our temps shot up to about 35C. We've both got massive fans etc, he has a cooltube, I chopped off the room halfway up with a sheet of polythylene, but we realized that the problem is that if the air going in is warm already, you're screwed. We started philosophizing about different ways to cool things. Rating: 5