Aircraft cooling

[dozewase]

Aircraft cooling (Hamilton Motors) Yeti cooler

Hi all Anyone have experience with Hamilton Motors Aircraft Climate control cooling for your aircraft ? They are using a Yeti cooler to hold the ice and Italian racing fans to provide cooling ? Expensive so questioning how well it works any info will be helpful
Thanks
Dozewase

 

[gmcjetpilot]

Hi all Anyone have experience with Hamilton Motors Aircraft Climate control cooling for your aircraft ? They are using a Yeti cooler to hold the ice and Italian racing fans to provide cooling ? Expensive so questioning how well it works any info will be helpful
Thanks
Dozewase

A $1000 for ice chest, hoses, fan, tubes and heat exchanger? This is not new idea and you can make your own. This looks like it has heat exchangers which is the proper way to do it. The blow air over ice DIY solutions don't work that well and adds humidity. The down side of any of these is ice melts eventually and it has weight and takes volume in cockpit.

Go to YouTube and search "ice chest cooler air conditioner". You will see a bunch of videos making these. This is the best most sophisticated https://youtu.be/u3sHI7sX6eQ.
This one looks easier to make https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJJtZlrUA4U

If it is HOT climb up to 10 thousand, it will be about 30F to 35F cooler. That will be better than the ice chest AC.

 

[gmcjetpilot]

YouTube suggested this video to me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZwxBqQVgqk

Keep in mind you need (gussing) 40 to 60 lbs of ice for cooling for +8 hours. Add the weight of the ice chest and the rest of the hardware it cold be another 20 or 30 lbs. However I am pretty sure this on the copilot seat blowing on you would cool you off.... but it's a lot of work and you have to buy or make all that ice again.