[TriLUG] Slightly OT: Question about Home Office Cooling

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

On Mon, 19 Apr 2010, Scott Chilcote wrote:

I like Christobal's suggestion of moving the gear to the 
basement and having your dual headed display machine in the 
office.

> Adding more cooling to the room would require a ductless split system 
> (wonderful, but overkill for a small room and $$$$)

can you get into the ceiling and block the vents to all the 
other rooms and have only the vent in your office blowing 
cold?

If you have multiple intakes (one upstairs, one downstairs), 
block off the downstair's intake (I've put a poster infront 
of mine, sealed air tight with masking tape) since there's 
no point in the A/C cooling the already cooler downstair's 
air. You need to suck in the air from the hottest part of 
the house (ie upstairs)

> or a portable room AC system.

I don't see them much here (USA) but in other countries, the 
compressor etc is outside (on the ground like the heat packs 
are here) with a pair of pipes to the evaporator mounted 
usually above a window in the room(s) to be cooled. The 
evaporator is a finned single tube 6-10' long with a 
decorative housing so you don't directly see the fins. A 
quiet fan or just convection handles the cooling.

Joe

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