Nice to see someone enjoying themselves by building something though - not
much of that going on these days! (I won't bore you with my failed attempt
to make a mechanical cricket game when I was 11!!)

Dave
"JPG" wrote in message
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On Thu, 23 Jun 2005 14:39:59 +0100, "Gavin Staples"
wrote:


I saw this one on one of the topics on the TWO site. The issue was how
hot
is your bedroom at the moment. From what I have seen most of us are
enduring
around 28C to 33C. Thats miles too hot for a decent nights sleep.
This bloke here seems to have got round the problem. I haven't tried
this yet, but I am sure there are some engineers on this ng.
Take a look anyway:-)

http://www.eng.uwaterloo.ca/~gmilburn/ac/

OK if you have a large supply of ice and are happy to have a dustbin in
your
bedroom.

Don't waste money on evaporative coolers that use a stream of air across
water.
This will cool the air but raise the humidity to produce an unpleasant
clamminess and actually seem IMHO, to make you feel more uncomfortable.

Make use of nature's own air conditioning system and just ensure you have
moving
air across your body, I have found this system to be highly efficient. A
shower
before going to bed helps to remove that sweaty, sticky feeling.

Martin