[sdiy] soldering with air conditioner?

[Dan Snazelle]

i meant i would turn it off while i solder and open a big big hole in the seal





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> Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 10:38:47 -0700
> Subject: RE: [sdiy] soldering with air conditioner?
> From: blincoln at eventualdecline.com
> To: synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
>
> Without seeing the actual unit it's hard to say, but that may actually
> drop the efficiency of the air conditioner considerably. AFAIK the reason
> there is a seal is to maintain the one-way flow of hot and cold air, IE to
> avoid recirculating the hot air back through the AC unit again.
>
> I visited a remote location at work where there was a heat problem in the
> server room. Someone had stuck a free-standing AC unit inside, without an
> external exhaust, thinking "it makes cold air", without realizing that (as
> previously explained) it does that by making the interior cold at the
> expense of putting out hotter air somewhere else. So of course by not
> having external exhaust, they were actually making the server room even
> hotter than without the AC unit.
>
> I'm no expert on the subject, but I suspect one of two things will result:
>
> 1 - If opening the seals lets solder fumes exhaust from the room, then
> you're probably decreasing the effectiveness of the AC unit so much that
> you should just use a fan instead.
> 2 - If the effectiveness *isn't* decreased considerably, then you're
> probably not exhausting a significant amount of the solder fumes, so you
> should use a fan instead.
>
> :)
>
> If the window is all you've got to work with, I think it's going to be
> hard to effectively cool the room *and* provide exhaust for an AC unit.
> The first thing that comes to mind is some ductwork to separate the intake
> of a fan and the exhaust of the AC, but that's probably more work than
> you're looking to do.
>
> Ideally I think you'd want the AC (or just an intake fan) on one side of
> the room blowing cold air in, and an exhaust fan on the other side, but
> again it doesn't sound like that's an option.
>
> On Tue, May 26, 2009 9:41 am, Dan Snazelle wrote:
>>
>> oh i meant open the vents that are on the sides of the window...not the
>> vents on the AC itself....
>>
>> most AC's have little plastic vents you have to pull across your
>> windowsill to make a SEAL..by pulling these back you open up part of your
>> window to the outside world
>
>
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