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Rainmaker/Water From Air 2. It’s not really a rainmaker, but it does seem to rain most every time I turn on the modified 12 volt dehumidifier. However it does collect water from air through condensation, albeit a slow energy consuming process. This atmospheric water generator uses two 9 amp Peltier modules sandwiched between a water cooled aluminum plate and a modified multi finned copper heatsink which is cooled in order to collect moisture from the air.
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@HeliosWorksAV 7 лет назад

This video probably saved me 2 months of playing around with the exact same dehumidifier, I was thinking of getting. At least if I do get it, I will be able to build on this experience instead of going through all the same problems. Thanks for sharing. Looking forward to your next project.

@LittleshopintexasSV 7 лет назад

I'm glad I could help!

@welingtonalvares 7 лет назад

HeliosWorksAV same here

@OffGridLivingSteve 8 лет назад

Something like that would be good in humid climates and use that water for the batteries. Appreciate you sharing your discovery!

@christophermartin8331 6 лет назад

The dehumidifier might be more successful if it runs through the night. Warm air holds more water, so the cool night air will be more willing to give up its water. Cool project.

@faabbee 6 лет назад

This may not be correct, as cooler air means cooler dew point. It is easier to extract water from warm air, because as you said, it holds more water, so it condenses immediately after touching a cold surface. In case of running at night, you need a more efficient Peltier cell that can reach lower temperatures to extract the water from the cool and dryer air.

@iIiWARHEADiIi 5 лет назад

@@faabbee it is relative humidity. At higher temperature air will have less water than when it is colder. So at night air become colder and water start precipitate on all possible objects. Peltier give the best 40 degress differenc from the hottest side, in the worsest case when cold surface is big it give 20 degrees difference. In this video would be better to make smaller heat sink to make less temperature on the cold side.

@kilx81 2 года назад

It's all about dew-point... Dew-point is always relative to humidity and air temperature. The more air you can get below dew-point the more water you will get.... Layer of water will insulate....and ice will insulate better....

@TimeLine111 3 года назад

When the great Tribulation happens she is going to thank you for inventing a better dehumidifier for survival water. Blessings brother

@mellamoesroy 7 лет назад

Another great video brother!! 😎 Love it!!

@LittleshopintexasSV 7 лет назад

Thanks for watching!

@nancyyang68 7 лет назад

Cool!!

@henrygalea2066 6 лет назад

friend, make sure the hose along the garden is not heating up by the sun, and you fill the storage drum by hot water. Have fun gardening.

@paralleluniverse5443 6 лет назад

I also have a design on this project working on it right now and i liked your video a lot thanks for sharing😊😎

@LittleshopintexasSV 6 лет назад

Thanks for watching!

@Aleku9 6 лет назад

try to keep the defrosting fan on, and make it more powerfull... you need to run masses of warm air through cold surface to extract humidity from it. the more air you run through it, the more water will condence and you woun't need to shake it off, it should run down by itself

@The0ldg0at 3 года назад

2 things. 1-) When you look at the number of water molecules per air molecules at 99% relative humidity, it's in part per millions. So you have to cool a large volume of air if you want to extract a usable amount of water. 2) of course it's more energy efficient to run it before dawn when the air temperature is nearer to the dew point.

@LittleshopintexasSV 3 года назад

Thanks for watching and sharing the info.

@elvindekle9835 2 года назад

Your diodes are 15vdc max and 12 volt running voltage . If you drop your voltage to as low as 8 vdc . Your diodes become more efficient. ie; the cold side gets colder . Also . Summer automotive coolant works well . BUT , ammonia works better . Adding ammonia or alcohol to your coolant will drastically improve the cooling . Having the unit inside a hot/dry building does not improve water production . Root cellar ? Shade . BTW . A small fan pulling air through , 'slowly ', can help .

@LittleshopintexasSV 2 года назад

I hadn't thought about using ammonia for coolant, I'll try that next time. Thanks. Hopefully if I ever have a chance to move, I'll find a place with a tornado shelter. That's the closest thing to a root cellar you'll find in Texas.

@Aprendeconchito 2 года назад

Gracias por compartir tus experiencias y conocimientos

@LittleshopintexasSV 2 года назад

Thank you for watching

@Aprendeconchito 2 года назад

@@LittleshopintexasSV your welcome !

@kaleemulla19 7 лет назад

To collect more water from air you should be using this in a humid location. Will not get good result if using in a dry location. Check the yearly RH condition of your location.

@abcvdfa 3 года назад

Never give up

@FrancisRodgers 2 года назад

The music at 5minutes in made me nostalgic for a game I used to play. Capitalism. Thanks for including the playlist. Saves having to ask. Great video too. Thanks for sharing your knowledge. I also see why you call it the rain maker if every time you turn it on, it rains. 🙂 Very Efficient.

@LittleshopintexasSV 2 года назад

Glad you enjoyed it! I appreciate the positive feedback.

@lnwolf41 7 лет назад

it might help if you vibrated the fins intermittently, this would help break the surface tension, might get you more water that way.

@LittleshopintexasSV 7 лет назад

That's a good idea! A small vibrating gadget on a timer might do the job.

@InventPeace1 6 лет назад

Good try ! Sounds like you got 1 glass water per week? What about having 100 of these all going at once, bet that would get maybe 100 glasses of water per week. Glad you did that effort to save us all time; I like the geothermal sourcing for the cooling for the hot side but that would require alot air like from a cave, or alot of pipes full of water in the ground (56F I think is constant underground temp).

@simonlinser8286 Год назад

you should make a video about your vise brake, that is something i could really use

@johnphillips5481 4 года назад

I bought a 30 pint dehumidifier from Walmart for about $180 and it puts out about four gallons a day in a 15 ft square room. Water vapor continually streams in around the doors and windows and the room humidity only drops a little. If you plan on messing with water, download data on Legionaries disease from the CDC.

@LittleshopintexasSV 4 года назад

You must be in a very humid area to get that much water every day.

@Chimonger1 7 лет назад

Neat idea...LOVE the name for it! Might need larger/more blades to make enough water per day for one person to survive on. Could put a food-grade coating on metal tubing in a regular dehumidifier, to make more potable water per day. Could help cool the air by combining simple geothermal temps into the rig...thermoelectric only cools about 30 F. below ambient air temps...boost that using geothermal temps, instead of regular ambient air. Plus, there is moisture in geothermal air. Like that wind gen on your place...what kind is that? Did you DIY that? Your wife doesn't believe these things work?!? Yet, you have wind gen, solar, etc., and most folks understand thermoelectric works...

@LittleshopintexasSV 7 лет назад

Thanks for the comment! I do plan to try it again with bigger blades to add more surface area. The copper for the news blades should arrive here soon. I have a couple small heaters I may incorporate into the next experiment to warm the air before it's blown through the cool blades. I call the wind generator a stealth vawt, and yes I made that as well. It sits on a base that has a pair of 100 watt solar panels that track the sun as it moves from east to west. I call that whole unit a power pod. It's not that my wife doesn't believe these things work, she just thinks I'm wasting my time and what little money we have.

@Chimonger1 7 лет назад

Little Shop In Texas Ah...so your wife has yet to figure that any of the things you tinker on, might actually result in substantial income stream...{{sighs}} So many think that way...it's the bane of all inventors. Would love to see what you come up with. There's a guy who built "The Giant Earthship" near Pendleton Iowa [last I heard, it's up for sale, but needs lots of maintenance]. He used an old beech tree trunk, carved two compartments in that, set it over a 6' deep hole in the ground...then used a thermoelectric unit to cool that "refrigerator". The ambient temp of the hole [geothermal] + the thermoelectric unit + thermostat + small solar panel. meant he could keep ice cream frozen in the freezer part. Now..the tricky bit, is to extrapolate that, into a more manageable household unit that might not necessarily have a big hole. Someone else made a product called a Power Pod, some years ago. It was a portable power source built into a barrel or trailer, could be sized as customer wanted, use wind+ solar. Pretty cool--we nearly bot one...but unable to afford it at that time. Cannot find a website now...but many spin-offs of similar have been done for something like 20 years. Keep up the great work!

@haydenc2742 8 лет назад

cool, I thought dehumidifiers heated air, then cooled. use exhaust hot side to pre-heat air/moisture, then draw over cooling coils, you need quite a bit of airflow over cooling coils to pull the moisture out, (percentage of moisture x cubic feet of air) try running the fan for "defrost" at 5vdc, better yet build a path with hot side fins to cool side fins.

@mjg3267 2 года назад

you should try a small scale absorption refrigeration setup using saltwater or lithium chloride water with solar collector

@LittleshopintexasSV 2 года назад

Maybe next time

@JoMellGroup 6 лет назад

If your pipes and cooling reservoir are insulated the coolant will get colder and colder.

@andrewsansom1701 6 лет назад

The coolant in the lines is actually to draw the heat off of the peltier modules, and if the lines and reservoir were insulated, they would retain more of that heat.

@caremay1977 7 лет назад

use a vibrator motor to make the water fall off

@ianmelzer 7 лет назад

You might try a hydrophobic spray coating on the condensation surface. But depending on the viscosity of the coating, it might fill the narrow fin gaps instead of just reducing the capillary action of the water.

@LittleshopintexasSV 7 лет назад

Thanks, I'll look into that.

@kevinmithnick9993 4 месяца назад

Yesterday I've started with the same project, Aldo though about making hydrophobic surface. I've just watch a video on how to make inexpensive spray with a clear coat + deodorant spray.

@shawnr771 7 лет назад

This is a great idea. It seems to be very dependent on a power source seems like it would work better where you had a more reliable source of power. Seems like you could a use a wind generator as well as a solar set up. It is usually windy when it is cloudy. Have you seen the Fog Collectors.

@LittleshopintexasSV 7 лет назад

It did have a wind turbine connected to it as well. Unfortunately it's not high enough to be in the more consistent winds. And no I haven't seen the fog collector. I'll check it out. Thanks for watching my video.

@shawnr771 7 лет назад

I have a 400watt wind turbine in a box how high did you have yours? It is going to be part of wind/solar system at some point.

@LittleshopintexasSV 7 лет назад

You will want your turbine to be above any obstructions, but depending on where you live there may be restrictions on that. In my area forty feet is the max and that would put it around the average height of the tree line. The vertical axis wind turbine I built is on the same base that holds the solar panels. I had another on on the roof of my shop. Eventually I intend to build a portable base that will hold both solar panels and a telescoping mast for my wind turbine.

@shawnr771 7 лет назад

Little Shop In Texas right now my land is in the county and unincorporated but covered in juniper trees.

@LittleshopintexasSV 7 лет назад

Awesome! You should be able to put it as high as you'd like, as long as it doesn't interfere with air traffic.

@TheIndustrialphreak 6 лет назад

So my question is what if you coated the cold side blades were coated with a food grade super hydrophobic coating? This would make the water dropplets run right off the blades. Additionally what would happen if you setup multiple peltiers and start using some of those amps from that VAWT to drive your "Air well". I understand this was a few years ago but any good updates on this project? I bought the same de-humidifier from aldis today for $12 and sourced some 12v peltiers from the wish website for under $2 a peltier.

@LittleshopintexasSV 6 лет назад

Over time I've realized water accumulation on the blades is not a bad thing. Water attracts water and it will fall of the blades once a drop is heavy enough. My problem was, I was looking at the water between the blades as trapped, but in fact it's just part of the operation. I tried using 4 peltiers at one time. These were 12v @ 6 amps each, so the power required to run full out would be 288 watts. On top of that I was using a liquid cooling system to keep the hot side of the peliers as cool as possible. The wind turbine was and still is connected to the power suply to work in concert with the solar panels, but unfortunately it wasn't very windy for the entire time of the experiment. I do plan to revisit this idea but my time and finances are tied up in day to day living. However I have made a couple purchases toward the next project; a roll of flat 6 inch wide copper, and a family sized LifeStraw water filter. If you haven't already, please subscribe and click the bell to receive notifications of my new videos.

@kossaga Год назад

@@LittleshopintexasSV I just found your channel, and subscribed as I am working on a similar device. Your videos have helped a lot. Thank you!! Any updates on the rainmaker?

@LittleshopintexasSV Год назад

@@kossaga Thanks for the sub, but nothing new at this time.

@1jjadds 5 лет назад

hahahaha maybe you have found a switch on how to turn on the clouds in you area . any way i like . 2 years ago i did the same but i put the thermos platier colds side on flat shine granite rock an i got a few dropes of water no fan just a cold rock but i stop . the idea is to make lots of water in a place like in the desert an cheaper . good work sir

@LittleshopintexasSV 5 лет назад

Thanks for watching!

@geethakrishnanpurushothama3452 6 лет назад

Hello Sir, Nice video. How much amount of water are you able to generate per day?...And from where you could get the copper heat sink with fins? Thanking you in advance.

@LittleshopintexasSV 6 лет назад

This one only collects a few ounces of water each day. More surface area will collect more water, and there are other ways to chill the copper fins. I bought the solid copper heatsinks on Ebay. Unfortunately I couldn't find the link to that product, otherwise I would share it with you.

@geethakrishnanpurushothama3452 6 лет назад

Hello Sir, Is the area of the cold sink directly proportional to the amount of water generated?...I tried with two cold sinks (heat sink piece on cold side) one with area 12X5 cm2 and other with 18X7cm2. The heat sink size used was of the same area. For the same duration of test I got more amount of water with smaller cold sink. And when I had a discussion with a person (the person who did this -> ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-LkLvpL-M_sg.html ), he told that it is not about the area, it is about choosing the right size. He suggests that the more area does not corresponds to more water. I also experienced the same. Please share your comments. Please correct me if I am wrong.

@lubefish 7 лет назад

Did you figured out how to get the water down ??? Simply power on the fan for defrosting for 1-5sec every minute or so ...

@LittleshopintexasSV 7 лет назад

The only time I might need the fan for defrosting would be when the ambient temperature is low enough to allow the water on the element to freeze during operation. So the main reason for the fan was blow the water out of the blades. Unfortunately the blades are close together and air flow is limited, so much of the water remains between the blades even when the fan is running. And of course when the fan is running new water doesn't form on the blades. I plan to remake this contraption in a way to take greater advantage of gravity to move the water down.

@TheGregd81 6 лет назад

Have u thought of maybe going to a 48 volt system off of 320 watt solar panels? Those small 12 volt panels are crazy expensive. A solar panel is usually a dollar a watt

@andrewsansom1701 6 лет назад

A 48 volt system would be great, but a 12 volt system matches the system of my vehicle and the electrical system in my camper. Portability is important to me so that when I have an opportunity to leave the city for a time, I'll have some of the modern basics for survival with me.

@blazeboymilan 6 лет назад

That's where DC to DC converter play it's roles. You can easily and efficiently convert 48V to 12V to use on whatever design voltage (or Power) requirements.

@enquire422 6 лет назад

Geo engineering!

@Aleku9 6 лет назад

i mean to extract humidity from air

@trevinonelonel3041 5 лет назад

I'm final year engineering student and i'm going to do some research about making water from air by using peltier module. So is there any reference link to get more data can you pls send me

@LittleshopintexasSV 5 лет назад

I don't have any reference links for you other than those of my own experiments. I used the cheapest peltier modules I could find on eBay, usually in groups of 10 pcs, so if I burned them up it didn't cost too much. The trick is to get the cold side as cold as possible. And to do that well, you need to keep the hot side as cool as possible. If you suffered through watching this video, maybe you can live through this one as well. "Mini Fridge Has Become Bane of This Project". ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-4E6JHQUB5Gs.html

@itzzzsss 4 года назад

If countries can build large factories of these near the flatlands of coastal beaches. We can get unlimited water. With solar panels as energy

@LittleshopintexasSV 4 года назад

Wouldn't that be awesome? But unfortunately if a country built it for the people, they *could* withhold the water from anyone they decided didn't deserve it. _If you can control the food, you can control the people._ Or if a corporation built it, every ounce would have a price. Of course if several businesses built them, the competition would keep the price down as long as the businesses were prevented from merging. One way or the other, you may end up trading your money or your freedom. For myself I think it best to keep the government and corporations out of my house and make something that works for myself, and anyone who wishes to copy.

@itzzzsss 4 года назад

@@LittleshopintexasSV it would help if they constructed this temporarily, with wheels and lock, etc, to Australia and other places as an artificial Oasis. Outside of the cities. We have alot of disposable technology

@eyesonthekingdom 3 года назад

I'm curious if you figured a way to get the water to release more freely. I instantly thought about coating it with something like rain x. I think the rain happening every time you turn it on is God's way of saying, stiop worrying about the water. and trust in him lol.

@LittleshopintexasSV 3 года назад

Water droplets hanging onto the fins actually helps capture water from the air. Water bonds with water, so its not as much of an issue as I originally thought. Once the droplets get heavy enough, they fall As for Gods part in this, I just think he has a wicked sense of humor.

@eyesonthekingdom 3 года назад

@@LittleshopintexasSV He sure does have a sense of humor lol. thank you for responding and thank you for your experiments. I believe a lot of us who understand the reality and severity of the power grid going out find comfort in learning alternative methods to obtaining the needed resources to survive, and these experiments give that comfort so thank you.

@lorilange8654 5 лет назад

Hahahaha I have this same tiny cute dehumidifier I paid $24 for it lol..I'm in the South...

@RoccosModernLifestyle 6 лет назад

You want the cooling block directly on the peliter

@LittleshopintexasSV 6 лет назад

I did, and it was.

@AliAldawood 3 года назад

How you are doing well. Any update on this project?

@LittleshopintexasSV 2 года назад

Doing OK, thanks for asking. And no, I haven't done anything new with the water from air projects, but I hope to soon. Unfortunately I have a lot of projects with higher priority.

@AwakeningWarrior 3 года назад

Does the water touch the peltier plates you used? I was going to experiment with something similar almost using the same unit you used here and was trying to figure out a way to make it food safe and avoid the water touching the peltier plates, but I can't picture it quite the way you've described and didn't see the plates in your video!

@LittleshopintexasSV 3 года назад

The water only touches the copper of the heat/cold sink. The heat/cold sink is connected to the peltier by using thermal past and pressure much like the heat sink attached to your computers CPU.

@AwakeningWarrior 3 года назад

@@LittleshopintexasSV Oh okay so you connected it the same way as in a computer, but the water doesn't touch the peltier plate? Is that because it's vertical? I know it touches when you turn it upside down and I wondered if the condensation collected on the other side of the heatsink. That's good to know, thank you!! I love your videos :)

@LittleshopintexasSV 3 года назад

Don't forget that while one side of the peltier gets cold, the opposite side gets extremely hot and requires someway to prevent it from burning out. On the cold side I used a simple copper heat sink to collect moisture from the air, that's easy part. On the hot side I used a CPU liquid coolant system: radiator with fan, pump and reservoir in an attempt to keep the hot side cool.The cooler you can keep the hot side, the colder the cold side will be. The very narrow space between the hot and cold sides of the peltier stay warm and dry. Hey thanks for watching and asking really great questions.

@AwakeningWarrior 3 года назад

@@LittleshopintexasSV oh that's smart!!! Do you get more moisture this way than you would have from the original dehumidifier? Brilliant!!

@LittleshopintexasSV 3 года назад

Yep, I ran the original dehumidifier for about a week and only collected a few drops of water. After all the modifications I managed to collect about 16 ounces in the same amount of time. Its not enough to live on, but it was a huge increase in comparison. Downside is, it took a huge amount of energy to run the thing. I have a more energy efficient idea that involves using the compressor of a small refrigerator, but I haven't had the time and money to work on it.

@ProDigit80 5 лет назад

The fan needs to go on the hot side, or the fan will just blow away half of the water. Rout ~25% of the hot side air to the cold side, so the cold side won't freeze up, and still has airflow.

@LittleshopintexasSV 5 лет назад

The fan in front was just a part of the experiment. I think in the video I said it was not needed. I didn't remove it as the experiment continued but it was disconnected. As for using it on the hot side, it wasn't needed on that side either. If you watch this video, you will see the complete peltier cooling system I used in the rainmaker video. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-4E6JHQUB5Gs.html

@ProDigit80 5 лет назад

Unless the hot side heat sink is very large, it is always best to equip it with a fan. Even if it's running at a low (~1000)RPM, where it uses less than 1 Watt of power. If the heat sink on the hot plate feels hot, you are best off with a fan. If the tips of the heat sink on the hot side are cold (but the base is hot), it means no fan is needed, and the sink is effectively removing heat without a fan.

@LittleshopintexasSV 5 лет назад

You didn't watch the video did you? The peltiers modules are cooled by water. The water cooling system draws heat off of the peltier modules better than any fan and heatsink could possibly do.

@ProDigit80 5 лет назад

So basically you're using the peltier element to extract water from the air, and use the other side to evaporate the water back into the air? XD

@LittleshopintexasSV 5 лет назад

No. It's a closed loop cooling system like one you would use for the CPU of a gaming computer. It's also similar to that used in cars, but smaller. _Watch the video._

@sergioramio 3 года назад

haha thats why you call it a rainmaker, bc it literally rains outside every time you turn it on...

@kiranmaichigurupati3378 4 года назад

What is the total cost of this entire setup..?

@LittleshopintexasSV 4 года назад

I really don't know. I uploaded this video back in Sept 2016. The board that the water collector is attached to, was a project a couple years before that. The whole thing is an accumulation of small projects.

@oldman6172 6 лет назад

Hydrophobic coatings

@grizwoldstad9956 7 лет назад

Funny, spend months getting it out of the air only to heat it slowly so it can go back LOL

@LittleshopintexasSV 7 лет назад

It took a few days to collect the water and I boiled it to kill any germs that may have grown there and to make coffee. Clean water, no fluoride, no chlorine. Whats so funny about that?

@grizwoldstad9956 7 лет назад

I get it just thought it ironic that you are distilling water from the air then putting it back, I live on mountain spring water so understand the concept. Meant no offense just ironic

@LittleshopintexasSV 7 лет назад

lol, We have mountain springs in Texas, but they're almost 500 miles from my home. That's a long way to go for a clean cup of water. City water is just another one of those monthly bills that whittles away at what little income I earn. The thought is, if I can use wind and solar power to collect my drinking water from the air, I can be less dependent on the chemical injected water that come out of the city water pipes.

@blazeboymilan 6 лет назад

Some people earn less than the other that force them to innovate stuff. This is where we use our brain power to get things done. Good job by the way! i love the basic setup you do. It's simple yet easily maintain with cheapest cost. There's lot of room for improvement. All the best!

@RoboticNerd 7 лет назад

What do you mean she doesn't believe in it?

@LittleshopintexasSV 7 лет назад

She doesn't believe my projects hold any value to anyone other than me, and are a waste of my time and money. I just say Oh well, and work on them anyway.

@RoboticNerd 7 лет назад

Little Shop In Texas Same here with my mom :P She doesn't understand my projects lol

@LittleshopintexasSV 7 лет назад

_I think this is why most inventors stay single._ :D

@blazeboymilan 6 лет назад

Inventor/Innovator/Scientist do need some constructive critics and unbeliever's point of view somehow to prove the theory and it's practical applications. You have no idea how good it feels when you successfully and positively proved something to the unbeliever! :D

@dougc3086 6 лет назад

Hello; I am guessing when I say; "More fins does not mean more water" Please see this calculator www.calculator.net/dew-point-calculator.html to figure out how cold your copper fins should be... keep removing fins until the Peltier is cooling the fins down to below the dew point in your area. The next thing I noticed is that you have no divider between the HOT side of the peltier and the COLD side... this is very important as cold air is more willing to give up water and because the hot side is heating up the cold side... Considering that the hot side is 95 percent hotter... and the cold side is only 2-10 percent cooler.. not providing insulation (around) the Peltier and dividing the sides you are loosing almost everything gained. The fan thing to dry off the copper fins is also working against ya... Hey, you can also try, turning on the device until frost develops... then turn off the device to heat the fins... this will melt the ice and work... However, it isn't effective to heat the thing that your cooling, so try to get below the dew point and enclose the fins so the evaporation is not working faster than what the due point can produce. Good Luck.

@LittleshopintexasSV 6 лет назад

In my thinking, more chilled surface area will collect more water. Thanks for the calculator, it may come in handy on future projects. As far as using a divider between the hot and cold side of the peltier module, I've tried it both ways. My first attempt was in a little refridgerator of which I had limited success. "Mini Fridge Has Become Bane of This Project" ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-4E6JHQUB5Gs.html Both the fridge and the rainmaker use a water cooling system to draw off as much of the heat created by the two peltiers as possible. The idea is, the cooler I can keep the hot side, the colder the cold side can become. I guess the last thing is, the fan in front of the copper fins was planned to be for defrosting. However I found it to be unnecessary in room temperatures above 60 F. Thanks for the comment. I plan to experiment on pulling water from air again in the future and I look forward to hearing your opinion on that project as well.

@dougc3086 6 лет назад

Please look at Peltiers on Ebay... and you will notice a small square ... that is the insulation that I am talking about. Then enclose the copper fins in a insulated box with a 4 half inch holes around the same level as the top of the copper. Lastly... give it as "LITTLE power" so the lowest working power... and keep removing copper fins until you have the dew point...you will have about 2 or 4 fins... spread them apart... and let me know if that works for ya.... I'll be watching and wishing the best for you... take care.

@dougc3086 6 лет назад

Even make those four half inch hole adjustable... make a slider.. try one , then two holes... then three holes... we have to get as much surface area that is dew point... and no surface area that is ice. I hope this helps... as I did a typo "a 4 half inch" ... I meant "with 4 holes that are 0.5 of an inch"

@dougc3086 6 лет назад

Lastly,,, copper is good for testing... but for drinking... you might try stainless steel.. (guessing... about this) and hoping for better taste.

@nedspeak 7 лет назад

Keep trying man. Check on youtube, Airator Source (atmospheric water generator) by Adam Alfath. Your designs are similar. The world needs AWGs. Nice video.

@nhacxua2679 3 года назад

How much electricity do you pay for 1 liter of H2O ?

@LittleshopintexasSV 3 года назад

The question should be, how many liters of H2O can you get out of two 100 watt solar panels?

@Rashed_vlogs 2 года назад

Rain maker ohje 🤣🤣

@Rashed_vlogs 2 года назад

Every time i turn it on it rains 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@MARTINNDOMONDO 3 года назад

You might be close to inventing some means of making the rains sir. 10:48 - 10:53😂😂😂

@LittleshopintexasSV 3 года назад

I wish it really worked that way. Thanks for watching!

@lalutali3883 4 года назад

Berapa menit mendapatkan 1 gelas

@LittleshopintexasSV 4 года назад

Terlalu banyak! Ini bukan hanya eksperimen tentang mengambil air dari udara. Ini lebih tentang menggunakan energi yang terbuang sebagai beban penyelaman panel surya. Jika panel surya Anda menghasilkan lebih banyak daya daripada yang bisa dimiliki baterai Anda, mengapa tidak menggunakan daya daripada membakarnya melalui resistor? Terima kasih telah menonton!