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   Graham Sutherland 🎃 Polynomial (gsuberland@chaos.social)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Jul-2025 02:37:42 JST Graham Sutherland 🎃 Polynomial

   living on a humid island where all the houses are spec'd for surviving 1970s winters sure is fun at 30°C.

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     Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag: (ryanc@infosec.exchange)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Jul-2025 02:37:39 JST Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag:

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     @gsuberland even you you spec these things, UK builders seem to be rubbish at them.

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     Graham Sutherland 🎃 Polynomial (gsuberland@chaos.social)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Jul-2025 02:37:41 JST Graham Sutherland 🎃 Polynomial

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     air conditioning? central air? ventilation ducts? heat rejection? lmao nah we don't need any of that. brick and fiberglass wool all the way. keep every last BTU locked up nice and tight. 🫠

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Jul-2025 02:39:07 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     @gsuberland oh so it's not just me

     i swear, i am this close to building a ghetto minisplit myself, probably with butane or something to avoid a need for an F-gas license

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     Graham Sutherland 🎃 Polynomial (gsuberland@chaos.social)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Jul-2025 02:39:08 JST Graham Sutherland 🎃 Polynomial

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     I'm still super mad at whoever's driving the lack of dual hose portable air conditioning units here. they're all the single hose kind, super inefficient. if you want a dual hose unit you have to import one from the US and whack a huge lump of a transformer on it to feed it 110V, total cost pushing £2000. or mod a single hose unit but that's a pain in the ass and pretty ugly.

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Jul-2025 02:43:08 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     • jaseg

     @jaseg @gsuberland i am in a small room and a 700 W unit is Extremely not cutting it. i would not consider anything below 2 kW cooling power most likely

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     jaseg (jaseg@chaos.social)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Jul-2025 02:43:09 JST jaseg

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     • ✧✦Catherine✦✧

     @whitequark @gsuberland I've seen they make 12 V-powered minisplits with short hoses for installation in RVs, and I've actually considered buying one to cool down a single, 20 sqm-ish room. They're kinda expensive though if you consider they are only about 500 W.

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Jul-2025 02:43:52 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     @jaseg @gsuberland yeah that's what i mean here too

     i think my unit suffers a lot due to the need to hold a window open

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     jaseg (jaseg@chaos.social)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Jul-2025 02:43:53 JST jaseg

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     • ✧✦Catherine✦✧

     @whitequark @gsuberland sorry, I meant 500 W electrical input, so more like 1 ~ 1.5 kW cooling. Still not great though.

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Jul-2025 02:53:03 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     @gsuberland tbh i would pay £1000 for it. i cannot function above 21°C. spending three or four months generating zero income will be worse

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Jul-2025 02:53:05 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     @gsuberland can you import a dual hose unit from europe? at least then you don't have to do voltage conversion

     💭 i have a 2.2 kW VFD, i could probably just set it to run a single phase motor on however much voltage it needs

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     Graham Sutherland 🎃 Polynomial (gsuberland@chaos.social)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Jul-2025 02:53:05 JST Graham Sutherland 🎃 Polynomial

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     • ✧✦Catherine✦✧

     @whitequark I haven't been able to find any, unfortunately. or at least not under a £1000 price point.

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Jul-2025 03:28:15 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     @ajn142 @gsuberland @jaseg what an obnoxious reply

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     Buttered Jorts (ajn142@infosec.exchange)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Jul-2025 03:28:16 JST Buttered Jorts

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     • jaseg

     @gsuberland @whitequark @jaseg well there’s your problem 😉

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     Graham Sutherland 🎃 Polynomial (gsuberland@chaos.social)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Jul-2025 03:28:18 JST Graham Sutherland 🎃 Polynomial

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     • jaseg

     @ajn142 @whitequark @jaseg our windows aren't shaped like that. they're hinged like a door, they don't go up.

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     Buttered Jorts (ajn142@infosec.exchange)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Jul-2025 03:28:19 JST Buttered Jorts

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     @whitequark @jaseg @gsuberland do they have those Midea units with the U shape over there?

     https://www.midea.com/us/store/cooling-and-heating/window-air-conditioners/u-shaped-air-conditioner-ultra-quiet.MAW12U1QWT

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     maxime borges (mborges@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Jul-2025 06:46:33 JST maxime borges

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     • ✧✦Catherine✦✧

     @whitequark @gsuberland I was almost buying a second hand R600A industrial compressor to do exactly that, but since I never dealt with anything related to AC, I'm now looking more into opening up a portable monobloc and putting the hot side outside with some random fan without touching the refrigerant piping. I couldn't find that many people doing such things so I'm not really sure where I'm going with that, so I'd be more than happy seeing other people doing such things :p

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Jul-2025 07:52:17 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     @mborges @gsuberland i can probably discuss the topic if you'd like! i did a few vapor compression systems from scratch

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     maxime borges (mborges@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Jul-2025 07:58:24 JST maxime borges

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     • ✧✦Catherine✦✧

     @whitequark @gsuberland I'll try to go the easy way with the monobloc first, but I'll ping you if I go the DIY way, thanks :)