Anybody know anything about KoolerAire?

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Dan Armitage from Trailer Boats and Boating Life writes:
My twelve volt favorite is a portable conditioner from New York Based KoolerAire. I've used it to cool a boat cabin, a camper and my bedroom at home during a power outage. The device was developed by a New Jersey boater who realized that he could cool his cuddy cabin using an ice filled chest with the lid open. KoolerAire was created by mounting a fan in a vented lid to better circulate chilled air! I found the unit works best when you fill & freeze the entire ice chest for prolonged operation. However, Blue Ice or frozen water bottles are also good - they're also more portable, don't make the air damp, inexpensive, and spares can be kept frozen for use at another time. Don't forget you may continue to keep your food and beverages cold as well!
Dan is an outdoor writer based in Columbus. He covers for Outdoor Life, and also contributes regularly for Oh. Game and Fish, Oh. Outdoor Times, Oh. Country Journal, Bass and Walleye Boats, Trailer Boats and other publications.
12-volt air conditioner / evaporative cooling development & Product Information.
KoolerAire was developed by an outdoorsman who enjoys Camping, Fishing, and Boating. Like you, he searched the web looking for inexpensive, portable, AC with less than favorable results. Most units he found were in the hundreds of dollars and required a steady water supply or were quite large and bulky. Nothing seemed to fit his application. Frustrated, but determined, he made the very first prototype and used it regularly on his boat and while camping... continue
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[tobnpr]

Now THAT's a good one! Better yet, mount it on the transom of the boat- no disposal bag needed (well, as long as you're three miles offshore)... It would be a perfect match for the "cooler" air conditioner!

To the OP...seriously... fuhgedaboutit.
http://air-conditioning.net/kooleraire.html

You can pick up a portable hatch unit that'll halfway do the job for under a grand, used. Don't waste your money...

 

[shore]

I got one for $25 if you want it.I've used it a couple times and it works as long as you have mostly ice in the cooler.You need a specific cooler also.

tgriffin36@cfl.rr.com

 

[Four Suns]

Products like these are how people make money from unsuspecting people. Hey.. it's only $39.95!!! "Can't go wrong!"

Melting Ten pounds of ice will absorb about 1400 BTU's (if I remember correctly). If the ice is exposed, they are going to be wet/damp BTU's as well (humidity). You need about 100 BTU's/hour for a boat... (in Florida you'll probably need 4,000,000 BTU's/hour). So... Assuming you can melt 10 pounds in an hour, you can adequetly cool about 14 square feet of your cabin.. 3.75 x 3.75 feet... and the cooler will take up half that.

If you have 10 feet x 20 feet of cabin, you'll need 20,000 BTU's/hour to cool it... so if you want to cool your cabin for 12 hours, that's 240,000 BTU's and you'll need to have about a ton of ice on hand (~1700 pounds). How much is a 10 pound bag of ice? $3? hmm... you could buy a real AC unit after running this ice thing for a few days.

The math don't work... This is like the environmental whack jobs out there that say you can dig a hole in the ground and during the winter, freeze water and cool your house from it in the summer... The cost of doing that and the fact you'll need several million pounds of ice insulated very well makes it not practical...

Of course... one of these along with one of them Doberman Toolbox Alarms and one of those bolt on bow thrusters would look snazzy... and blue leds... need the lights...

 

[shore]

OK, stop with the numbers.I can tell you it cooled my little 22' cuddy cabin down for several hours on a bag of ice.This was middle of summer at night.At the time it was the only option.

It does work...just limited to space and time.

 

[Presentation]

Cephus said his red ice chest on his fly bridge holds enough ice to keep his main lower cabin cool all night.