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Snow-Glow
frozen mountains domestic room cooler | |
I can remember electric fires that displayed a fake burning coal effect. This was achieved using a moulded fibre glass unit (painted like coal) seated over a red-bulb above which was positioned a rotating metal disc pierced by slots. It was this arrangement that distributed the light and generated the
effect of the burning coal. These were known as Coal Effect Fires. (I still have one, which I modified to create an art work)
There is no reason why the same equivalent effect cannot be created for a cold air blower such as an airconditioner.
Known as Snow-Glow, instead of the burning coal effect, this unit now has snowy clad mountains sealed under a curved plexiglass dome. When the unit is switched on, part of the refrigeration is diverted to the dome, causing the upper regions of the fake mountain range to become encrusted with frost that looks like snow. Other miniature features such as alpine trees and skiing infrastructure add to the effect. The longer the unit is left running, the more accumulation there is. (periodic defrostings required)
A choice of easily swopped mountain ranges is available ie Alps, Himalayas, Rockies, Andes, Urals etc
Super de-luxe version features randomised snow-globe style blizzards, mini avalanches, and aurora borealis background lighting, along with a remote control to activate the extra effects on demand.
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Creative, fun and practical [+] |
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Yes this should be easy to implement. Presumably all you need is to re-route part of the cold circuit out of the casing and attach the landscape-shaped heatsink to it. |
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It doesn't need to be under a plexiglass dome; it can be in the free air, so children and pets can touch it (and perhaps stick to it) |
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In fact it is also similar to those "super cold" pub bar taps which run the coolant circuit right up to the tap and also attach it to the metal casing, so that the casing becomes covered in beads of condensation. I'm not sure I have ever seen one of those that actually gets frost on it, but I don't pay too much attention to them since I am a hand-pump beer man myself. |
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Perhaps the two negativity merchants would like to reveal their reasons for voting down my idea instead of skulking in anonymity? [I already know who they are anyway]
It's disappointing to see the halfbakery so diminished to that of a handfull of posters, but it's easy to see why. I barely post anything now myself and many others have long gone. I left and came back, but in actual fact I post more material in other places now where I have a better audience. Isn't that the whole point of sharing ideas here? |
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Chill, brah, it's okay to not like something, even if it's something you made. Bummer, yeah? But them's the breaks. Anyway this idea has a net bun. |
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Well - it's easy to see why the HB is dying on the vine - can't imagine it being around this time next year. It no longer serves much of a purpose - just a few dozen posters left and people like Hippo, or Wagster or Bungston or Po or many others no longer post anything. I just can't see it appealing to new posters. |
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The fundamental difference between the idea as presented here, and the coal-effect electric fire, is that the coal-effect does not actually produce any heat. I suggest that the proper analogue for the coal-effect electric fire is to have a snow-globe mounted on the front or top of the AC unit, with some kind of stirring action to keep the liquid (and the particles of white stuff) circulating as long as the AC unit is running. You could even tap into the AC cold pipe to use convection circulation rather than a pump. |
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On the other hand, there is potential to use the actual coldness of the idea as presented here, in the same way that imitation coal effect gas fires work. There, the coal is imitation but the heat (produced by gas flames) is 100% genuine thermal heat which heats the room. |
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So the way this would work, is that the refrigeration coils would not power any kind of AC unit, but would solely and specifically cool a grand model alpine landscape made from sheet metal or similar. This could be mounted in a wall-mounted frame shaped like a window, so that the user could sit in their living room looking at a simulcra of a window opening onto the alpine landscape. A hidden fan could blow the cold air through the open window into the room. |
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I am thinking the window could be something like 1 meter square, and the housing could be a box say 30cm deep, to allow a semi-convincing depth of view. The window would be flush with the base plinth which would give plenty of concealed space for the cooling unit and fan. |
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So in face scrub the wall-mounted thing above, This would be a free-standing unit the size of a single wardrobe, the upper half of the front would be the open window. |
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I don't see why a small snow machine could not also be concealed in this base unit, to allow genuine flurries of snow to be blasted through the window as well. |
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An easy analogy would be a coal-effect "fire" powered by actual red-hot chunks of iron shaped like charcoal. |
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//can't imagine it being around this time next year.// |
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I don't make bets... but nothing lasts for ever and this place is now characterised by negativity and cannot attract new posters. As more and more drop out, the ones left will simply add negativity to each other's postings. It's a form of anonymous bullying and it works. It certainly keeps me from making more frequent posts. It's tiresome.... I'll check in and see whoever's left in a few months. Bakesperson already offered to make a back up of all my ideas if I decide to just pull the plug. |
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I don't have as much history as those you mentioned but I think this HB is like Colorado weather: if you don't like it wait five minutes. |
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I feel your pain. An innocuous anno of mine was deleted for the first and only time. Not for venom, or hate, or exuberant wokeness. It was for a syntax and grammar correction. I don't read or post to that member any more. |
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I do so enjoy the zany and the innovative. I'll stick. |
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//Perhaps the two negativity merchants would like to reveal their reasons for voting down my idea instead of skulking in anonymity?// |
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I observe that it's three now. |
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// [I already know who they are anyway] // |
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How? Guesswork? Seems unreliable.
Did you think one of those was me? You'd've guessed wrong, I read it for the first time today and decided to abstain.
But honestly, it seems to me that obsessing over every single negative vote you receive is in itself a bit negative.
People are allowed to just vote down ideas they don't like without saying anything. Or up. You've got more positive votes on this idea, and only one of them was declared. |
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Sorry my friend, but every decision you've ever made, and ever will make, was, and is, a bet... based on previous won, and lost, wagers. |
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Things are cyclic. Innovation is under attack, and it's showing. The pendulum will swing... just hang in there. |
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...and listen to your gut. |
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