We’ll admit that the coolness factor of an air conditioned faux spacesuit made out of a hazmat suit will largely depend on where you wear it. At your next chess club meeting, maybe a hit. On a blind date, probably not. [Saveitforparts] apparently doesn’t mind and the combination of very warm weather and the donation of an expired hazmat suit, spurred his imagination as you can see in the video below.
A battery pack, a blower, and a box full of frozen water bottles completes the ensemble. Wireless temperature sensors show the outside temperature as well as temperature inside different parts of the suit. Does it work? We guess it must, but the roar of the fan is deafening and we have doubts about the frozen water cooling system. On the other hand, if you’re shooting a low budget science fiction thriller, this might be just the thing.
Even [Saveitforparts] admits this isn’t really practical and, as we suspected, he decided to get out of it as the condensing water started to run down his legs. Turns out astronauts and tank drivers use an undergarment made with small tubes of flowing water to stay cool.
This project reminded us of the positive pressure suit we saw a bit ago. Not to mention the one that went full body.
Peltier pls
One plastic-suit-melter coming up!
There is one bonus to a suit like that, you can’t catch or spread Covid if you are wearing one :)
Or STD’s.
But mainly because every one will run from you :-D
I didn’t know that watering the garden was one of the tasks in Among Us.
That’s just Dr. Rappacini tending his latest research project.
Growing some Poison Ivy.
Yes, Mira HQ has that.
Perfect for Arizona with recent temps up to about 120F.
Indeed, they would become a Darwin Award winner in near record time.
The people of Arizona who decided to live in a place that reaches 120F?
Unusually for me I’d like to see a whole series of crap youtube videos… [Saveitforparts] goes to the supermarket, [Saveitforparts] goes to church, [Saveitforparts] goes to the funfair, [Saveitforparts] goes to the airport…
[Saveitforparts] goes to the cementery (one way ticket only) after beeing shot because he looked like a terrorist…
A more realistic scenario is [Saveitforparts] goes to the giant underground sandstone tunnel system they dug out of the side of the hill. The saveitforparts channel is great and the sandland tunnels are amazing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0gG5eJcVaw&list=PL7oeYj_v9Vwecgm8avly5Mpa44N7trovD
Or maybe [Saveitforparts] goes to abandoned Hardees to disassemble their playland. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcmGNB5EPN0
“On a blind date, probably not. ”
I don’t know. Today sure. But if the planet keeps warming like it has it might not be that much longer before having a second cool-suite to share makes one quite the catch.
Summers are getting pretty hot!
For areas experiencing increased polar vortex it might be good to have a suite that can run in reverse too.
Vortex cooler and vest with a compressor might not be quite as low budget, but not that bad.
Yes, it is a standard way to supply cold air to a suit used in the heat. Just needs a compressed air source and a vortex tube. They take a lot of air. On eBay one can search using strings from a Chinese to English rather poor translator. Like Cold air gun dispenser needle cooler vortex tube pneumatic cold air tube scroll.
Aha! https://www.aliexpress.com/item/33043794003.html
Would a garden sprinkler hat and a pair of shorts be a better option?
Thouh after a number of particularly sweatty festivals, the idea of a t-shirt with inbuilt fan might have crossed my mind, which is not too far away from this wonderful monstrosity. Usually solved the problem with excess beer.
Try a thin fishing vest with frozen water bottles in the pockets, if the festival lets you bring in outside water.
Or frozen beer for the win! Worked Reading festival once. No rules fo staff and all beer was free anyhow :)
Free beer!? I’m going to Reading!
It’s an interesting idea, but as mentioned there are MUCH better ways of doing this; there are commercial iterations of the astronaut cooling suit (Look up FAST Cooling suit) vests that have gel packs in them that you freeze to ‘charge’ them up, etc. Oddly enough, one of the companies making the latter got it’s start from encountering heating issues whilst in a mascot costume (aka a fursuit).
Portable Dutch-oven!
You have to collect the condensate on the cold stuff and let the suit “go” every so often. Otherwise it will go down your legs.
Tesla turbine and vortex tube ?
Adam Savage did a similar thing for his 2001 A Space Odyssey suits: https://www.tested.com/making/534690-adams-2001-space-odyssey-spacesuit-cooling-system/
He talks briefly about it here then goes into a on-day-build of a compressor model of the same thing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_Ti4GP0ntE
Seems like his reefer is lacking in tonnage. I wonder if he could even move around under the weight of sufficient ice. Fwiw, my home ac is rated equal to 3 tonns of ice.