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Accidental Tech Podcast

281: My Private Siri

Accidental Tech Podcast

Marco Arment

Technology

4.42.4K Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2018

⏱️ 108 minutes

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0:00.0

Air conditioner sees in again, get that noise reduction thing going.

0:05.1

I'm very proud of myself right now because I made my air conditioner quiet or I actually fixed my air conditioner by drilling a hole in it.

0:12.9

Tell me more.

0:14.1

Many modern air conditioners in order to eke out a little bit more of an energy efficiency rating,

0:19.1

basically don't drain their water out.

0:21.5

They instead try to, so the basin of it fills with water intentionally.

0:27.1

Because then I think that I mean, people will have to write it in correct me if this is,

0:31.2

if this is totally wrong, but the just of it, from what I've picked up,

0:35.1

is that if they sit the compressor in water, it is slightly more energy efficient at cooling.

0:40.9

So most of the new efficient ones, which is almost all of them because people buy them basin efficiency,

0:46.3

will basically allow the basin to fill with water.

0:48.4

The problem with this is that it makes it make it make a bunch of weird noises

0:53.2

as if it's like moving a water wheel through dipping it in and out of water.

0:58.0

It almost sounds like it's raining inside your air conditioner.

1:01.8

And the reason why is because it's filled with water and parts are moving,

1:06.0

I don't know what the hell, it maybe it's the fan or the blower.

1:08.4

I have no idea.

1:09.0

Something touches the water and it is, yeah.

1:11.4

So I fix this problem by drilling a drain hole in the bottom of the basin.

1:15.6

And now while the water flowed out and it's working just as well, it cooled my room,

1:19.6

maybe it's costing me slightly more money per month, but it is now way quieter.

1:24.9

And the noise it's making is at least an expected fan plus compressor noise,

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