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DIY swimming pool cooler.

Step 4Top it off and try it out.

Top it off and try it out.
Finally, top off your creation with a cheap box fan (I prefer the "weather resistant" variety that comes with a GFCI on the cord). Our versions return the water to the pool using gravity, so you have to set it up next to the pool. Good luck and enjoy a pool that doesn't feel like bath water.

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Jul 20, 2011. 5:32 PMcmorris12 says:
looks like you turn the fan down ..... blowing over the water tricling across the fillers(coils)... in that your making a radiator ( some what ) right.
Jul 5, 2010. 6:51 AMmikewrobel says:
I assume the fan blows up (based on some other internet research)?
Apr 14, 2010. 6:20 PMTrPPnN says:
Hahaha... heater?  daniel... here in the desert, we can't turn off the sun when we want... can you? if you can... you've got to show me how... perhaps write an instructable!
Jan 24, 2010. 10:08 AMDanny_Payne says:
 cant you just turn the heater down? that way, you will save energy!

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