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Odd situation. We have a pantry 4x6, built with the garage (not a limpet shed, but part of the building, with std insulation) It's on the north side and never gets direct sun, and last few years, we've been cooling it with an open door 6am - 8am and capturing the morning coolness inside. We keep the fresh garden veggies and spare sodas & beer & reserve supply of chocolate bars.
But playing doorman for it daily, is boring, and sometimes, we're not around to do it. So I'm wondering if using a bathroom vent fan in the ceiling, on a timer, to suck cool air in from 3am - 8am is good, or maybe there is some sort of thermalelectric Peltier (energy hog) cooler would be more interesting to run during sun hours.
Opinions, suggestions? Cut the cold air intake in the door and block it with a chunk of styrofoam in the winter (to keep stuff from freezing), inlet vent to another north facing room and draw cool air off the slab? Summers, we have oodles of spare power, but not going to use a noisy window shaker
Found some TE cooler specs (0 hot/cold offset)
485 watts
(1,654 Btu/hr) 3.41w / BTU
240 watts
(818 Btu/hr) 3.40w / BTU
But playing doorman for it daily, is boring, and sometimes, we're not around to do it. So I'm wondering if using a bathroom vent fan in the ceiling, on a timer, to suck cool air in from 3am - 8am is good, or maybe there is some sort of thermalelectric Peltier (energy hog) cooler would be more interesting to run during sun hours.
Opinions, suggestions? Cut the cold air intake in the door and block it with a chunk of styrofoam in the winter (to keep stuff from freezing), inlet vent to another north facing room and draw cool air off the slab? Summers, we have oodles of spare power, but not going to use a noisy window shaker
Found some TE cooler specs (0 hot/cold offset)
485 watts
(1,654 Btu/hr) 3.41w / BTU
240 watts
(818 Btu/hr) 3.40w / BTU
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