Recent content by shortbloke

Having just had my 2 year old portable air con unit pack (compressor by the sounds of it), I doubt the air con unit would work with the loft temperature being so high (50 degC).

I hadn't thought of using anything as simple as a room thermostat. Excellent idea! I was over complicating the cooling control solution to compensate for the cool air coming in, to try and prevent it constantly switching, but this would be more easily solved my re-locating the thermostat...

I don't think the majority of the heat is being created by the PC, instead it's the heat of the sun on the roof warming the air. i'd thought about building an enclosure and drawing in air from outside, but as you say I could be introducing further problems. I had considered building a control...

Sorry, to clarify I don't mean a loft conversion. I just have a regular loft space, part boarded, with simple lighting and power installed. The computer is my media server, serving other computers in the house via CAT5. All the CAT5 in the house is also routed into the loft into a network...

Ok so it's been particularly hot in the UK for the last week which is compounding my problem. I put my computer in the loft last autumn and it's been running fine until recently when things started to get hotter, causing one of the hard drives to fail. Looking at my logs it died when the HD, CPU...