cooling my compressor

[hartattack]

I am in the proses of building a closet around my wall mounted boiler system and my air compressor. I will be insulating and drywalling both sides of the wall. Also i am putting a insulated steel door on the closet so there is very little noise in the shop. My question is what is the best way to keep the heat down in there? The door will be open when i am not in there but closed when i am working. Do i vent out side with a fan some how connected to a thermostat? The closet is 40"wx64"lx9'h

 

[Torque1st]

Use big passive vents in the outside wall. There must be plenty of airflow around the compressor.

This kind of reminds me of the guy that enclosed his air conditioner condenser in a closet when he built his home addition.

 

[hartattack]

Use big passive vents in the outside wall. There must be plenty of airflow around the compressor.

This kind of reminds me of the guy that enclosed his air conditioner condenser in a closet when he built his home addition.

Where would be a good place to purchase a passive vent. I looked on line and they said that passive vents do not close. Our winters are very cold and i would not a hole in the wall open all the time.

 

[slopecarver]

What you need is a pair of serpentine baffles like this one:

one for incoming air and one for exhaust. Use Linacoustic instead of fiberglass insulation. You can build one of these into the stud wall using 2x4 lumber for the baffles themselves. Use a temperature switch hooked up to an old bathroom fan when it gets warm and circulate the air. It really is best to keep the air in the shop so you don't have temperature issues like you described. I would also add an air filter for a furnace on the shop sides of both of your baffles to keep dust out with a HVAC return covers to make them look nice

 

[Jack Olsen]

I put an inline blower on the duct leading into the box I built for mine. I also got a $10 indoor/outdoor thermometer that saves maximum temperature readings so I can see just how hot it's getting inside there.

Even with the blower, it was getting too hot. So now I've got a second (bigger) blower -- one on the intake and one on the outlet.

If your compressor runs on 120v, Sears sells an auto switch which you plug your compressor and your blowers into -- it switches on the fans whenever the compressor cycles on.