Modding your bed

[Kelvrick]

Originally posted by: Dragon21
Sound proofing my windows would help, but I also deal with a lot of 3am screams from my drugged out roomates. I really don't think building a large box would be that difficult or expensive, even with sound proofing foam on the inside. Granted, it will take some dollars to cool it and ventilate it properly. Are there any solutions for modded PCs that silence fan noise through some kind of foam lined chamber?

Yea, there are sound dampening materials for the computer. Its mainly just foam around the inside the computer and puts in more resistance What I would do is have your coffin, and maybe use some ventilation material such as that flexible ducting tuby metallic stuff to run off a bit from your little coffin with something like this at the end of it pulling air out. You can have another duct at the other end with a fan pushing in.

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[dolph]

sound cancelling headphones, and those eye-shades they give you on overseas flights and what old women wear to sleep. use both and you'll never know what's happening outside. otherwise, in an apartment where you live with druggie roommates who are still cracked out at 3 am, you'll be considered the crazy one if you sleep in a coffin.

 

[Ornery]

"Are there any solutions for modded PCs that silence fan noise through some kind of foam lined chamber?"

Use a blower, not a fan, and mount it remotely, at the end of a long, insulated duct.

 

[hopeless879]

Originally posted by: Dragon21
Already tried earplugs- too loud. I also live with very loud roomates and contend with a lot of light pollution so I thought this quasi-sensory depravation chamber idea would work well.
And a coffin would run out of air quickly...

Get the coffin and just take power naps.

Oh yeah, you might want to try posting this in the Highly Technical forum as well, you'd probably get some really creative answers there.

 

[klod]

Customer:
Curt McNamee - Elk Creek, Washington

Problem:
Wife works night shift, and can not sleep during the day due to household (children) noises, road noises, and so forth.

Solution:
Custom designed a 4' wide x 7' long x 4' tall sleep chamber to help block out noises and daylight. This chamber has a custom designed ventilation system located at the foot of the chamber.

sleep chamber

 

[Mutilator]

Have you tried simply running a fan next to your bed yet? Usually they make just enough noise to drown out everything else.

 

[WhiteKnight]

Originally posted by: klod
Customer:
Curt McNamee - Elk Creek, Washington

Problem:
Wife works night shift, and can not sleep during the day due to household (children) noises, road noises, and so forth.

Solution:
Custom designed a 4' wide x 7' long x 4' tall sleep chamber to help block out noises and daylight. This chamber has a custom designed ventilation system located at the foot of the chamber.

sleep chamber

That guinea pig box is just too much.

 

[sharkeeper]

You need a plenum with supply and return ducts feeding your sleeping quarters. Sonex will make it 100% anechoic. Completely isolating the pestilent noises in the 60 Hz range from kiddie boomers may take more engineering. This would consist of dynamically displaced aural panels that are biased by an amplifier network with a conjugate signal from the outside. The only downside is if the controller starts to hysterically oscillate, the CIO's can cause sufficient air compression to seriously injure or kill you!

-DAK-

 

[larsrulz]

I'm assuming you meant Homasote, but that would probably be your best option. It is a fairly good sound absorber, and it is easy to work with, in handy dry well form. You could easily then cut out an inlet and outlet for fans. Just attach pipes there and then use PET fiber insulation or something like that. You can also get sound absorbing paint. There is no way around some sound getting in, as air must come from somewhere and go to somewhere, but that would be rather minimal if you use 6" fans or something.

 

[DurocShark]

If you use good baffled ducts, you should be able to effectively silence any ventilation noise. Soundproofed boxes with baffles inside (like an auto muffler) should do it...

 

[Rufio]

Originally posted by: Mutilator
Have you tried simply running a fan next to your bed yet? Usually they make just enough noise to drown out everything else.

ahhhaha
he's trying to eliminate all the noise!

 

[KC5AV]

You could simply build a box around it with 4x8 sheets of plywood, and then put foam on the inside of the box. Look at full-size mattress pads like you can put on top of a mattress. I think the material they use in sound-proof rooms is very similar. You may not even have to enclose all sides... try building something to cover the top, ends, and side by the window, which would leave the other side open. That would make getting in and out easier.

 

[KC5AV]

double post...

 

[Rapidskies]

We have one of those "noise makers" that overide sounds while your sleeping. You can select rain, waves, white noise, whatever. It has a volume control on it so you can turn it up as loud as you need it. You quickly become used to it, and it is great to bring on trips where weird noises keep you up.

 

[Mutilator]

Originally posted by: Rufio

Originally posted by: Mutilator
Have you tried simply running a fan next to your bed yet? Usually they make just enough noise to drown out everything else.

ahhhaha
he's trying to eliminate all the noise!

Well you get use to the fan running and don't consider that noise anymore... it becomes relaxing to you. Seems like a better idea than trying to bury yourself alive every night.
Or you could sound proof the whole room w/foam panels.

 

[MattCo]

Why dont you build the enclosure and just duct from the heating/cooling vent in your room through the box?

-MC

 

[SagaLore]

Originally posted by: Zim Hosein
Welcome to ATOT Dragon21 :beer:

Don't bother, once he beta tests his chamber, the ventilation won't work and we won't hear from him again.

 

[zsouthboy]

Originally posted by: Ornery

Originally posted by: Dragon21
Already tried earplugs- too loud. I also live with very loud roomates and contend with a lot of light pollution so I thought this quasi-sensory depravation chamber idea would work well.
And a coffin would run out of air quickly...

It's a helluva lot easier to punch an intake and exhaust hole in a coffin than building an entire anechoic chamber on a small scale. I bet you could get a used one cheap!

ROFLMAO!!!!

 

[MaxDepth]

Originally posted by: FFMCobalt
I have only one mod to my bed. One that probably most of you don't have. A girlfriend.

Just one? Oh. Oh. I get it, she has accessories.

 

[Dragon21]

I've heard this term before- what is a baffled duct? Tried searching for it and couldn't find it (SP?)
I've seen a mod where the guy floated a panel of foam in a box to muffle the fan the blew out of his case....is this the same thing?

 

[Night201]

Make sure you can hear the smoke detector!

 

[Squisher]

Your idea of building a sound isolation chamber seems a little drastic.

Try different earplugs, they're not all the same. We must have half a dozen different kinds at work. If this isn't enough try wearing sound proofing ear muffs over the earplugs.

For the light issues, they sell sleeping masks that do a good job.

A water bed will help isolate vibrations coming through the floor.

My wife works midnights and gets by with the plugs and mask.