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NinjaSteve · 07-19-2007, 10:56 AM

Or am I wrong? Sure it's much cheaper than central air but damn... when it's 100 degrees outside and 85 inside it's no fun.

BoyAlley · 07-19-2007, 11:35 AM

"Evaporated cooling"

Is that some sort of ghetto thing? Do you have like, buckets of water with fans in front of them all over your house?

Deej · 07-19-2007, 11:38 AM

BV · 07-19-2007, 11:39 AM

Can you say: Legionnaire's Disease?

royaljelly2 · 07-19-2007, 11:41 AM

I've not heard of that either. What is it?

Mr Steele · 07-19-2007, 11:47 AM

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Originally Posted by BoyAlley

"Evaporated cooling"

Is that some sort of ghetto thing? Do you have like, buckets of water with fans in front of them all over your house?

That's exactly what I thought it was..lol
I did that with buckets of ice cubes and fans for a few days when my a/c was givin me trouble....never again

I still stick by my ghetto ironing tho...leave the shower on hot for 30 mins and hang my clothes in the steam...I don't pay for water..lol

J. Falcon · 07-19-2007, 11:51 AM

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Originally Posted by Mr Steele

I still stick by my ghetto ironing tho...leave the shower on hot for 30 mins and hang my clothes in the steam...I don't pay for water..lol

Never tried it but I heard that works.

D · 07-19-2007, 11:55 AM

Swamp Coolers... how life before compressors were commonplace was bearable.

AgentCash · 07-19-2007, 12:00 PM

Make sure you're allowing enough windows open on the other side of the house for the air to escape... we hit the 120's here regularly and my swamp cooler keeps it in the mid 70's to low 80's until monsoon season.

tranza · 07-19-2007, 12:00 PM

WTF is evaporated cooling????????????

J. Falcon · 07-19-2007, 12:30 PM

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Originally Posted by tranza

WTF is evaporated cooling????????????

We're all waiting to know.

NinjaSteve · 07-19-2007, 12:30 PM

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Originally Posted by AgentCash

Make sure you're allowing enough windows open on the other side of the house for the air to escape... we hit the 120's here regularly and my swamp cooler keeps it in the mid 70's to low 80's until monsoon season.

Thanks for the tips.

For those that don't know about this...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evaporative_cooling

Cyndalie · 07-19-2007, 12:32 PM

Reminds me of old day car air conditioners with fans blowing on blocks of ice.

D · 07-19-2007, 12:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Cyndalie

Reminds me of old day car air conditioners with fans blowing on blocks of ice.

same kinda concept, yeah.

There was a CSI episode about someone that died in an accident related to that kinda setup.

For those that were asking "what's evaporated cooling?" after I posted that diagram... you're bozos.

Sly · 07-19-2007, 12:48 PM

Don't they still do something similar to that in sky-rises and such? I saw a special once about cooling in the '20s and was really shocked, I had no idea.

D, I always thought I know a decent amount about random stuff and how it works. You constantly pull things out of the air. Are you a fricking Encyclopedia?

rowan · 07-19-2007, 01:43 PM

Ducted evaporative cooling is popular in my neck of the woods, where we have hot and quite dry summers. You'll feel its limitations on a really hot and/or humid day though. The big plus of evaporative cooling is that it's a lot less costly than refrigerative as it's basically just a fan and a water pump.

For our next place I'm going to see if there's some sort of hybrid evaporative + refrigerative cooling system, with the refrigerative side kicking in on the warmer days. Or I may just get a small refrigerative split-system unit as supplementary cooling in the upstairs office.

D · 07-19-2007, 01:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Sly

Don't they still do something similar to that in sky-rises and such? I saw a special once about cooling in the '20s and was really shocked, I had no idea.

D, I always thought I know a decent amount about random stuff and how it works. You constantly pull things out of the air. Are you a fricking Encyclopedia?

Heheh... far from it.

What I do not yet know could fill dozens of encyclopedia sets, I'm sure.

And I'm also sure that both my employer and girlfriend could go on and on to you in regards to what I do not know...

But I do tend to try and acquire at least an average understanding of things I don't understand as I come across them... and I've worn quite a few different hats this life so far. And I dig on sharing genuine knowledge... I mean, what's the point in having it if not to share it as the opportunity presents itself, eh?

On swamp coolers: I'm not sure if they install them in high-rises or not, but it wouldn't surprise me much. They do still sell them - even in the 'central air' kinda scale. They use a lot less energy than compressor models, and humidify the air at the same time, and - provided you're not using a system that requires ice to function - are tons more cost-effective.

BV · 07-19-2007, 02:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sly

Don't they still do something similar to that in sky-rises and such? I saw a special once about cooling in the '20s and was really shocked, I had no idea.

D, I always thought I know a decent amount about random stuff and how it works. You constantly pull things out of the air. Are you a fricking Encyclopedia?

Was in the 70's that they discovered and named it, but they also accounted it for an outbreak in the 20's that at the time they had no idea what caused it. In 1977 legionnaires were having a convention and the cooling system in the building infected them, thus they named the disease Legionnaires Disease.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legionellosis

Matt 26z · 07-19-2007, 02:03 PM

There is a large plant place near me that does this in some of their greenhouses. The air is really cool when you stand in front of it.

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rowan Too lazy to set a custom title Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Australia Posts: 17,393	Ducted evaporative cooling is popular in my neck of the woods, where we have hot and quite dry summers. You'll feel its limitations on a really hot and/or humid day though. The big plus of evaporative cooling is that it's a lot less costly than refrigerative as it's basically just a fan and a water pump. For our next place I'm going to see if there's some sort of hybrid evaporative + refrigerative cooling system, with the refrigerative side kicking in on the warmer days. Or I may just get a small refrigerative split-system unit as supplementary cooling in the upstairs office.

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Matt 26z So Fucking Banned Industry Role: Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: ¤ª"˜¨๑۩۞۩๑¨˜"ª¤ Posts: 18,481	There is a large plant place near me that does this in some of their greenhouses. The air is really cool when you stand in front of it.