Re: Swampy Mighty Kool swamp cooler
I been using swamp coolers for 3 years and as far as cooling a whole area, its not going to happen. It cools a very small area. The lifesmart has the same weakness almost all the portable swamp coolers I see have. It has no where to plug in a intake flexible hose. You need outside air for it to work, otherwise you have to place it by the window or open door. With no outside air you will get the "sauna effect describe.
From my own experiments, the best material to use is "celdek" which is hard cardboard, It has a 5 year useful life and never gets clogged or loses efficiency. It wont work on the bucket designs because you cant shape it into a round design and I like to use at least 3" thick celdek, some use 6 inch thick celdek.
My latest design I build uses a 9 inch car radiator electric fan (7 amps max) holds 2 gallons of water and I even install 2 water pumps for redundancy. This is what a real 12 volt swamp cooler should look like. The design flaw on mine is the 1 six inch intake, I actually need 2 intakes so it can suck in more air. Its about as powerful as a fantastic fan and I can throttle it down to about 1 amp when i don't need full power.
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