I'm going to speculate on both questions, since I don't know what your exact configuration is. Inside placement will keep the cooler itself out of the sun, but the air flow is so high I'll bet you wouldn't notice the difference. Keeping dust off the cooler, as opposed to inside the cooler where it can't be helped, has little practical value other than cosmetic. The decision to put it inside or outside should have more to do with how difficult or kludgey the mechanical construction will be. If inside, you'll have to get water to it as well as air. You want your air duct into the hexayurt to have an area the same or greater than the intake or outlet of the cooler,whichever way you go.
Bill
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Subject: Re: [hexayurt] Re: Protecting Swamp Coolers in Playa Dust
Storms
From: nutrapuppy <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, August 18, 2010 1:35 am
To: [email protected]
I just got my cooler delivered and it is much larger than I expected, though it had smaller dimensions than others I saw online.
Is there any benefit to running it inside, but with a little duct to the outside?
I am thinking it would keep dust off of it almost entirely, and would it not cool better if it was that much more out of the sun? Also, mine has a lot of controls on the upper front. I have plenty of room to keep it inside...so is there a reason I should NOT do that ,assuming I do what it takes to get dry air input from a duct-to-window rig?
Thanks,
NPOn Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 7:07 AM, Bill Wiltschko <[email protected]> wrote:--You're right. A swamp cooler needs a constant source of dry air that the unit will make wetter and cooler. You're also right about building a "contraption." That was my last year's project. I built a plenum, a box on which the swamp cooler sat, that had an open end connected to a window near the ground of one of the Hexayurt walls.
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Subject: Re: [hexayurt] Re: Protecting Swamp Coolers in Playa Dust
Storms--From: nutrapuppy <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, August 13, 2010 5:57 pm
To: [email protected]
I borrowed a small vintage swamp cooler 2 years ago, which was destroyed when our gennie blew some kind of square wave at the entire camp.
I had it outside a little window, it worked fine and just as has been reported, the filter didn't ever need much cleaning because the water took the dust to the bottom of the tank.
NOW I have purchased one on wheels, the smallest I could find online. It looks kinda like the Symphony in the previous link. But I have no idea about the inner workings.
I suppose this new one needs to sit outside and I have to figure a contraption to capture all the output and deliver it through a window. The marketing seems to indicate you can use it inside any room, but that would last all of 10 minutes in a Hexayurt before you have to ventilate with new dry air.
Right? Otherwise the moisture inside would keep it from cooling any further.On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 1:28 PM, Bill <[email protected]> wrote:
1) furnace filters come in varying grades of filtering ability. The
best will filter out playa dust. However, the best also present the
highest resistance to air flow. It's a trade-off.
2) My TurboKool swamp cooler works much like Tony described his. The
pad is the filter and water flowing over or against the pad
automatically cleans it, leaving most dust at the bottom and out of
the way. I took out the pad out at one point to clean, and found it
didn't need to be cleaned. I originally put a furnace filter over
the air intake last year, but soon found it was superfluous.
Bill
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