Thank you! This is the explanation I was needing! Just picked up a 30 gallon screw top barrel, hoping to have this up and running completely on solar by the playa!!!! Thanks again
Sent from my iPhone On Aug 12, 2013, at 11:38 AM, Josh and Cody <joshandc...@gmail.com> wrote: > the way a swamp cooler works is by evaporating water removing the latent heat > of vaporization... just like the cooling from sweat. > > Swamp coolers work best with lots of evaporation. so bringing in that hot > dry air, passing it thru the mesh with water causes the air to drop it's > temperature by evaporating water. sometimes as much as 15-20 degrees cooler. > the dryer the air, the better the effect. > > The air picks up moisture as well, so you will need and exhaust somewhere, > or you could build a very moist space in a sealed hexayurt. > > many people use a HEPA furnace filer as the "out" for the air. > > We've used these even on tent structures and they cool the air significantly, > but only if the moisture moves out! If the moisture collects over time in > the Hexayurt, it is ... not as pleasant! More humid and damp. > > So recirculating air from the hex and back into the swamp cooler does not > really work. > > This is very different that an Air Conditioner, which strips moisture OUT of > the air, and cools it. Dry cool air feels "colder" and allows for natural > sweat cooling in a normally humid place. This is why you need humidifiers in > a house in Nevada when you run your air conditioner, it strips the water out > of already very dry air. > > > > > On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 9:05 AM, Vladimir Khodel <vkho...@gmail.com> wrote: >> You can set it up in the yurt if you can duct the outside air to come into >> the swamp cooler, such as with a rectangular trash can design setting it >> with the intake at the hole in the wall. >> >> You can not get efficient cooling if you use yurt air as the source, since >> it is already 4-6 times more humid than the outside air. I guess this rules >> out the bucket design :) >> >> Cheers, >> >> Vladimir >> >> >> On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 6:21 PM, Robert Rubino <robertrub...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> So im looking at a solar panel powered attic fan and i have my solar pond >>> pump, and am building it on my bucket.... my question is, does the swamp >>> cooler have to be outside the yurt and plumed in. or can i set it up in >>> the yurt ( i sleep with a fan all the time anyway so the sound doesn't >>> bother me.) or will that not cool corectly? >>> >>> i have found plenty of info on how to build it, but not much on deploying >>> it. im probably over thinking it. >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "hexayurt" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to hexayurt+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> To post to this group, send email to hexayurt@googlegroups.com. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hexayurt. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "hexayurt" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to hexayurt+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to hexayurt@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hexayurt. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "hexayurt" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to hexayurt+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to hexayurt@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hexayurt. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "hexayurt" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to hexayurt+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to hexayurt@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hexayurt. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
