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Posted by on September 27, 2007, 11:26 am
>The average house unit in Florida is several tins ad it produces about
>1 gallon of cool condensed water per day HMMM?
Tins? :-)
>Some details please on the swamp cooler design.
Goswami used an Acme Kool Cell greenhouse evaporative cooler kit. Swamp
Thing is another brand. Stuppy Greenhouse Manufacturing sells a 10' length
of Swamp Thing pads and gutters and overhead sprinklers for $181.
Goswami cut one down to make something like a 2.5' cube surrounding
an outdoor condensing unit. You also need something like Stuppy's $268
"Plumbing completion package" which has a float valve and an adjustable
bleedoff valve (nominally 1%) to avoid mineral buildup. The idea is
to surround the condensing coil with a swamp cooler box.
>Would this idea work?
>
>Sink a 55 gallon drum into the 70* ground to cool the water and to hide it.
The ground won't help much in cooling it.
>Pipe all condensate into the drum.
Sounds good.
>Swamp cooler surrounding the condenser.
You might just trickle the mineral-free condensate and rainwater
over the coil, with no swamp cooler.
>The utilities last month were almost $700.
>The savings won,t equal the added bother.
... 0.2x700 = $140 per month? :-)
Nick
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