In Arizona, an evaporative cooler is very effective most of the year and is ideal for a garage. Even on the hottest days, 95F air out of the swamp cooler is better than nothing, and you'd still get much cooler air at night. Or, run the window a/c instead on the hottest/humid days.
http://www.azcentral.com/weather/articles/evap.html On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 2:01 PM, Ben Goren via EV <[email protected]> wrote: > On May 31, 2015, at 1:46 PM, Jay Summet <[email protected]> wrote: > > > ....but proably not at all > > worth the time/effort. > > Ah, well. 'Twas a thought > > > My understanding is that the 20%-80% range is the > > "safe" range. > > Certainly makes things easier...take the time to charge to 80%, program > the car to start charging so it'll finish by 6:00 am (always with a few > degrees of the coolest time of day), and forget about it otherwise. > > They might be open to keeping the window A/C unit in the garage for the > purposes of keeping the batteries cool. Seems like that might be the only > other measure worth considering. > > Thanks, all -- but I certainly would welcome any other creative ideas > anybody might have! > > b& > -------------- next part -------------- > A non-text attachment was scrubbed... > Name: signature.asc > Type: application/pgp-signature > Size: 801 bytes > Desc: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail > URL: < > http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20150531/b2a8f91d/attachment.pgp > > > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA ( > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20150531/fa92c565/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
