Swamp coolers by evaporation, when water evaporates it cools off and that air is piped into the yurt. The swamp cooled air will make the cooled area more cool and more moist. Putting the swamp cooler inside will reduce it's efficiency. Putting it outside will maximize it. Unless I don't understand what your asking here. With those winds be sure you can secure it.
For the exhaust I take you mean the air coming out of the yurt (as opposed to the cooled air coming out of the swamp cooler and entering the yurt)? The swamp cooler will force pressure into the yurt and yes, you'll need some place for the air to come out to make it work. Generally I think of putting the exhaust on the farthest side opposite the incoming cool air. So if I pipe the air in close to the ground, the best exhaust port would be up high, which might be impractical. Best would be to have the incoming air coming in very high on the roof and the exhaust being low, but that's impractical and inefficient too. I'm still considering my incoming and outgoing ports. I'm thinking of having it come in at the right elbow height to minimize the distance the cooled air has to travel out of the bucket. And the incoming swamp air to be on the opposite side of a window. I may cut a special round swamp cooler "window"/port into the hexayurt, I'm not sure, there are pros and cons to that. All that said, I've only had a swamp cooler in a house. This is my first in a yurt, and on the playa ta boot. I did some cowboy math and came up with the standard H12 hexayurt to be approx 1000'^3. (Anybody have a better number?) Given the thread recommending 3-5 air changes/minute, I get the range the fan needs to push 200CFM-333CFM. Higher would push more air in the yurt and increase the pressure in the yurt. A little might be better, too much pressure would degrade performance, but I won't know for sure until I test it. Dano! On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 11:59 PM, Ray S <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone. This will be my 3rd year at the playa with a hexayurt and > I've finally managed to build myself a swamp cooler (see Figjam's thread > here: http://eplaya.burningman.com/viewtopic.php?f=280&t=33842&start=1500 ). > I haven't decided if I'll have it outside of my yurt with the fan poking > through a hole fit for it, or have it inside with a hole cut for the vent > on the back of the cooler.. I'm figuring on trying both and see what works > best. > > My real question is, what should I do for exhaust? I have an HVAC furnace > filter which is around 16" x 22" or something around that. I was thinking > of cutting a hole for it on the opposite side of where I have my swamp > cooler mounted, so I would hopefully get a cross breeze and passively > exhaust out while the fan on the cooler is running. The fan I'm using on > my swamp cooler is the Endless Breeze which is rated at 900CFM on high, but > I'll probably be running it on low or medium which I'd imagine would be > closer to 300-600CFM. Would there be enough pressure from this fan pushing > air in to force air out the other side? Maybe I should go for two exhaust > windows? I'm hoping someone out there has done something similar and can > chime in :) > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "hexayurt" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/hexayurt/-/428TEX5dxBYJ. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/hexayurt?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "hexayurt" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hexayurt?hl=en.
