It is easy to do, especially with such a high volume fan
On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 12:13 PM, Robert <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]>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 <[email protected]>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 [email protected]. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> 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 [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> 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 [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > 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 [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hexayurt. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
