Umm, I bet there's a gennie in the picture somewhere... On Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 9:14 AM ken winston caine < ken.winston.ca...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Am I missing sonething? > > Looks like the Honeywell 270 would draw about 460 amps daily from your 12v > battery bank if run around the clock. That means it would discharge 10 6v > 220-amp deep-cycle golf cart batteries by just less than 50% daily, so long > as they are fully recharged each day. That is about as far as you can go > without damaging the batteries. > > To fully recharge that size battery bank on clear days that are fully > sunny between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. would require more than a kilowatt's worth > of 12v solar panels -- 11 100-watt panels would probably do it. (Multiply > your panel's rated wattage by four and that is roughly what you can expect > it to produce daily, on average, year-round on clear days, based on my just > short of 30 years of real-world experience with solar in the Southwest. > Late summer in Nevada you might get 10% to 15% more than that.) > > That is a lot of equipment and weight to haul, and a lot of expense to go > to, in order to run a $200, 230 watts per hour commercial swamp cooler > efficiently. > > And then, with the Honeywell's design, you still face the challenge of how > to draw in and exhaust 270 cubic feet of air per minute. Evaporative > cooling only works well so long as you are drawing in fresh dry air and > exhausting stale, damp air at roughly the same rate. > > I question the practicality of using the Honeywell 270 unit on the Playa. > > > > On Jul 27, 2018 9:05 AM, <hexayurt@googlegroups.com> wrote: > > hexayurt@googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/forum/?utm_source=digest&utm_medium=email#!forum/hexayurt/topics> > Google > Groups > <https://groups.google.com/forum/?utm_source=digest&utm_medium=email/#!overview> > <https://groups.google.com/forum/?utm_source=digest&utm_medium=email/#!overview> > Topic digest > View all topics > <https://groups.google.com/forum/?utm_source=digest&utm_medium=email#!forum/hexayurt/topics> > > - Swamp Cooler 2.0 > <#m_-7058802269343346871_m_-6741504196040149180_group_thread_0> - 3 > Updates > > Swamp Cooler 2.0 > <http://groups.google.com/group/hexayurt/t/b268cd2877462f96?utm_source=digest&utm_medium=email> > Jay Batson <batson...@gmail.com>: Jul 27 02:38AM -0700 > > There is such amazing awesomeness in this. Thanks for posting., > > Do you dare post it on Figjam's ePlaya thread about swamp coolers > <https://eplaya.burningman.org/viewtopic.php?t=33842>, or do you think > that's just asking for unkind comments > > > > On Wednesday, July 25, 2018 at 7:23:58 PM UTC+2, Steve Upstill (Swifty) > wrote: > Kevin Fischer <kfisc...@gmail.com>: Jul 27 02:57AM -0700 > > I admire the DIY attitude but it should be more widely known that mass > manufactured swamp coolers are available on Amazon Prime and the $200 one > will evaporate more water than you probably want to give it if you run it > on high and is overkill for an H12. > > > https://www.amazon.com/SPT-SF-614P-Evaporative-Cooler-Cooling/dp/B00TRLXXWA/ref=sr_1_17?s=home-garden&ie=UTF8&qid=1532685161&sr=1-17&keywords=swamp+cooler > is what I used last year and it kept me sleeping in till 2PM without fail. > > You can build more airflow for the price yourself but perfectly lining up > the evap pads is hard and nothing hand build will be as well sealed as what > you can buy online. > > Burning Man: Adventures in extreme consumerism. > > Jay Batson <batson...@gmail.com>: Jul 27 12:21PM +0200 > > Kevin - > > The general setup is to put the swamp cooler outside the yurt / tent, and > vent it inside. I don’t see how to do this with that Amazon unit. Have you > tried putting that unit inside the structure to be cooled? Is the net temp > change good? > > > -------- > Jay Batson > > batson...@gmail.com <mailto:batson...@gmail.com> > Mobile: +1-978-758-1599 <(978)%20758-1599> > Blog: http://startupdj.com <http://startupdj.com/> > Twitter: @jab <http://twitter.com/jab> > Schedule time to meet or talk <http://doodle.com/batsonjay> > Back to top <#m_-7058802269343346871_m_-6741504196040149180_digest_top> > You received this digest because you're subscribed to updates for this > group. 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