Comment on Is there a portable swamp cooler with a window hose like air conditioners have?

• USSMojave@startrek.website ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  No, AC reduces humidity while swamp coolers increase humidity. They would directly conflict and just waste electricity

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  • Venator@lemmy.nz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    In my use case I often don’t really need to change the humidity at all, I just want to cool down.

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  • Venator@lemmy.nz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    See other comment: sh.itjust.works/comment/17914169

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• deranger@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That’s a great question.

  At first I thought it’d be a wash. The heat absorbed by vaporizing the water in the swamp cooler will be released onto the evaporator coils of the AC, so that’s a net zero energy transfer.

  However, air is not good at conducting heat. This water evaporation/condensation cycle might transfer heat from the air to the evaporator coils of the AC better.

  You are going to have additional water and electricity costs from running the swamp cooler though, so I really don’t know.

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  • Venator@lemmy.nz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Could mitigate the water costs by draining the AC condensation into the swamp cooler 😅

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    • Venator@lemmy.nz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I guess youd need some water purifier involved though, which would probably get rid of any efficiency benefits

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