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Also if you live in an area with low humidity look into getting a swamp cooler. It won’t make the air as cold as AC but I personally prefer it
by therobots927 2y ago
Also if you live in an area with low humidity look into getting a swamp cooler. It won’t make the air as cold as AC but I personally prefer it
- slau 2y agoSwamp coolers can get really nasty and smelly due to being the perfect breeding ground for spores and other nasties.
- therobots927 2y agoI wasn’t aware of that. I haven’t had any issues and the swamp cooler at my place is old. It’s very dry here, but I guess if you were to not run the cooler for a while the water may sit and you could see stuff start to grow in it. If the water is running 20 hours a day I’d be skeptical that anything would settle there but I could be wrong. As soon as we stop using it for the season I drain the water out of the reservoir.
- DougN7 2y agoI wonder what would cause that. It seems intuitive that it would happen, but like the other commenter I don’t recall any bad smells when we used on growing up. But it was also a very dry climate, so maybe that is the solution?
- paulmd 2y agosame as humidifiers and they make bacteriostatic additives that help control this (although eventually it does need to be cleaned regardless).
- therobots927 2y agoThanks, I’ll look into additives
- hagbard_c 2y agoI suspect a UV lamp over the evaporator would solve this problem. It would not need to be lit continuously, just at a regular interval short enough to quash any fledgeling fungal or bacterial growth. There may be swamp coolers which have such a sterilising function integrated, otherwise it'd be a useful hack with market potential.
- therobots927 2y agoYeah that’s not a bad idea. And often swamp coolers have electric sockets inside so it wouldn’t be too hard to wire it out. If I wasn’t renting the place I’d probably give it a shot