Mike,

I use a swamp cooler from Home Depot when I'm working under my vans here
in Phoenix.  It's very effective in May and June.  Much less so in July
and August when the humidity goes up.

I accidentally left the cooler on in a closed garage a while back, and
within minutes the air was pretty much unbearable.  You absolutely need
air throughput for a swamp cooler to work.

Karl Wolz

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On
Behalf Of
> Rocket J Squirrel
> Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 5:31 PM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: Swamp cooler, old threads never die
>
> Tim Schneider wrote:
>
> > ** At 03:45 PM 8/25/2004,  .michael.elliott@ADELPHIA.NET  Rocky
wrote:**
> >
> > >> I note that Swampy's Model MW1 "MightyKool 3-Speed Personal
Cooler
> > >> Equipped with Powerful Twin Brushless Energy Saving Motors" (!!!)
, a
> > >> small, 3-lb unit which draws only  .9,  1.3, or 1.6 amperes (Low,
> > >> Medium, High settings), seems to be targeted at folks on a tight
> > energy
> > >> budget.
> > >>
> > >> http://www.swampy.net/wb.html
> >
> >
> > I live right down the darn street from these folks and
> > they wouldn't even let me stop by (called them on the
> > phone and emailed)  to check things out.  They wanted
> > to sort out all the details over the phone, which is
> > fine, but I'm 'right' down the road literally, and they
> > didnt want to work with me so I didn't bother to
> > prusue further.  The units looked too expensive to
> > me, to just "trust" that they would work that well.
> >
> That speaks volumes. Thanks for the feedback!
>
> The unit does seem expensive, yes. Plus, as I understand it, you don't
> want to just recycle the air in the cabin, as that will just make it
> more and more humid, reducing the efficiency of the cooler. This unit
> seems as though it recycles cabin air. One wants to bring in outside
> air, which needs to be dry enough to let the magic of evaporation do
> that voodoo that it do do.
>
> I'm cc:ing a copy of this post to swampy, they may have a comment.
>
> Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
> 71 VW Type 2 / 84 Westy: A poor but proud race.
> KG6RCR
>
>
> >