Swamp coolers, or evaporative coolers, help cut summer electricity bills. Unlike an air conditioner, a swamp cooler cools your home’s air by evaporation. Evaporative coolers simply need electricity to run a fan to chill your room.
Evaporative cooling’s energy savings and sustainability are great! Optimize your evaporative cooler. To optimize efficiency, learn swamp cooler strategies.
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Use Your Swamp Cooler In Dry Climates
Evaporative coolers on humid days are the worst. Fail. Evaporative coolers cool by releasing fresh water into dry air. The system’s fan circulates chilly air from water evaporation. Dry air cools damp skin like sweating.
Seasonally Use Your Swamp Cooler
Portable evaporative cooling units are suitable for non-desert residents. This compact cooling equipment makes it easy to move and store when it’s humid outside.
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Evaporative coolers require “unlearning” air conditioning. Swamp coolers prefer fresh air, whereas air conditioners prefer sealed and insulated spaces. Swamp coolers humidify your home. Humidity hinders your evaporative cooler. Fix this by cracking a few windows to let dry air in and moist air out.
Dehumidify
If it’s too hot, use a dehumidifier instead of windows. Dehumidifiers collect extra moisture in a tank until you empty them. A dehumidifier alone can make your house feel cooler in the summer on a humid day by creating drier air that helps your body’s natural sweat operate better. Similar methods boost swamp cooler efficiency. Dehumidifiers work best near evaporative cooler air intake grills. This will give the swamp cooler pad the driest air for evaporation.
Develop A Green Thumb
Reduce humidity with moisture-absorbing houseplants. Plants that derive most of their water from the air can help your swamp cooler by keeping your house a little drier.
Try Different Positions
One-room evaporative coolers are portable. For maximum efficiency, place the unit in its recommended room size. Place the swamp cooler so the blower blows cold air straight at your dining table or living sofa. The fan’s wind and frigid air will hit you directly. Wheel your portable cooler till you find the greatest spot for your home.
Prepare The Pads
When you start an evaporative cooler, the cooling pads need time to absorb water. They can take up to 15 minutes to become saturated, but once they are, they can more easily wick water from the tank. Before turning on the fan, fill the water reservoir and let the pads function. This way, you won’t waste energy sending hot air around before your machine reaches maximum cooling capability.
Cool Water
Cool to room temperature water performs better than hot water, which evaporates faster because it’s closer to the boiling point. A physics study found that evaporative coolers performed best with 50-degree water.
Don’t Ice
However, cold water’s benefits are limited. The study above revealed the best temperature to be 50 degrees, however adding ice to lower water to the 30s or 40s doesn’t help. Because the ice must melt before it can evaporate, you’re not enhancing the efficiency of evaporation, which provides most of this system’s cooling.
Keep Your Cooler
Clean and maintained swamp coolers work best. Before operating your air conditioner in the summer and storing it for the winter, examine and clean it. You should also inspect mid-season. Make sure your maintenance checklist includes the following:
• Clean outside.
• Fans and vacuum intake grills
• Use water and mild soap to clean the water tank.
• Replace cracked or mildewed cooling pads.
