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[yqtszhj]

When I lived in another city I had a neighbor that was a real rocket scientist. He told me about doing missile test in AZ and that they had swamp coolers to deal with the heat and they worked good. Something about they used fans just blowing over water and the evaporation causing cooling. You seen any of those?

[gb6491]

When I lived in another city I had a neighbor that was a real rocket scientist. He told me about doing missile test in AZ and that they had swamp coolers to deal with the heat and they worked good. Something about they used fans just blowing over water and the evaporation causing cooling. You seen any of those?

They work...too varying degrees...lower humidity and the draft has to be right for them to be most effective. You see them on older homes and garages. Personally, I 'll take A/C over them every time, but they are cheaper to operate and will lower temps. I have a portable one that I'll use on the patio or if the garage door is open.
Regards,
Greg

[Armybrat]

Back in the '40s when driving the family across the Mojave & other deserts, my dad rented a portable swamp cooler that attached to the passenger side window. Rent it on one side of the desert, turn it in on the other side. It did work ok, better than just the hot dry blast from outside the '48 Dodge.

My grandparents had one in their little restaurant in Missourah back then too. It did blow a lot of pretty cool air.

When we were stationed at Fort Sam Houston & Camp Hood from 1946-49, we had no swamp coolers in our old converted Army barracks quarters. We had table top fans everywhere, and pointed them directly at us while sleeping. Did the same while living in Mexico in the early 1960s. While stationed at Fort Brooke in old San Juan, Puerto Rico 1950-54, we didn't need fans. The ocean breezes were just fine. Never saw an air conditioner for a house until 1954 in St. Louis, and an under the dash unit for a car until 1961.