If you stand next to a Quiet Cool 36, you’re almost in the shadows of a high-performance evaporative cooler, a portable climate controlling appliance that just reaches the chin of an average height man. It’s tall, then, this water-powered housing. At 1.5 metres square, the rotomoulded polyethylene package looks broad enough to pump air into […]
It’s time to plan for the winter weather. Your evaporative cooler has toiled like a champ through the hot summer, but now the season has taken a swing. Here’s how to winterize your evaporative cooler, to ensure it is serviced and taken care of so that it’s ready for the next hot spell. Begin by […]
Anyone can install a basic mist system. Even garden sprinklers can be repurposed as a misting mechanism, although the lack of a recirculating feature would send your water bill skyrocketing. Meanwhile, evaporative coolers check off all the boxes in the pros column, including that all-important recirculation feature. Here, take a look at a few typical […]
There are technical terms that explain exactly what makes evaporative coolers energy efficient. They dutifully relate heat conservation equations, describe enthalpy conditions, and generally focus on the science that makes the evaporative process so effective, even when the mercury level balloons upward during a heat wave. All of that science talk is just a tad […]
We’d be neglecting our energy saving responsibilities if we didn’t treat evaporative cooling vents with the same critical eye we reserve for the appliance heart. Tasked with important cooling conveyance duties, these air discharge outlets become the weak link in the environmental control chain when they’re not sealed properly. Prone to draughts, the vents will […]
A review of multiple evaporative cooling appliances, as tendered by Australian and Chinese manufacturers, might reveal a few worrying product discrepancies. Sure, the features listed on the brochures by both national cooling authorities look generally identical. Powerful fans, water-absorbent media, and brawny electrical pumps are discussed at some length in their branded product literature. Still, […]
If the evaporative cooling process is nature’s own method of nurturing animals and produce, why can’t we recruit the same process? In livestock sheds and commercial greenhouses, nature’s cooling mechanism would convince the occupants of these enclosures that they were still out in the wild. Well, that’s exactly the action that’s mimicked by top-notch evaporative […]
Building managers experience nasty headaches when they balance cost against cooling inside a warehouse. They take one look at the sizable floor space and can’t help calculating the amount of cooling energy required to offset the heat load. It can be done, obviously, but can this goal be achieved without incurring a ballooning energy bill? […]
Building managers routinely underestimate evaporative cooling appliances. Home owners and farmers are also guilty of this blunder. All-in-all, many of us are dazzled by chemical cooling technology, so we’ve allowed ourselves to be led astray by untrue claims. These are the common misconceptions about evaporative coolers, the “mythconceptions” we’re about to bust. First, off, these […]
A warehouse on a busy and hot summer day can feel almost sweltering — at least if it is improperly cooled. Somewhere along the way we accepted the fact that warehouses are not supposed to be comfortable places. Busy, yes, but not comfortable. This line of thinking creates an unpleasant work environment that can actually […]