WTF is a swamp cooler? (nft)

fabbate13 · July 2011

My ex-bf had one. It's like an indoor a/c unit.

I'd like to think they call it a swamp cooler because that bad boy stank! It doesn't exhaust outside like a window a/c unit would so all the funky cooled off air flow sits stagnant in your house. Or maybe his was just old....I dunno, it was bad. LOL

Melaneigh1 · July 2011

I thought they were just like giant fans. But I just looked them up and it looks like there's more to them than that.

akalutts · July 2011

It cools things off like an AC but also by adding moisture to the air. Really great in dry climates, really miserable and soggy in humid ones.

(Think about the cooling affect of evaporation and it's something like that.)

JenniferJaneC · July 2011

Thank you for asking. I had no idea either.

BravoBravo · July 2011

It is kind of like an A/C unit that uses evaporation to cool the air. Some houses out here in AZ have them.

cookie_queen · July 2011

Melaneigh:
I thought they were just like giant fans. But I just looked them up and it looks like there's more to them than that.

Really? I thought they were whole house fans too. They are kind of common around here. I had never heard of one until CO.

MandyBrownNoser · July 2011

They cool using evaporating water.

In dry places, they are a god send because the water makes the dry air a bit more bearable.

In humid places, like the south- where I lived in an apartment with one, they are the devil. A wet, nasty, moldy devil.

jCamsquared · July 2011

I had never heard of them until the FFFC thread.

TotallyNot_Isha · July 2011

Evap cooler. We had them when we lived in Barstow (desert).

cookie_queen · July 2011

MandyBrownNoser:
They cool using evaporating water.
In dry places, they are a god send because the water makes the dry air a bit more bearable.
In humid places, like the south- where I lived in an apartment with one, they are the devil. A wet, nasty, moldy devil.

That's why they're common around here! Thanks!

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