How to sleep without A/C while in Texas at noon?

Swamp cooler can be a block of ice either regular ice or dry ice in front of a fan. The only draw back with dry ice in a truck with the windows closed is you can suffocate as the co2 does something to the air. I know that's not a good explanation but I know it can be deadly as told to me many years ago by the company chemist when I hauled all hazmat.

Another way was to put wet towels in the windows and the wind blowing by them would cool the air from from the evaporation of the water in the towels. but it turned the dirt on the floors to mud from the dripping waer!

 

Behold, the power of CO2...

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Gotta love you Peterbilt guys...lol You do realize Pete's and KW's are made by the same company right?

 

I love ya all but 135 is 135 I dont care where you are

 

Amen to that brother

 

Just so you know If you live in the Desert (I do) a swamp cooler can work as well as or even better than an AC unit. But as you say if the humidity goes up it sucks all you get is hot moist air causing it to feel hotter what happens is the pads are kept wet and the hot dry air is drawn through them and cooled cooling the space.

 

One of the biggest jobs an A/C does is to pull moisture out of the air. Swamp coolers work great in drier climates, but as stated above, they suck in high humidity areas.

 

Heh, I first learned about swamp coolers a year ago. I live in Michigan, they don't even sell them here. It's so humid they wouldn't even increase the humidity, let alone cool the air. Funny, huh?

 

For many years, and still quite a few to this day, lots of W TX homes had them on the roof. Ducted in just like central a/c. And they could freeze your fanny off when temp dropped down late at night. Still use a lot of them in restaurants to cool kitchen area. Lot cheaper than a/c. Worst problem around here is lime in water. Pads get clogged. Lines and pump get fouled. You can run a few gallons of vinegar through them and clean them out. Got to make sure and get all the vinegar out as it is corrosive. But not near as bad as CLR or some of the other instant cleaners. Wish they would do job on my house. Sure run a lot cheaper than 230 volt compressor. I do have one in my shop for when it is hot out there.

 

We had them back in the late 50's and early 60's. Then my parents got ac. The swamp coolers just didn't work for us in the Austin area.