No Idle A/C

if you can find a portable swamp cooler. the price be much cheaper. and work just as good as the one posted.

the problem is trying to find one small enough for a semi. and dealing with the ice issue. but i don't see the ice lasting very long in a hot semi.

 

I saw this one, probably on here a few years ago. Same thing, add ice. If you wanted too you could run pvc or copper pipe inside the unit to come out the outlet hole, so it would possibly be cooler. But for a few hours cool air it would help, and much cheaper than 400 bucks.

 

So basically a modified cooler that sucks in warm air and passes it through ice to cool it?
That ice would melt very quickly.
And I doubt the CFM rating would do very much to actually cool down much of anything.

 

i grew up in a very dry hot place swamp coolers use very little power (a water pump and a fan) and cool quite well. that is how we cooled our house in the summer even on 115* days. if the humidity level is very low you don't need to add ice to the cooler the evaporation of the water over the pads will chill the water. every once in a while hot 100+ and humid we would go up on the roof of the house and throw a block of ice in the swamp cooler.

the ice chest one is not a swamp cooler. a swamp cooler will have a water pump that drips water over pads and the air is drawn in threw the pads.

for them to work properly they need to draw air in from the outside and you have to have a place for the inside air to go outside, unlike refrigerated air conditiong. if it draws inside air it will raise the humidity leval to the point the water no longer evaporates to cool the water.

 

Thats pretty,.. um,.. cool.

Hurst

 

What you're looking at is basically a manufactured version of this.
they work, if you don't mind buying ice and tending to it.

 

oh, if you build one I would reccomend the little black Honeywell fans at Walmart, they're cheap, quiet, and you can run one almost endlessly on 200 watt inverter. plus it has 3 speeds which should give you some temp control.

I've never used a bucket cooler in a truck, but I have in an apartment. And I use a Honeywell fan all the time.

 

You won't be able to run any portable A/C just off an inverter. You're going to have to have a small generator.

My friend A/C went out, he was 1,000 miles away from the repair shop (warranty). He had a big inverter. (3,000 watt). So he got one of those small portables from Walmart, and it nearly fried his inverter and batteries..

 

you need to take another look. it's not a compressor AC. It uses ice.