At first I thought it’d be a wash. The heat absorbed by vaporizing the water in the swamp cooler will be released onto the evaporator coils of the AC, so that’s a net zero energy transfer.
However, air is not good at conducting heat. This water evaporation/condensation cycle might transfer heat from the air to the evaporator coils of the AC better.
You are going to have additional water and electricity costs from running the swamp cooler though, so I really don’t know. I suppose you could run the condensation from the AC back to the swamp cooler to greatly reduce water usage.
Could mitigate the water costs by draining the AC condensation into the swamp cooler 😅 and maybe could use the airflow from the AC to drive the swamp cooler instead of it having its own fan
I wonder if using a swamp cooler at the same time as AC would increase the efficiency 🤔
No, AC reduces humidity while swamp coolers increase humidity. They would directly conflict and just waste electricity
That’s a great question.
At first I thought it’d be a wash. The heat absorbed by vaporizing the water in the swamp cooler will be released onto the evaporator coils of the AC, so that’s a net zero energy transfer.
However, air is not good at conducting heat. This water evaporation/condensation cycle might transfer heat from the air to the evaporator coils of the AC better.
You are going to have additional water and electricity costs from running the swamp cooler though, so I really don’t know. I suppose you could run the condensation from the AC back to the swamp cooler to greatly reduce water usage.
Could mitigate the water costs by draining the AC condensation into the swamp cooler 😅 and maybe could use the airflow from the AC to drive the swamp cooler instead of it having its own fan