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| Thread ID: 85836 | 2007-12-23 23:21:00 | how do you cool a room? | nrrrta (11415) | PC World Chat |
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| 624069 | 2007-12-23 23:21:00 | Can you believe it, Auckland nice warm summer day, some idiot has got their cloths in a cloths dryer, how do some people get cheap power? For more reading www.abc.net.au FANS DO NOT COOL A ROOM, in fact they add to the heat, well I knew that before I went to google. |
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| 624070 | 2007-12-24 00:22:00 | en.wikipedia.org www.wonderquest.com |
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| 624071 | 2007-12-25 05:01:00 | Ceiling fans are the answer, if u can't afford AC. | lakewoodlady (103) | ||
| 624072 | 2007-12-25 10:57:00 | Open the windows and turn on the fan - works for me | Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 624073 | 2007-12-26 10:51:00 | Ceiling fans are the answer, if u can't afford AC. For some reason, I figured out when I was 10/11 that fans do not cool rooms, I remember being in a classroom, and figuring hot air up there is being blown down on us, and knowing that electric motors get hot thanks to burning myself on my tamiya car motor once :lol: thinking back, it just seems weird that I would come up with that |
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| 624074 | 2007-12-26 16:05:00 | Air in motion appears to be cooler . . . it's the human response to overheating by sweating and the moving air that helps with natural evaporation . Electric fans make a little heat . . but it is well offset by the velocity of the air . There's a lot of conjecture about if air going up or going down is the best for which season . It doesn't make much difference . Moving the air is important . . and some like to feel the air lifting their toupee or blowing down their bodice . . . and that's OK . . . but it's academic if the air is moving; it is working to keep thermal zonification broken up . I made up that word . . if you use it, mail me $0 . 10NZ each time YOU use it even in a cocktail party or kegger! Swampers are the best . . but you need to have a lot lower humidity than a sea-coast home to let them work well . It looks to me that not much, if any of NZ, is semi-arid or even close to dry enough to warrant an evaporative cooler . I may be wrong here about NZ being a tropical paradise with dripping huge trees in a swamp and verdant greenbelts . . . it happened once in the distant past . My swamper works well here (US-Southern California) . . . and it can get 'way down near to 13ºC inside . . . so cold that I had to put a smaller electric motor into it to keep the air flow lower . I started at ¾HP, went to ½HP and am now at 1/3HP . This, of course is during the Summer; right now it is almost Winter and the swamper is blanked off so I don't lose heat thru the unit . Swampers are good for a lot of things like removing a lot of smoke (electronic, cooking, fireplace, animal sacrifices) from the house quickly . You can pump ambient air thru the place fast and get a complete air exchange in just a couple of minutes on high speed . . . or all night long at low speed . Ours has a three-speed motor (different windings, not a rheostat!) and we can pick and choose what we want . Electrical costs are minimal, and water is cheap . That's all it uses . |
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