Solar Powered Evaporative Cooler

Dc evaporative coolers by solar chill.

Solar powered evaporative cooler.

Being familiar with evaporative coolers and living in an area with a dry climate i made a solar cooler using easily purchased parts to cool our 1600 square foot home. Solar powered air conditioner. As the water evaporates from the wet pads the heat is removed and cool air is the new product. A fan pulls hot air into the pads which leaves the other side as cool air.

This air is 30 degrees cooler as it re enters the. 8 000 btu s of cooling is produced for each gallon of water evaporated. After a bit of thinking i decide to have a go at a solar powered evaporative cooler and it worked so well i. Inside the cooler there are wet pads that are similar to a sponge.

An evaporative cooler s purpose is to cool the air. This is a solar air conditioner that won t drain energy from your solar power system. I was given a design challenge by the residents of foot rot flats build an air conditioner that requires no mains power and no piped water. I used an existing evaporative cooler since all the important components were already there.

Disconnect the swamp cooler from the main electric supply. These units operate as dc swamp coolers or evaporative coolers. Power in watts is given by multiplying the current in amps by the voltage in volts. 110 degree air is cooled to 75 f by evaporating water.