"Christine Dabney" > wrote in message
...
> On Sun, 13 Jul 2014 10:59:11 +0100, "Ophelia"
> > wrote:
>
>>I hadn't heard of swamp coolers before but from what I read, they are very
>>popular in various part of USA. If they work then I don't understand the
>>put downs about it.
>
> I live in an area (Albuquerque, NM) that uses swamp coolers
> extensively. I use one: it is a whole house one. It sits on top of
> my house and my landlord comes over in the late spring and changes the
> pads and services it. It goes off in October here...
>
> One thing that needs to be noted is that they don't work well with
> higher humidity. The humidity here in NM is often in single digits,
> except during monsoon season, which is now. Now the humidity is
> about 36% and that is high for this area. The swamp cooler is
> running right now, and is doing it's best to cool my house down. But
> due to the higher humidity, it isn't doing as well as it does when it
> is dryer outside.

Thanks very much for that. I guess no one is putting you down for using
one? A whole house one? How does that work??

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