"KenK" > wrote in message
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> "Julie Bove" > wrote in
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>> Both of my swamp coolers were inexpensive. None of the ones I looked
>> at got very good reviews and the last one I bought got very mixed
>> ones. Those who got working ones must have gotten very lucky. Mine
>> worked well only a very few times. I doubt that I will buy another.
>> Unless someone manages to make one that isn't prone to problems.
>>
>
> I've had good luck with all mine over the past 30 - 40 years. Never
> bother to look them up - just buy what the installer sells. But you have
> to tinker with them. Be sure the lines from the water distributer hub
> through the lines to the pads ("spider") are all working right. Things
> get plugged up, especially with very hard well water like I have. Have to
> be sure the pump is working, that the mesh water filter around pump is
> not plugged up. And of course that the water feed to the cooler is
> working right and the float valve in the cooler is allowing water to flow
> into the cooler.
>
> Sounds like a lot of trouble but usually there are few problems. Easy to
> fix things yourself, no expensive A/C servicing bill.

Mine were cheap portables. Nothing to install. Storing them when not in use
was a problem though. No good place to put them.