It's hot.

[Irving]

Kerry said AC is as dangerous as iSIS.

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LOL, sounds about right for Kerry.

[gnihcraes]

That sounds like a good system, especially if the cooler is on the north or east side. Ours are on the hot metal roof pushing air down. A few years ago I replaced our standard evaporative coolers with two high efficiency Breezair coolers. They have much thicker 4" solid pads that last 8-10 years and the units are self flushing based on mineral content of the water, so they stay clean. No pad slippage, far less maintenance and very low energy use, a small fraction of AC cost. I figure it'll save me 90 trips up and down the roof over ten years.

Our original Essex coolers were good for a max 12-16 degree differential, so when temps got over 100, the house was 85-89 degrees inside, pretty miserable. My neighbors have AC and spend four times as much on electricity. Every day I'm glad we popped for high efficiency Breezair evaporative coolers.

Yes, one of the smart things I ever did. Move the swamp cooler to a normal location that I can easily maintain. It was 10 feet off the ground for a few years. (window)

I had a HVAC sheetmetal guy make me a duct that is angled from the cooler down into the ground level window. Works great. Pull all of it out and plug it up for winter. A bit of a pain.

I don't like the idea of them on the roof anyways, seems to me it would defeat the purpose. Hot roof, little cooling.

Mine is an old sears model, rotating pads. I bought extra pads a few years back, so I think it's good for a while yet. I oversized it for the house, I can always turn it down.

I have it now plugged into a smartthings zigbee outlet, it comes on and off based on a temperature sensor in the house.

Solar on the house covers all tv's, computers and swamp cooler running. Little energy used on a sunny day.

[DFBrews]

2 of the 4 swamp coolers down in the shop today it was muggy and hot 86+ most of the day

[DFBrews]

My hydronic business partner is working on designing a huge green house with radiant cooled floors should be able to keep up on days like today

[sniper7]

I had to wear a jacket fishing today in Alaska. Hope I can bring some cool weather with me when I head home tomorrow

[Joe_K]

If your house has no AC, jump in the shower with your clothes on, put some ice in a bucket, sit your butt in front of the TV and dry fire your firearms at commercials you hate, then clean and functions check them.

Velocitas, Opprimere,
Violentia Operandi

[wyome]

This isn't hot....

[Big E3]

Plenty hot for me. The wife says she want to retire to Alaska. We turn on the A/C as soon as the house gets over 80 in May or June it will be on until September maybe October. Our utility bills are always triple in the summer over what they are in the spring or fall and almost double the winter. And I will gladly pay it. Excel keeps trying to get me to have their saver switch installed so they can control my A/C and I tell them every year hell no.

[Great-Kazoo]

Its hot AND humid ... like f'n Kansas (which is where we escaped from almost a decade and a half ago) ... at least there's constitutional carry in Kansas ... sheesh.

Sitting in SE SD across from Sioux city I owe way. Balmy 102, after it rained. Of course the humidity was 110% …

[Gman]

Excel keeps trying to get me to have their saver switch installed so they can control my A/C and I tell them every year hell no.

Ditto.