Swamp cooler. Evaporative cooler.
Outside the Room. When daughter Jenny and i hacked through the wall of this trailer and turned the screened in porch into the ROOM, that summer, we put in this cooler. I had very little money then, none of us did. So they found the smallest most reasonable one. Today, i would have researched for one that is
quiet
the most quiet. I so so love quiet. But…it Whirrs cheerfully along.
maybe you can see how it works. There is a line to a water source that the yellow pump pulls in and sends up and out through the spokes that drip down into the aspen pads that are on the walls. As the water that soaks the pads evaporates, because of the whirring fan, cool air is generated and blown in to the house.
shredded aspen pad
the pump sits in a little dumb plastic basket that is supposed to filter out debris, and i guess it sort of does? hmmmm….and the square thing on the right is the "float", which monitors the need or not for more water. Water from the Source is left constant. The float turns it on or off. Asks for more or not. it's ingenious.
this is the configuration for Source. A kind of wing nut thing…i don't know the proper names, but a valve. The water is left in the ON position so that water is free to enter the cooler. There is the
knob, or whatever it might be called that can be turned on and off to a hose when afixed…the hose, when afixed here means water to the Goat tub.
this is inside the house. in cold times, it's stuffed with two pillows to keep the cold out
the cover and you can see where moisture…ie" Rain marked the wall…
windthread 
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