On Thu, 9 Aug 2007, Chris Moore wrote:
> michael hast wrote:
>> Chuck Hast wrote:
>>> On 8/9/07, Eben King <eben01@verizon.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> You'd think there would be something structured like a central cooling
>>>> system, but the size of an in-window AC, where it'd consist of a
>>>> microwave-size-or-smaller unit that goes in the room to be cooled,
>>>> connected by coolant hoses to a unit outside that would cool the fluid
>>>> in the hoses. But I've never heard of one.
>>>
>>> There are just such units, the condenser is mounted outside with the com-
>>> pressor and the evaporator is mounted in the room to be cooled. We had
>>> one in our server room in the old GTE Mobilenet building. You install the
>>> evaporator in the room up near the ceiling and run the coolant piping out
>>> to the exterior where you mount the evaporator/compressor unit.
>>>
>>> I have seen them more and more lately.
>>>
>>> As to the units that have hoses to circulate exterior air, most of them
>>> I have seen use a window insert that has the two hoses going to it. Or
>>> as some- one pointed out, you could just punch a couple of holes in the
>>> wall and use drier ports without the flapper valve to direct the air in
>>> and out. Make sure you have some sort of mesh over each port, you could
>>> keep the flapper valve on the exhaust port, but the inlet will need a
>>> screen on it rather than a flapper or your will get critters up in
>>> there...
>>>
>> What are they called, how much do they cost, and where can I get one?
>>
> We just got one of the stand up units (portable AC,it's on casters) at work
> and it works pretty good. We got it at home depot and it was between
> $400-$500. The unit is rated at 10,000 btu's and is supposed to cool around
> 400 sq ft. We have it in a 200 sq ft room and it does a good job at keeping
> the room in the 70's instead of the 80's, but around 200 sq ft is as big as
> I'd suggest. One thing to consider is the type of window that you have
> because the unit comes with a vent adapter for sliding windows, we have the
> old style jalousie window and we had to make a custom vent that replaced the
> screen for the window. The other thing is that you have to drain the unit of
> water,about every three hours. I was able to run my drain line through the
> custom adapter to the outside so no draining for me. Hope this is helpful.
> You could always consider the 'Poor mans AC', a bowl of ice and a fan.
Or a swamp cooler, but they don't work very well when the RH is high.
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