Solar Powered Evaporative Cooler

Inside the cooler there are wet pads that are similar to a sponge.

Solar powered evaporative cooler.

110 degree air is cooled to 75 f by evaporating water. Check the outside of the cooler for a label that tells the measurement of electrical current in amps that the unit uses. This is a solar air conditioner that won t drain energy from your solar power system. Dc evaporative coolers by solar chill.

This air is 30 degrees cooler as it re enters the. A fan pulls hot air into the pads which leaves the other side as cool air. Calculate how much power the solar panels will need to provide to the cooler. 8 000 btu s of cooling is produced for each gallon of water evaporated.

Disconnect the swamp cooler from the main electric supply. As the water evaporates from the wet pads the heat is removed and cool air is the new product. Power in watts is given by multiplying the current in amps by the voltage in volts. I used an existing evaporative cooler since all the important components were already there.

An evaporative cooler s purpose is to cool the air. After a bit of thinking i decide to have a go at a solar powered evaporative cooler and it worked so well i. These units operate as dc swamp coolers or evaporative coolers. We power the solar air conditioner with a tracking solar p.