greybeard
Well-known member
Looking for something to use on a patio to drop airtemp a few degrees for my wife on all these 100+ deg afternoons. Right now, using a high velocity fan but just blows 101F air around. Not really much good unless you're sweating a lot. I know they don't work well in high humidity but I'm in Central Texas. Just want a small portable one on rollers to blow directly on people.
I had an uncle/aunt in Dallas when I was young that had them in their windows and they worked somewhat it seemed but the lady at the local Ace Hardware said ya had to put cold water in them for them to work. I had a friend back in East Texas that had a very large one they used under a canopy when they had BBQs and other gatherings and it cooled pretty good with just regular water and I understood all these years, that they just worked on the principle of latent heat of evaporation and cooled because some of the water evaporated as the air was blown across the wet media. Am I mistaken? Will one work with just tap water?
Something along this line:
My other option is to spend a couple hundred more for a portable real AC that vents the hot air out a hose on the back. It's about the same size but is a lot heavier and uses more electricity. Usually stick the hose to vent out a window. I have used one once before and worked well to cool a bedroom when our central unit crapped out at the old place...dunno how well it would work on a patio.
Won't be cooling the whole place, just provide her with some cool air in her patio zero gravity chair. (yes, sometimes, she's hi maintenance but I'm too old to go lookin for another one)
To use here:
I had an uncle/aunt in Dallas when I was young that had them in their windows and they worked somewhat it seemed but the lady at the local Ace Hardware said ya had to put cold water in them for them to work. I had a friend back in East Texas that had a very large one they used under a canopy when they had BBQs and other gatherings and it cooled pretty good with just regular water and I understood all these years, that they just worked on the principle of latent heat of evaporation and cooled because some of the water evaporated as the air was blown across the wet media. Am I mistaken? Will one work with just tap water?
Something along this line:
My other option is to spend a couple hundred more for a portable real AC that vents the hot air out a hose on the back. It's about the same size but is a lot heavier and uses more electricity. Usually stick the hose to vent out a window. I have used one once before and worked well to cool a bedroom when our central unit crapped out at the old place...dunno how well it would work on a patio.
Won't be cooling the whole place, just provide her with some cool air in her patio zero gravity chair. (yes, sometimes, she's hi maintenance but I'm too old to go lookin for another one)
To use here: