Portable Air Cooler
Portable Air Cooler - Reduce Air by 10 to 15 degrees F! |
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What is the Difference between an AIR COOLER and a AIR CONDITIONER? |
Free Standing Portable Ventless and Windowless Air Coolers (or swamp cooler or evaporative cooler or spot cooler) are basically a fan device using tap water and ice to cool the air by as much as 15 °F. (If you wet your arm and then blow air on it your skin surface feels cooler. That's evaporative cooling.) Air Coolers (or swamp cooler or evaporative cooler) are popular because they are relatively inexpensive compared to portable air conditioners, do not require venting of any heat like portable air conditioners do, use only 60 watts of electricity and are easily maintained by the average person. Air Coolers use water and ice to help cool an area, they provide a cool stream of air that is lowered by 10 °F to 15 °F then room air temperature but Air Coolers DO NOT lower the ambient temperature of a room as an air conditioner would. Our largest market for air coolers are people who live in DRY southern states and desert states who use air coolers to get a little moisture in the air as well and people who simply can not use a portable air conditioner because of venting restrictions! Air coolers DO NOT REQUIRE WINDOW VENTING! Evaporative air coolers can work wonderfully well, provided the outside air they are drawing in is 50% or less in humidity. The dryer the input air the better. As the hot humidity increases, however, the ability for them to cool the air effectively decreases. Simply put, air coolers were not designed to work in high humidity conditions.
Portable Air Conditioners are in many ways like a refrigerator. They use Freon which is easily convert from a gas to a liquid and back again. Freon is used to transfer heat from the air inside of a home to the outside air (through a vent ducted to a window). The compressor compresses cool Freon gas, causing it to become hot, high-pressure Freon gas. Then, this hot gas runs through a set of coils so it can dissipate its heat which is vented out a window or opening in a wall via a supplied vent duct and it condenses into a liquid. The Freon liquid runs through a expansion valve, and in the process it evaporates to become cold, low-pressure Freon gas. This cold gas runs through a set of coils that allow the gas to absorb heat and cool down the air which is then blown out of the unit. Portable air conditioners ALSO dehumidify the air by drawing moisture out of the air lowering the humidity of the air slightly. ALL PORTABLE AIR CONDITIONERS REQUIRE A WINDOW OR WALL VENT to vent out the heat generated by the poratable air conditioner! |
Windowless Portable Air Coolers (or swamp cooler or evaporative cooler) |
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