Looking for advice on adding an Evaporative Cooler to home with Hydronic Baseboard Heat

[SheridanL]

What is a barometric vent damper and, a minisplint??

I have a swamp cooler that is vented throughout the home (well, except for 1 room. I wonder if I can somehow vent into that room also? HMM!
This same room has something I can't figure out,...there are 2 big vents (one at the bottom of a wall and, one at the top. I'm sure that 1 is a cold air return but, I have no idea what the other is for.

Is a minisplit something to do with venting into another room?
Maybe this would work for me!

[nelumbo]

Not to divert this too far, but has anyone used a portable swamp cooler before in this area? They look like giant size humidifiers on wheels and seem pretty reasonably priced. I don't like A/C and don't care about making my 2-bedroom apartment colder in the summer, but I need to make it more humid and the little humidifiers that I have are not sufficient.

[Mikieo415]

Originally Posted by kevin_in_Denver

Contributes to Global Cooling. On hot days, incoming air is 80F-100F, but the exhaust air is vented from the house at 75F. Conventional A/C units dump huge amounts of hot air into the neighborhood. That’s roughly three times less waste heat into the environment.

The heat dumped into the outside air from an air conditioning condenser (less the heat from the compressor) is heat that is absorbed by the refrigerant from the inside. That heat came from the outside to begin with. And besides that, the amount of heat sent outside is, how can I put it, a drop in the bucket?

[denverhomeowner]

Thanks everyone for the feedback!

[tfox]

Originally Posted by SheridanL

Is a minisplit something to do with venting into another room?
Maybe this would work for me!

A minisplit is a refrigerated A/C unit that, like a window unit, is designed primarily to cool one room (though sometimes two), and most importantly doesn't require any ductwork. (If you don't already have ductwork, it's very difficult to add it after the fact). Unlike a window unit, a split unit (of any type) consists of an outdoor portion and an indoor portion, connected by a tube, and some wiring. The tube has to get through the exterior wall, usually through a small hole. Its chief advantage is that you can use it even if you don't have ductwork and a forced-air blower in your house.

[Sockeye]

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