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Hey MC, which are you going to do next? Write a manual on your system for those of us who would like do something similiar or are you going to into the turnkey AP business for the rich folks down in LV? (Compete with Al Gore on the "carbon footprint buy back" business.)

Kevin

next im gonna finish the system and make sure it works, then im gonna build another system, and another.... there is alot of $$$$$$ in las vegas, and alomst nobody growing fresh produce. i think if someone grew fresh herbs for all them fancy places on the strip they may do very well.

posting on the forum is prolly the closest ill ever get to writing a manual. almost everything im doing came from ideas off this forum. anything with the word Al Gore connected to it would not be very popular around here. although a new park has been built in las vegas to promote permaculture. http://www.springspreserve.org/html/ so dunno. i try and get everybody i know to grow somthing. its a start.

i have a central ac unit, but i use a cooler like this most of the time. ac cost about $350 a month to cool my hous in the summer. swamp cooler cost about $80 a month. i only us ac when the humidity gets above 5%, which is not very often.

been running the pump for a few hours now, having a problen with the plastic bowl on top. its to flimsy. i think a 6" abs cap will work better.

It sort of looked like a plastic food storage container, do you think if you went to a heavier gauge poly, like one of the ones for general storage, it might work? (Still cheap enough, and if it doesn't work your not out much $.)

I figured that was what you meant by "coolers". Most people who live in high humidity areas aren't familiar with the "swamper" or evaporative cooler. I am sure many of the Aussies use them where that humidity is generally low. All they do in my area is make you wetter, and eventually feel hotter, here (our humidity levels are usually always in the double digits.)

Kevin

dues, are we using the same humidity scale?

5% dry as................well, very dry!

The evaporative cooling would work well above 5% as well, wouldn't it?

hell they work above 55% that why i thikn we're on different pages with the humidity

We had 96% humidity the day before yesterday.. Although they call it relative humidity here, so yeah, that must be a different scale.

More info: Wikipedia

absolute humidity is measures in grams water per KG air . The only % scale i know of is the relative humidity scale.........interesting, cant wait for our USA friends to jump on, now i'm curious AS!

We use relative humidity. Today's forecast is 75F (24C) and 87% humidity. Not bad, cooler but a touch muggy.

http://www.accuweather.com/forecast-cur ... code=19103

We can get days that are 100% humidity and temperatures in the 90's F (32C+). Those are miserable.

so whats this 5% humidity?

5% humidity at 85F would give you a wet bulb of 50f thats some nice cooling

todays weather, its a muggy 6% humidity. total rainfall since january, 0.63"


100 °F / 38 °C
Clear
Humidity: 6%
Dew Point: 22 °F / -6 °C
Wind: 20 mph / 32 km/h / 8.7 m/s from the SSW
Wind Gust: 32 mph / 52 km/h / 14.4 m/s
Pressure: 29.68 in / 1005 hPa (Falling)
Visibility: 10.0 miles / 16.1 kilometers
UV: 13 out of 16
Clouds: Clear -
(Above Ground Level)

wow, if the humidity here gets below 20% (I think) they start declaring extreme fire danger, not "just get on with every day living"