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re: frugal ac tips
3 aug 2002
wrote:
>>>> constantly spraying water on the condenser coil to cool it might seem
>>>> like a good idea...
>i find this whole line of reasoning to be a little silly.
you might look at "experimental investigation of performance of
a residential air conditioning system with an evaporatively cooled
condenser," by d.y. goswami, g.d. mathur, and s.m. kulkarni of the
solar energy and energy conversion laboratory, mechanical engineering
department, university of florida, gainesville, fl 32611, pp 206-211,
vol. 115, november, 1993 transactions of the asme:
...system performance was monitored without and with the evaporative
cooler on the condenser. the data show that electric energy savings
of 20% can be achieved by using an evaporatively cooled air condenser.
the energy savings can pay for the cost associated with retrofitting
the condenser in as little as two years.
nick
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