everettdavis wrote:I can see that notion in the naming convention but it still seems to be a bit of an oxymoron of sorts for me as creating a swamp like atmosphere does not make me envision a cooler environment. LOL
Do you have any temperature or humidistats on yours to keep humidity below a certain level in the shop.
We spend a good bit of time drying out our wood and the appeal of wooden tool boxes for machinists was that the wood would absorb the moisture so their tools wouldn't rust. If the tool boxes absorbed humidity, so would my stock I would think. It may be insignificant, I just don't have experience with it yet.
Any concerns with the wood absorbing excessive moisture from humidity coming from the evaporative coolers in your shop?
Any advice on what kind of evaporative cooler to get? They offer metal ones, galvanized, even fiberglass ones that will not corrode as bad with the minerals in the water, or rust out.
Do you have a preference or recommend one over the other?
Evaporative coolers are hard to understand by people who have never used them. They work, and work very well, by evaporating water to cool the air (won't get into the physics as not important), but because of that evaporation, you introduce moisture content into the air, but also remember, that the air (should be all of the air being forced into the building) is exhausted back outside. So instead of "cooling" the air in the building, you cool outside air and then "exchange" that cooled air with the air in the building. We usually start with 10 to 30 percent humidity during our hot months, you add about another 10 percent using a swamp cooler, so your air is somewhere around 20 to 40 percent humidity as it moves from the swamp box to back outside (I have had wildlife hanging around the window that the cool air exits from LOL). So, yes it adds humidity, but the humidity is usually not as much as most of the rest of the country. Using a dehumidifier while the swamp box is running is pointless since you are actually adding moisture at the rate of 3000 to 5000 cubic feet per min.
These units have become very popular out here over the last few years:
http://www.lowes.com/pd/MasterCool-2-00 ... m/50342060
They are relative inexpensive, direct fan (no squirrel cage, single pad for easier maint. etc.
They will work in your part of the country, just not as efficiently as they do here. But remember one huge benefit they have ..... they are EXCHANGING all of the air in the building every few mins. so as saw dust is being created, it is pushed out ....
