In this video I take a look at my evaSMART after owning it for quite a while! One major thing I forgot to mention is that Evapolar’s are not intended to cool entire rooms, just you! My evaSMART unboxing: • Evapolar Unboxing
It's an interesting product! Here in the Southern Arizona desert we have things called evaporative coolers (but we all call them swamp coolers because they fill the house with very humid air) which I'd guess is like this product on steroids. They're just a big metal box with a large fan and blower motor, cardboard or hay pads, a tray full of water, a small water pump, and a few pipes to move the water up to the top and around the pads. All it does is fill the tray with water, pump that water up top onto the cardboard or hay pads to soak them, suck in very dry desert air through the pads which evaporates the water and cools the air, and then blows the air into the house to cool the entire house down. When water changes phase from liquid to gas, it needs extra energy. That extra phase-change energy is taken from the air, which means the air cools down. :) They work fantastically in the dry summer heat and give about 20 or 25 degrees F of temp drop at the vent. They stop working during monsoon season though because our air becomes incredibly humid and the pads don't evaporate water readily anymore which fails to cool the air. One thing I was wondering was about the type of water they wanted you to use in the tank. IDK if they specify tap water or distilled water or other, but here our water is hard as a rock. 😆 Soooooo many minerals. I'd probably use distilled water from Walmart or filtered drinking water from a faucet setup here to save the internals from damage. Living here is certainly a big...compromise. 🙃 Winter is great though.
That’s interesting! I remember an elderly woman on our street mentioning that they have, and love their swamp cooler. For us though we just have a standard central ac unit. I haven’t seen anything from Evapolar about what type of water to use. We are on well water which is VERY mineraly (I think I just made a new word) and so far I’ve had no issues. There is some deposits in the bottom of the tank, and I’m not really worried about the internals as they use no pump, and your supposed to replace the cartridge every once and a while.
