What is that called and whats it do?

Post by **Tony Z** » Tue May 26, 2009 12:49 pm

pocket change....

Post by **Muderick** » Tue May 26, 2009 1:15 pm

Tony Z wrote:pocket change....

Yep!.... for someone leading the lifestyle of the rich and famous!

beetlepower · Post by **beetlepower** » Tue May 26, 2009 1:57 pm

Thats awesome. i would not park my car anywhere with that on.. I stress enough that they will steal the roofrack when its on

Post by **Muderick** » Tue May 26, 2009 2:28 pm

Beetle Power, jy maak my nou paranoid....

The 9 slat BeKoWa rack (from 50's split era) I have on goes for a pretty penny on the samba and I have had offers last year of up to $800 before I even restored it...

Muds..

Some would call this crazyness for sure.... Calooker already gave me fair warning when I chatted to him earlier today.

Post by **Donovan D** » Tue May 26, 2009 5:03 pm

I saw a swamp cooler on ebay for $111, thats not that bad.

Muds you lucky bi

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Post by **Donovan D** » Tue May 26, 2009 6:15 pm

I think this will work great for my Panel

...mmm cardboard might be expensive though...

ZeroAxe · Post by **ZeroAxe** » Tue May 26, 2009 7:13 pm

Tee-hee-hee..... You will be a little limited how far you can go by your extension lead

Chris · Post by **Chris** » Tue May 26, 2009 7:18 pm

http://www.killerdeals.co.za/product_in ... ucts_id=32

Has anyone tried this?

Post by **calooker** » Wed May 27, 2009 9:30 am

Muderic ....... I HATE YOU

Post by **Muderick** » Wed May 27, 2009 10:59 am

yeah yeah, I know... what do you want to change your mind?

Post by **Pine** » Wed May 27, 2009 1:16 pm

Nice find! I'm just wondering - if you add sea water to it, will the inside of your car smell like an early morning Bloubergstrand beach walk?

Post by **Muderick** » Wed May 27, 2009 1:30 pm

Oom Pine, ek dink die sout water sal 'n bietjie rof wees, maar wat van Mocha Java dan ryk dit mos heeldag soos 'n coffee shop! lol!

Nigel A. Skeet · Post by **Nigel A. Skeet** » Thu Jul 09, 2009 3:19 pm

As already mentioned, the illustrated device is a water-evaporative cooler, known colloquially in some parts of the World, as a swamp cooler, which relies upon the flow of relatively dry air, through a water-soaked wick material, which cools the out-flowing air, owing to the latent heat of vaporisation of water, being extracted from the air. These are discussed periodically, on The Samba forum.

During the 1960s, before the widespread adoption, of vapour-compression-cycle, automotive air-conditioning systems, these swamp coolers were popular in the warmer southern states of the USA. Some classic-car enthusiasts there, still fit them to their cars, but they are only properly effective, when the ambient air is of low relative humidity! In many of the oppressively hot, tropical regions of the World, relative humidities typically reach 90% or possibly more, under which conditions, a swamp cooler would be very ineffective, owing to the minimal water evaporation, which could occur.

Newly manufactured swamp coolers, made from UV-stabilised plastic, are available from a company, in Washington state, USA, but they are extremely expensive, costing upward of US$500, if my memory serves me correctly! There are two variants available, the cheapest of which relies solely on ram-air, arising from the vehicle's forward motion, whilst the more expensive version, has a supplementary 12V electric booster fan, whose flying-lead can be plugged into a cigar-lighter socket.

Here's the link to an article you might wish to read, about future developments to aid driver and passenger cooling, which would reduce the need for energy consuming, automotive air-conditioning systems:

'Cool' Car Engineers Test Ventilated Seats And Thermal-Acoustic System To Make A/C Energy-Efficient, Science Daily, 1st September 2006.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/videos/2006 ... ol_car.htm

« Engineers at a national lab have shown that small fans embedded in car seats could help cool passengers down -- saving up to 7 percent of the 30 to 40 gallons of gasoline per year an average driver consumes for powering air conditioning systems. The engineers are also studying ways to power A/C by converting some of the engine's heat into sound waves first. ..... »

Post by **fig** » Thu Jul 09, 2009 6:13 pm

Nigel, you're way over your quota for commas.

I suggest you reduce your comma usage by about 70% to keep abreast with modern punctuation requirements, and to make your wonderful techinical contributions readable.

brianj · Post by **brianj** » Thu Jul 09, 2009 8:42 pm

can the cooler be put on the left hand side of a car? it would be pretty impractical on the drivers side, surely?

Aircooled VW South Africa

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