Polishing a turd (Swamp cooler rebuild)

Awesome job on the swamp cooler. I like your attention to detail & your efforts to do clean, polished & professional work. I always strive to do the same at my place of employment.

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We didn't have refrigerated air conditioning at home when I was growing up, but we did have swamp coolers. We replaced the pads every year, and you just can't beat the smell of fresh Excelsior the first time it gets wet.

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You would think each of those condenser fans would draw air from inside the cabinet, blow it over the condenser, then exhaust directly outside, rather than right back into the cabinet.

I helped my dad work on our swamp cooler when I lived in north Texas back in the mid 80's. It was mounted on the roof of the house, but we had to climb up there to clean the drain pan, the mats (bad calcium build up too) and make sure no wasps nests were in them. I hated doing it back then, but I appreciate the memories now.

Nice video. Up here in northern canada. Never seen a swamp cooler, was really interesting to see. I guess in the warmer climates you can really take advantage of using water to remove latent heat on smaller equipment. Looks like a mini cooling tower!

Thanks for the lesson again. I wish your work ethics and integrity could be instilled in more technicians. I have hope for this generation of young technicians.....if they could just put down their phones and do the job! Thanks again

RR, YUM ! Pro tip, freeze the turds they polish better 🤓

Please keep posting! Your videos are most helpful!

Awe your in my neck of the woods. Got to love those mountains. Good video

Wow, are those swamp coolers a common thing? I’m definitely not a fridgie, but that looks like a real quarter arsed way to cool a rack. I wonder if using a box air con or something would do any better. Here in Australia, you are box (or split!) air cons absolutely *everywhere*. If it’s railway track electronics, a telephone exchange, a cell tower, microwave relay. whatever it is, it’ll have some form of air con tacked onto the side of it. If it is an enclosed box with a lot of heat inside it, it’ll have an air con. Inside datacenters is a very different thing, though. It’s actually pretty damn ingenious as to how they work. You have a massive chiller on the roof, and usually water as the coolant. In the datacenter itself, you have a hot and cold aisle. The cold aisle is what all of the servers are pulling air from, and the hot aisle is what they’re all exhausting into, because in servers. All fans point in only one direction, from front to back. This also means that all of the cables and crap that obstruct airflow, are in the hot aisle anyway and are of no real consequence. I’m sure you’ve done jobs on these systems before, but they’re basically hotel air conditioning on steroids.

Looks to me like an incoming water filter would be a good suggestion to slow the pads on the cooler turning into that calcium plating you removed....pads would last longer & it would make the PM faster at the very least...

Great Job looks brand new😃✔

wow, What a great channel or technician I found!

I put the whole freezer inside my swamp cooler,It worked very well and now I'm freezing to death inside my home

I can see a possible reason for the bowed side panels and high fan motor amps, you have about 27 sq feet of inlet pad, and about 2 sq feet (I'm metric so cut me some slack if my conversion is wrong) of exhaust grill, the blower fan is running against a high head of air, the cooler would perform much better with some more exhaust air flow vents, this would lower the humidity in your rack as well . Swampies are big business in parts of Australia with our high temps and very low humidity. For domestic installs they try for roughly similar sq. ft of air exhaust openings and cooling media pad size..

As far as i know, swamp coolers blow out tons of humidity. Does all that humid air make any damage to the condensing units?

Awesome job brother

Woaw. I never seen a swamp cooler b4. I watch the both videos of when u diagnose the bad compressor and tbis one because of the swamp cooler. I live in Baltimore and it gets hot over here but not where we need to help the the rejected heat get out of the racks. But very cool solution. Great job