Any knowledge of the Luma Comfort EC220W Commercial Evaporative Cooler

[silken]

Does anyone know anything about this evaporative cooler and how good or bad it is? I can't find too many reviews online so I thought maybe someone on here will have seen one or used one. I am wanting to cool and add humidity to the greenhouse in the summer. Thanks.

[WhiteRabbit]

good luck!

[msaar]

This is a roll-around portable cooler, and not appropriate for permanent installation. If your thought is to just roll it into the greenhouse, you will have one of two problems. 1) if you use it in addition to an exhaust fan, the warm dry air you bring into the greenhouse will displace it and negate the cooling. 2) if you use it instead of an exhaust fan, the humidity in the greenhouse will increase, eventually defeating the cooling effect.
The way you should use an evaporative cooler is instead of an exhaust fan, drawing (relatively) dry air from outside, which will be cooled by evaporation and exhausted through a relief opening (hopefully high in the GH). I have no idea about maximum temperatures or temperatures in Saskatchewan, but any GH exhaust system should be designed for a minimum of one air change per minute (fan cfm = GH volume in cf.)

[silken]

Thanks for the thoughts msaar. I do intend to mount it on a shelf at one end of a 30 x 10 ft attached growing area . It's a bit of an unusual situation where I don't have anywhere that I can actually cut a hole in the wall and install a swamp cooler in that opening so it can take air from outside. The structure is attached to our house and garage on one long and one short side. The rest is concrete pony wall and triple glazed glass windows that do slide open. The end where the swamp cooler will go has an air intake from the outside that is sucked in using a squirrel cage fan and the air source is pipes 4 ft underground and about 50 ft long thru our backyard. This brings in significantly cooler air than regular outside air and then an exhaust fan (large squirrel cage fan) at the opposite end at the highest point blows out warm air. Our climate in the summer is typically warm and dry and I need more humidity and cooler air in there mostly for my Masdies and Milts. I think the Catt's Paphs, Phals and Dens etc. are quite happy as we do run a fogger now which increases humidity but more so at night when the temps drop. I had a heck of a time finding a cooler that I can have shipped to Canada and fits in with some of my requirements. Hard to believe but I could not find one of any kind in Canada and many places in the U.S. won't ship here.

So I am hoping it will work-it does have a connection to a garden hose so it can run indefinitely.

I would love to hear from anyone who has seen one or knows of them to know how reliable or sturdy they are. They all have a fairly simple means of operating, but I could only find one review which was quite positive.