[Tfug] Tfug] *Way* OT: Swamp c

[Andrew Ayre]

What you are suggesting could be done with an 8-bit microcontroller with
no operating system. :)

Andy

Joe Blais wrote:
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: tfug-bounces at tfug.org [mailto:tfug-bounces at tfug.org]On Behalf Of
>> Felix Tilley
>>
>>>> 3.  Drain the swamp cooler when mosquito season starts.  And seal it
>>>> off.  West Nile virus isn't funny.  This is usually in August.
>> West Nile not funny, but the idea that mosquitos breed in swamp
>> coolers is
>> very funny.
> 
> 
> 
> What might be an interesting thing for someone to develop would be a cooler
> that doesn't have a sump.
> 
> Directly spray fresh water into the intake of a very thick pad.  The spray
> and internal structure of the pad should be such that water wets the entire
> air flow path.  Then have a processor - a small linux machine - sense the
> cooling, the excess/lack of water -- whatever it needs to sense -- and
> control the flow of air and water.  This would eliminate a bunch of stuff
> that makes coolers less attractive.  -- might even use that in a car, but
> then the EPA disapproved water as a car refridgerant back in the 80's when
> they were forcing the change from freon 12.
> 
> joe
> 
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