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Originally Posted by DonR
Someone, either Plow & Hearth or Gardner's is selling a device that you attach to your garden hose that mists your condensor when ever the motor kicks on. Due to the evaporation it passes cooler air over the coils & shorten the time the condensor runs. I don't think it would reduce the temp inside unless it is very hot. It works better the lower the humidity (water evaporates better).
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I don't doubt that someone sells such a device, just like someone sells those blasted tornado wallet lighteners for your car
however once the refrigerant has changed state it's done its job, cooling it more won't improve its efficiency. if more btu's were being exchanged, the vent temperature would have been cooler.
my only motivation for housing the a/c condenser is to keep the absorbed radiant heat from the sun from preventing condensation inside the condenser (as opposed to the ambient temperature of the air in the shade which wouldn't get half as hot)