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Originally Posted by ShadeTreeMech
is there such a system that is a combination evaporative cooler and heat exchanger? It's bloody humid in Arkansas so evap coolers would make it worse, but if a heat exchanger was used to bring the cool into the house, it would be like a regular ac unit.
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A friend of mine is working on a hybrid A/C that uses evaporative cooling to cool the condenser of a normal A/C. The prototype gets a SEER rating in the low 30s. It uses distilled water as the refrigerant. Main problem is that the "turbocompressor" (basically a modified turbocharger driven by a switched reluctance motor) is not a mass produced part.
I think I'll try to build my own hybrid A/C in the future, but with a conventional refrigeration loop using ES-22a.