Evaporative Cooling vs Reverse Cycle Air Conditioning

Title:
Evaporative Cooling vs Reverse Cycle Air Conditioning

Description:
This video summarises the main differences between Evaporative Cooling and Reverse Cycle Air Conditioning.

Evaporative cooling works best in hot and dry climates, and the cooling effect is achieved through evaporation of water across the cooler pads.

Reverse Cycle air conditioning achieves its cooling effect utilising a compressor and the refrigeration process, which also has the ability to heat your home.

With the many differences which include both cost and functionality the preferred choice is a certainly a personal preference, and this short video will help point out some of these differences.

Video Category: Air Conditioning - How To

Starring: Jonathan Dawson
Qualification: Certificate 3 - Refrigeration and Air Conditioning
Experience: 20 + years (commenced in 1999)

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[chrispel]

That was excellent, the only video that clearly explained the answer I was looking for

[bayareabrazil]

Cool information, thanks for posting.

[ponakka]

If i may, i'd add that evaporative system adds humidity indoors and reverse cycle cooling removes humidity from indoor air.

[kimmer]

I wish I could get one of those Aussie units in Northern California. We are pretty much stuck with stamped sheet metal units with aspen wood shaving pads and a belt driven squirrel cage fan. They rust out every 7 years or so and need replacement. Mine is cheap to run but I must pay attention to the psychrometric chart before using the unit. Sometimes we get humidity at less than 10%. The house is sufficiently insulated to stay closed up and cool until late afternoon and the cooler might be utilized for a few hours in the evening.
I pay about $0.39 a kilowatt hour for sometimes unreliable electricity and refrigerant AC units are getting expensive to run. My swamp cooler burns 395 watts on low speed and 675 watts on high speed, entirely acceptable.

[louis-lsbk]

is reverse cycle aircon warm enough at winter? thanks

[PunmasterSTP]

Reverse cycle? More like "Really cool information; thank you!" 👍

[toch]

What are we looking at in terms of installation pricing for each system please?

[Funkteon]

Long story short, evaporative cooling doesn't really work very well in cities and towns north of the Victorian border - How they've ended up being installed all over Queensland is beyond me. What I've found is that Aussies and Americans are the only people who have been duped into buying evaporative cooling in humid environments...