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Personal bleg: Unbearably warm office building (evaporative coolers on the east coast?)
dangus

Posted on 09/13/2011 8:24:53 AM PDT by dangus

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1 posted on 09/13/2011 8:24:55 AM PDT by dangus
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To: dangus

What’s a BLEG?!!


2 posted on 09/13/2011 8:27:10 AM PDT by momtothree
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I’d move.

I’m not joking and I am not making light of this. Everything else is in the vein of “bailing wire and chewing gum solution.”

You need to move.


3 posted on 09/13/2011 8:27:28 AM PDT by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
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Do you know what the wet and dry bulb temperatures are?


4 posted on 09/13/2011 8:27:27 AM PDT by Boiler Plate ("Why be difficult, when with just a little more work, you can be impossible" Mom)
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To: momtothree

Blog beg. IWO, using a blog to ask for something, commonly information.


5 posted on 09/13/2011 8:28:19 AM PDT by dangus
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To: momtothree

To bleg is to write a blog entry or comment for the sole purpose of asking for something.


6 posted on 09/13/2011 8:28:49 AM PDT by al baby (Is that old windbag still on the air ?)
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To: momtothree
What’s a BLEG?!!

It's personal.

7 posted on 09/13/2011 8:30:06 AM PDT by real saxophonist (The fact that you play tuba doesn't make you any less lethal. -USMC bandsman in Iraq)
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Thanks! I seriously didn’t know the answer. Now I do...


8 posted on 09/13/2011 8:30:43 AM PDT by momtothree
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I would think that if it’s a closed system that the air would saturate with moisture and evaporation would stop. It would also make the standard air conditioner run harder. Your best bet is a fan. You sweat, the fan evaporates the sweat, you get cooler.

Drink ice water and (if you admire the coworkers) get the company to institute thong Friday.


9 posted on 09/13/2011 8:31:21 AM PDT by Gen.Blather
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To: cuban leaf

Not my call to make, except for leaving my job. And I otherwise like my job a lot.


10 posted on 09/13/2011 8:31:37 AM PDT by dangus
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To: real saxophonist

All I know is that it is raining in Las Vegas now (rare) and it is weird to feel humidity inside and out.


12 posted on 09/13/2011 8:32:16 AM PDT by cicero2k
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To: Boiler Plate

Dry bulb temperature can reach the 80s. I’m presuming wet-bulb temperatures would be much lower because it’s so dry... but I’ve never measured them.


13 posted on 09/13/2011 8:33:39 AM PDT by dangus
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Either way you need outside air. Any AC needs to eject heat somewhere and the evap needs new air supply or it will be 90% humidity in no time.


14 posted on 09/13/2011 8:34:08 AM PDT by MileHi ( "It's coming down to patriots vs the politicians." - ovrtaxt)
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Hey, I live in the south. People used to work in the offices here in full suits and NO air conditioning. So, if you like your job...


15 posted on 09/13/2011 8:35:08 AM PDT by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
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You state that your air is dry; this *may* be because you are getting warmed up Air Conditioned air. AC units tend to dry out air as part of the cooling cycle (cold air holds less water than hot air, so it condenses).

Will a portable swamp cooler work? Short term - absolutely. Expect about a 15 degree drop, measuring incoming air to outgoing air.

Will it keep on working? That depends upon the airflow. If you have a steady stream of dry air coming in, and can vent the moist air out - you may have a great solution.

However - if the moist air cannot be vented out, and/or the dry air coming in is not meeting the output of your swamp cooler - you will wind up with a humid heat, which is even more miserable than what you currently have. In extreme cases, you can get moisture condensing on walls and windows - and add mold to your problems.


16 posted on 09/13/2011 8:36:22 AM PDT by Hodar ( Who needs laws; when this FEELS so right?)
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To: MileHi

I’m presuming the moisture could dissipate downwards; the reason its so hot is that the air rises from the lower floors, where it can be like a meat locker.


17 posted on 09/13/2011 8:36:22 AM PDT by dangus
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18 posted on 09/13/2011 8:40:55 AM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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Is there a pump in the cooler to make the water circulate?


19 posted on 09/13/2011 8:43:04 AM PDT by linear (Permanance is indeed an illusion but no particular change is inevitable.)
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To: dangus

Evidently the air conditioning is doing the best it can since you say the air is very dry but still too warm.Humid 80+ would be even more uncomfortable than dry 80+ temperatures.Some fans for air movement and cool drinks are probably the easiest short-term solution.

Portable air conditions only add to the overall enviroment’s heat if they can’t exhaust the heat outside.

Twice I have had portable units rented by an employer because the main air conditioning was broken;and I thought those portables worthless:made a lot of noise and darn little comfort.WE ended up with a pedestal fan and drinking lots of ice-cooled water until the permanent unit was replaced.

Do you have static electricity problems? That could be very bad for the servers.Seriously.And could be a lever to have building management seek solutions.

I know of past workplaces where the air conditioning was only installed after computerization! Before computers the workers just had to sweat.


20 posted on 09/13/2011 8:43:37 AM PDT by hoosierham (Waddaya mean Freedom isn't free ?;will you take a credit card?)
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