tonyplane(at)bellsouth.ne
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 Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 9:39 am Post subject: Zodiac 601XL Air Conditione |
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Just a couple of comments on replies to the below message.
1. The unit is not a "swamp" cooler, which works well in hot dry weather, such as Arizona/Nevada in the Summer or in SoCal with a Santa Anna.. It does have an ON/OFF mist switch which would work to exchange the heat of evaporation (like the swamp coolers) but in humid areas such as here in Tennessee the mist setting is worthless and would just mist the melted water into the air via the fan and get things wet.. The heat exchange from the melting ice does though work, but again, it only has enough capacity for about an hour or less of cooling effort. It does have capacity to get you to a higher cooler altitude.
2. It does not appear to add to the humidity in the cockpit. Warm cool air passing over the ice would have (some of) its water condensed by the cold ice. If you believe this not to be the case or did not want additional water available to possibly add to the cockpit humidity when the ice is melted, then you could use self contained "Ice packs" (which when warmed up could only add the water to the air that was removed previously).
I have used it twice now. The unit will definitely not freeze you out of the cockpit, but does make ground and low level ops a little more tolerable, for a while, in very hot weather.
Max Energy consumption of the unit, per the box, is 1.1 Amp.
For $49.00 I believe it to be worth it's price - BUT - just my opinion.
VMC and CAVU to all,
Tony Graziano
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