BoyntonStu wrote:

The average house unit in Florida is several tins ad it produces about
1 gallon of cool condensed water per day HMMM?

Tins? :-)

Some details please on the swamp cooler design.

Goswami used an Acme Kool Cell greenhouse evaporative cooler kit. Swamp
Thing is another brand. Stuppy Greenhouse Manufacturing sells a 10' length
of Swamp Thing pads and gutters and overhead sprinklers for $181.

Goswami cut one down to make something like a 2.5' cube surrounding
an outdoor condensing unit. You also need something like Stuppy's $268
"Plumbing completion package" which has a float valve and an adjustable
bleedoff valve (nominally 1%) to avoid mineral buildup. The idea is
to surround the condensing coil with a swamp cooler box.

Would this idea work?

Sink a 55 gallon drum into the 70* ground to cool the water and to hide it.

The ground won't help much in cooling it.

Pipe all condensate into the drum.

Sounds good.

Swamp cooler surrounding the condenser.

You might just trickle the mineral-free condensate and rainwater
over the coil, with no swamp cooler.

The utilities last month were almost $700.

jim

The savings won,t equal the added bother.

.... 0.2x700 = $140 per month? :-)

Nick