Solar Panel Swamp Cooler Burning Man

This is a great piece of equipment have when you want to be able to cool things down while you are camping or at burningman like i will be.

Solar panel swamp cooler burning man.

In the first option you essentially have to rebuild the cooler. A 30 watt solar panel provides enough power to keep the swamp cooler going while giving enough juice to energize decorative led interior lights along with some backup batteries for phones and cameras. Solar powered swamp cooler. The fan and solar panel is connected to the battery in a parallel configuration.

The personal burning man swamp cooler when i. The video demonstrates using a 15w solar panel to run the fan and we have to admit that the cooler seems to be an excellent low cost build. Of course this isn t just useful for burning man and cou. This is a rendition of figjam s solar swamp cooler.

Arobodude s diy burning man evaporative ac swamp cooler. Can somebody recommend a solar panel i can run directly to the swamp cooler so that it kicks on immediately when the sun comes out. Our cooler chest will sit on top of the unit and feed melt water to it throughout the day. Staying up late and sleeping in seems like the way to roll and sleeping sweating in a hot tent is absolutely no fun.

I use a swamp cooler with a solar panel to cool my box trailer where i sleep on playa. The second option is to convert the dc electricity from the solar panel to 115 volt ac by using an inverter. Heading to burning man this week and built a diy swamp cooler for the tent. Each option has advantages and disadvantages.

The solar panel won t do much good stuck inside the tent. It works pretty well and is great for keeping you cool when you are in the hot hot heat. The 30 watt solar panel should provide plenty of power for the swamp cooler led interior and decorative lighting as well as charge batteries for cameras and phones. This way you don t have to replace anything inside the swamp cooler.

You just plug the cooler straight into the the inverter. This is my 13th burning man video and. Check the diagram to see how everything wires together. Unfortunately i m not great with electronics so i m having some trouble figuring this out on my own.

I re purposed an old a c computer load center for the solar system.