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Mr Piggy
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I'd go with an actual ac unit over a glorified swamp cooler. I'd imagine you'll be fighting the humidity as well as the heat in south florida?
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SeaBow
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SeaBow
Guest
So that's what a swamp cooler is...
It does say it evaporates the water as air passes through it.
I like slightlystoopid idea, as well. This little ac unit ain't but 2 feet wide, a little dude. I have a crap load of AC duct board (i.e. Johns Manville Fiberglass Board)
I vent my 440cfm fan out by jamming the 6" flex hose at the soffit. Some blows back but I didn't want to degrade the soffit by cutting it out.
It does say it evaporates the water as air passes through it.
I like slightlystoopid idea, as well. This little ac unit ain't but 2 feet wide, a little dude. I have a crap load of AC duct board (i.e. Johns Manville Fiberglass Board)
I vent my 440cfm fan out by jamming the 6" flex hose at the soffit. Some blows back but I didn't want to degrade the soffit by cutting it out.
slightlystoopid
Dragon Med Tester
If you build a plenum box on the back you don't have to worry about an a/c sticking out you just need to cut a hole for the duct and that's easy as shit to hide
slightlystoopid
Dragon Med Tester
That's what I did for awhile you will also need to silicone a hose to the back where there condensation comes out and route that out as well I also put a secondary pan under it just invade it sweated to much which it did I'm in fl as well 
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SeaBow
Guest
How hard would it be to replace a piece of soffit? I have my wife's approval at the moment to continue this for her medication but modifying the structures around here my be the line drawn.
greenthumper
Student of the Dragon
I'm also in Florida, I'm surprised your shed is that cool mine stays over 100 in the day.
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Mr Piggy
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Wait, so your shed isn't actively ventilated? That's why it's 90 in there. You need to have at least a passive intake area for air to come in and an inline fan pulling through a filter and blowing the air out of your shed through some kind of an outlet. Not only do you need to do that to cool it in there but you need fresh air coming in for the plants to breathe. The carbon filter on the extraction fan will keep everything from smelling so the neighbors don't get nosey.
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SeaBow
Guest
It's the block walls and I installed some of that duct board cut to fit between the rafters in the roofing then stapled plastic over it to cut down on fiberglass falling down. I only did the front ceiling because that's where the heat comes from when the sun is COOKING the roof as the sun come around and goes down. Around 3-6pm it gets heated up in there.
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SeaBow
Guest
My thoughts when I started out there that I have a 440 cfm fan sucking in a shitload of air through the soffits. It's 10'X12'X8'. That's 1,000 +/- so I'm circulating the inside air about 2-3 times in 5 minutes. That's not enough? I'm pulling the outside 90' air in to make matters worse.
