Battery Powered A/C?

[Joalla]

Does anyone have any experience using a battery powered personal A/C in their coop to provide some relief from the heat? If so, do you have a product recommendation? I'm thinking specifically of the little portable fans used for camping that use water or ice to cool the air. It would have to be a small footprint--my coop is only 4x6 if you don't count the run. I'm just having a hard time sorting through stuff online because different sellers will use the same images to advertise a fan under different names, wildly different prices, and wildly variable reviews.

 

[iwltfum]

I think you would have to have a pretty sizable battery bank to run any compressor style A/C unit, but you may look into evaporative cooling if you are in an arid climate. It's basically what you described as a fan blowing across cool water. Also know as a swamp cooler.

 

[Joalla]

I think you would have to have a pretty sizable battery bank to run any compressor style A/C unit, but you may look into evaporative cooling if you are in an arid climate. It's basically what you described as a fan blowing across cool water. Also know as a swamp cooler.

Thanks. Swamp coolers is what I was referring to when I said “fans that use water or ice to cool the air.” I’m just having a hard time determining a legitimate website/seller for the small ones I would need to fit inside the coop. It’s just real frustrating to find something that looks viable and see the same product image slightly photoshopped across 7 sellers on amazon and also on shady 3rd party sites and not be able to tell which one is legitimate. That’s why I was hoping maybe the community might be able to point me to a specific one.

 

[iwltfum]

Gotcha. We had a swamp cooler in the Colorado desert when I lived there for a number of years. I don't ever remember seeing a brand name on it or anything - it was really old. I cancelled my amazon prime account last month after years of having one because of all the Chinese fakes and extra extra long shipping times for literally everything these days so maybe I'm biased, but I would go to a real store to buy an appliance like that. you could easily look up the power consumption of whatever you end up buying to figure out how much battery power you will need and how much charging power you will need. There are calculators on the internets. Even if you aren't planning on charging with solar, you could go to a solar power calculator site and figure out all the info you will need.