Airconditioning at home - refrigerated or evaporative?

[dedja]

what have you got, and why?

Pros and cons of either.

Fire away ...

[A Mum]

viewtopic.php?f=6&t=20381&hilit=air+conditioning

There ya go Dedja...lol.

[dedja]

LOL, and I even posted in that thread ...

[A Mum]

Oh well - there'll be more/new members with more to add anyway.
Doesn't hurt to 'revamp' topics every now and then.

[dedja]

The only reason I started this thread is that since I've turned into the power nazi at home when the solar panels went up earlier this year, I know exactly how much juice my ducted r/c a/c is using ... and it's ugly.

Not worth even contemplating replacing it yet (system is 14 years old) but I was interested in thoughts on ducted evaporative, but I could have just used search a tad better.

[Psyber]

I've never been in a building were evaporative cooling seemed to work, except under very dry conditions, and I need mine more for winter heating.
I also worry about growing Legionella in the evaporator.