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by #john408
Fri May 25, 2012 11:43 am
Forum: Power & Electronics
Topic: Renting a large generator for a village?
Replies: 33
Views: 8291

Re: Renting a large generator for a village?

Looking to collaborate with several camps on selecting a generator vendor. Silicon Village email: John.Lovejoy at earthlink dot net By having 5+ camps buy from same vendor: 1. Better pricing 2. They can afford to have on-site spares...very important - in 9 years I have had 2 generators fail during t...
by #john408
Tue Jun 07, 2005 3:12 pm
Forum: Building & Making Art
Topic: Zip Lines
Replies: 16
Views: 5634

OK-it's BM04 and my wife and I are merrily riding the neighborhood on our Playa Bikes when we stubble across Naked Zip Line day. She looks at me and says "I'm in if you are!" So we give it a go. The only topper to that event was - for her riding in Critical Tits and for me Serving and honoring women...
by #john408
Mon May 16, 2005 4:51 pm
Forum: Keeping Cool
Topic: Please share experience with Swamp Coolers
Replies: 14
Views: 6752

My quest for swamp cooler knowledge continues. As indicated in some of the posts, a swamp cooler is most effective with circulating air. So I believe we would have to have outside air come into the tent, get moisturized throught the swamp cooler, cause a reduction in temperature due to the cooling e...
by #john408
Tue Apr 12, 2005 5:11 pm
Forum: Keeping Cool
Topic: Please share experience with Swamp Coolers
Replies: 14
Views: 6752

One of our constraints is that one of our party had a very difficult time with heat last year and it was not even that hot. But Ok, so we are spoiling ourselves a little ...cause....we can and we want to be fresh for the evening events. Our plan was to have a White wall tent with a silver tarp over ...
by #john408
Tue Apr 12, 2005 11:08 am
Forum: Keeping Cool
Topic: Please share experience with Swamp Coolers
Replies: 14
Views: 6752

Thanks for the replies so far. I have sent e-mails to a couple of companies asking for more info and recommendations. I will share. I was looking of course for my needs but asked for rules of thumb. Our tent is 10x20x ?ave 6.5 feet high = 1300 cubic feet. How large a unit to cool that? Amperage draw...
by #john408
Thu Apr 07, 2005 2:59 pm
Forum: Keeping Cool
Topic: Please share experience with Swamp Coolers
Replies: 14
Views: 6752

Please share experience with Swamp Coolers

This year we will have a 10X20 wall tent and access to a generator. I have purused the many forums and not found much discussion about swamp coolers...if I have missed a discussion thread please point me. Please share experience with using a swamp cooler to keep the temp down. One person noted that ...

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