For my garage.

[93STLTH]

Now that I'm living in South Florida, where it's already 85 everyday with humidity, I decided this was a necessity...

http://images.costco.com/image/media/500-729562-847__1.jpg

It's designed to exhaust through a window, but I'm gonna hook the exhaust to a vent hole that's already in my garage. I'll only use it when I want to work on the car, so it'll only run a few times a month during the summer.
I'll take some pics once it's installed.

[Alan92RTTT]

I have heard that that kind of AC is not very efficient.

[93STLTH]

Well, it won't need to run all the time, I just need to cool off the garage enough to where I can work on the car without sweating my tail off. I don't expect it to cool off the garage and make it as comfortable as inside my house, but it's got to better than running a bunch of fans in there.

[HLxDrummer]

Depends on large your garage is and how well insulated it is.

We bought one while our AC in the house was broken and just trying to cool one room on the first floor is struggled to get below high 70's and I live in the NE. Hope it works well for you, though!

[Hans@GZP]

We use one to cool off our office when it gets super hot out. It exhausts into our warehouse section of the garage. No insulation in this room with 1 exterior wall. It doesn't do a bad job at keeping it cool (10 x 20' room). Just try to run a drain tube on it so you don't have to keep emptying out the water bucket in the unit.

[dbest671]

South Florida during the summer = 95+ w/ 100% humidity... it sucks but you eventually get used to it. Hell, I didn't know what humidity was until I moved away from Cape Coral. I never understood why people thought it was "humid", I just thought that was normal :lol:

If you have a shitty garage door, that little unit won't do anything for the summer.

[93STLTH]

Got it hooked up and doing a test run right now. In about 15 min, it's lowered the temp from 82 to 78.

[daisy]

I had one of those in Hawaii and it worked pretty well, should at least make the temperature more bearable.

[Roybatty]

Got one also. Happy with it. Never thought to use it in garage. :rolleyes:

Revel in your time

[FeaRpb]

Lol right now where I am, it is 80* and 88% humidity.

Where did my "winter" of cold fronts go...

[Alex3000gt]

Got it hooked up and doing a test run right now. In about 15 min, it's lowered the temp from 82 to 78.

More importantly it likely reduced the humidity a significant amount. Evaporative heat transfer is your friend! Any word on % humidity drop?

[93STLTH]

More importantly it likely reduced the humidity a significant amount. Evaporative heat transfer is your friend! Any word on % humidity drop?

I don't have any way of measuring the humidity, but I can definitely feel a difference in how the garage feels after running the unit for about an hour. Got it running right now and I'm gonna swap out my rear hubs in a little while for it's first test in combat conditions.

[sergechronos]

I probably should get something like that. Temps here have only been around 87 or so, but the shop where I'm working (which has an open door that half my car is in at the moment) has been seeing temps of over 100 degrees while Im out there working. Not sure how well it'd work on an open space like that. May just have to set up a bunch of box fans.

[Blackmount]

We had a very similar unit in my friend matts garage. Between that, leaving the house door open, and a fan on. It stayed pretty cool.

His garage is well insulated tho which can make or break it....... this was during peak time last year when temps in TN were breaking 100*

if you focus well on the work, after you get going you'll forget about the heat...I usually did....

[familyMAN]

Cold beer works too....just sayin';)

[93STLTH]

Well, I have to say I'm happy with the results. I still broke a sweat, but it wasn't the constant, sweat in your eyes kind of sweat that is normal around here. I opened the garage door after I was done, and BAM! got hit with the humidity right away, so it was doing a good job of keeping the humidity down in the garage. If anyone's interested, I bought this at Costco for $349, well worth it, I think.
Oh, and the hub swap was a piece of cake. Hardest part was getting the dust caps off. Plus I got to use my 3/4" socket set to get that spindle nut off.

[J-Groove]

That is awesome.

I'm looking into something similar.

Glad to hear it is working out.

-John

[jbuhrman]

I have a REZNOR unit in my garage, works wonders so far. Keeps the garage right around 68* no matter what the outside temp which is way better than in FL or CA when it was cold would just have to bundle up or hot sweat it out.....

[nodoze]

Cold beer works too....just sayin';)

i have resigned to not drinking while working because after a few i miss place bolts etc. haha , that being said usually july is a no work in the garage months here unless im really ambitious humidity is horrid in iowa.