Evap cooler + AC unit?

I'm trying to get my head around something.

I can't work out if the evap cooler will actually reduce the temperature in my room in my situation.

I have 5000w in a room and I'm getting a 36000 BTU AC to make sure I have enough. It will be a sealed room I'm concerned 36000 will not be enough as in summer the room is like a greenhouse.

My normal humidity in this room is around 20% -30% and I assume it will be dryer with an AC going.

Would increasing my humidity to 50-60% and room temp 30c with Co2 by using an evap cooler take some of the strain off my AC units?

Or will they not work together the way I am thinking?

George2324 said:

I'm trying to get my head around something.

I can't work out if the evap cooler will actually reduce the temperature in my room in my situation.

I have 5000w in a room and I'm getting a 36000 BTU AC to make sure I have enough. It will be a sealed room I'm concerned 36000 will not be enough as in summer the room is like a greenhouse.

My normal humidity in this room is around 20% -30% and I assume it will be dryer with an AC going.

Would increasing my humidity to 50-60% and room temp 30c with Co2 by using an evap cooler take some of the strain off my AC units?

Or will they not work together the way I am thinking?

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3tons of ac for 5000w should be plenty. The most I ever figure is 6k btu of ac per 1000w of bare bulb in sealed rooms. In a room with insulated walls it will work all day long even during hot norcal summers.

Dumping more moisture(evap cooler) in a sealed growroom isn’t really a good idea. When the room is full of foliage, you’ll usually be trying to get rid of humdity not add more sometimes a properly sized ac will take care of the humidity when lights on, but you’ll need a dehumidifier for lights out.

I'll stick to the AC units only then however,
In total in the room I have 7200w of cob leds. It's in a confined space due to being a vertical setup.

In total including water pumps its more like 8000w then the AC units use 3000w so that's a total of 11000w in the room x 3.8 = 41800 BTU PLUS the heat from the sun on the roof of the room above it like an oven.

Also the heat from a 4 burner Co2 burner
Am I doing the math wrong here?