Swamp Cooler through Light Hoods? +REP

I'm not saying I'm using my entire swamp cooler to cool these lights...simply running ventilation from the room vent through my hoods....The rest of the air will still flow through my house.

I just held my hand on my vent for an entire minute and there was absolutely zero condensation.....

And if I were to set up a controlled experiment, I don't see how anything could really go wrong...that's the point of a controlled experiment.

I don't see how anything could really go wrong

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[video=youtube;JTdc_pjZADI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTdc_pjZADI[/video]

Thats lighting a piece of wet wood on fire...... think of whats going to happen when that lights up the inside of your walls

P.S: that filament, is basically the same thing inside of a HPS light....

I understand how electrical fires start...so this person making this video was in immediate danger? No, he was running a controlled experiment....which is what I said I was going to do. Not plug it in and see what happens...safety precautions would be put in place....

And the HPS filament being inside of the glass is why this would not happen. If the bulb were to burst, I would be there to flip a switch and kill all of the power....no house burning down there.

I hate to dig up a year old thread as my first post but I wanted to clear up the misconceptions about swamp coolers. I currently run (3) 600W HPS/MH in swamp cooler air cooled reflectors and have been for over a year now. The only condensation I have ever seen was when I had RH issues in my room. (The condensation formed on the metal air ducting.) I live in an extremely dry environment where ambient humidity levels rarely go over 25%. I would however recommend to NEVER EVER EVER EVER use a window mount swamp cooler unit to cool HID's. Whole house units have not once produced water in the air in my hoods. The danger with window units is since there is no ducting a gust of wind may push water out of a heavily water saturated pad and into the blower fan causing a mist of water to be sprayed from the cooler and onto the lights. This is not an issue with whole house or "ducted units" since the water hits the duct and eventually re-evaporates. Also to avoid any issues with temp and humidity changes my fans turn on about 5 minutes before my lights and turn off the fans 15 minutes after to ensure no extra heat is left over.