Norumbega, Everett Hale, Two-Stage Evaporative Cooling

[dr_scott]

So I stumbled upon this reminder of Norumbega, now a little district around the shore of the Charles in Watertown and Newton, later a park and an amusement park, now what's left being a canoe rental facility

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[sunbeam_bears]

Howdy, my mom grew up on Hale St in Beverly MA., so named for the famous one. There is also a Hale House in Beverly Farms MA., and might have been a summer home. I don't know, I didn't look it up.
I recently spent some time on the roof of our house, closing up the evap cooler we have. It sits on the breezeway roof, and connected to the side of the house via a large vent. While reading your post, I realized we may be able to leave our evap on when we leave the house, as we always close up everything for security sake. Now I am thinking the evap vent is about the same size as our fireplace flue/damper etc. Perhaps we could open the damper in summer, and let the evap run while we are not at home.
When we use the evap, we have to monitor the weather for efficiency. The unit we have has gotten the house temp down to the upper 60's. And that's with a clogged/need to replace wet pad. Personally I would not use an evap for a garage. I have a classic car, and humidity promotes rust.

[dr_scott]

..and there's the uncle, Nathan Hale, even more famous.

A two-stager doesn't raise the humidity so much, but one could use a humidistat to keep it from rising beyond a certain point.

A fireplace isn't that great an outlet. For untended use, you might want to add one or two of these, barometric dampers that open under pressure and let air escape into the attic: http://www.dialmfg.com/updux.html