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Breezair Evaporative Air Conditioning

 

Your home deserves the finest ducted evaporative air conditioning available in North America.

So it makes good sense to choose the revolutionary Breezair Icon - the world’s quietest

and most efficient ducted evaporative air conditioning system.

Install Breezair... it’s the name you can trust.

 

Breezair Evaporative Air Conditioning is the most efficient whole of home cooling

available and delivers clean, healthy, fresh air throughout each room.

BreezeAir Evaporative Cooler

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Aerocool Evaporative Air Cooler

 

The AeroCool Pro Series cooler, with it's Pro-Stat programmable thermostat, will automatically give you the finest in evaporative cooling comfort for the least amount of energy required.

Aerocool Evapoative Cooler

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Evaporative Cooling

The Cold Facts About Evaporative Cooling

Evaporative cooling in not a new idea. In fact, it's as old as nature itself. Did you ever wonder why you feel cooler by an ocean or river? It's because of natural evaporation. A sea breeze feels cooler because hot air is blown over the water causing some of the water to evaporate and absorb heat. The air becomes a refreshing breeze.


 
For many thousands of years, a passive form of man-made evaporative cooling has been used. Thought to have been developed in Persia (Iran), badgirs (Farsi) or barjeels (Arabic) are towers that catch wind and funnel it past water, usually in the form of a pond and water fountain at the base of the tower, into a building. As the hot air passes the water it is cooled by evaporation. Ingeniously, many of these buildings also have courtyards containing plentiful water so that if the wind is not blowing, the natural action of rising hot air evaporates water from the courtyard, vents the cool air through the building and exhausts through the tower.


 
Of course, many other steps to control temperature were taken during construction of ancient buildings, such as having high ceilings and very thick walls. Because that's not easy to achieve with today's construction methods - not to mention today's space and cost constraints - heat transfer is considerably higher and passive cooling methods don't provide the benefit required. Therefore, Breezair has simply taken the natural evaporative cooling process and developed it with state-of-the-art technology to suit today's lifestyle.


 
Each Breezair cooler contains large ChillCel™ or Aspen Fiber filter pads. During the cooling cycle, these pads are kept wet by our non-clog Water Distribution System. Hot air from outside is then drawn through these special pads by a powerful centrifugal fan, and is cooled by the evaporation process. The hotter and dryer it is, the faster the water evaporates and the cooler the air becomes. (Roll your mouse over the links above for a detailed picture and explanation of these amazing exclusive Breezair features)


 
Because evaporative cooling is a simple and completely natural process, its benefits are many.


 
Unlike refrigerated air conditioning, it uses no CFC's that harm the environment. It also uses far less electricity, thereby saving energy, natural resources and as much as 80% on running costs compared with refrigerated air conditioning.


 
And because evaporative cooling continually brings in air from the outside, rather than recirculating the same stale, dry air over and over again, it's much healthier and kinder to sensitive noses, eyes and skin. Evaporative cooling filters the air and provides a complete air change every few minutes, guaranteeing a steady stream of fresh air.

Breezair Product Features

Chillcel™ Cellulose Pad

At Breezair we manufacture our own hgih-density, cross-corrugated ChillCel cellulose pads.  They're matched to your cooler for maximum effect.  Our ChillCel pads provide the highest cooling efficiency of any evaportative medium.

On average, ChillCel pads are around 4" thick, which we believe provides optimum efficiency.  Other brands may claim that thicker pads provide better cooling.  The facts are that only a certain amount of water can evaporate into the air.  Thicker pads cannot make any more water evaporate - unless the pads themselves are quite inefficient to begin with.

Thicker pads may require greater power to draw the air through, a larger pump to move the volume of water required and provide an ideal environmnet for efficiency sapping salt and mineral buildup.  In other words, they probably cost more to buy, more to run and need to be replaced more often.

Ribbon Cut Aspen Pad

Aspen fiber or Wood Wool pads are a natural product that have been used in evaporative coolers for many years - and many people sware by them.  If kept in good condition, particuarly by removing and flushing at least once a year, they provide very good cooling efficiency.  They generally last approximately half as long as cellulose pads.

An advantage of fiber pads over cellulose is that they're usually less expensive.  Therefore, where there's very poor water quality or extremely dirty coonditions, meaning that padas may need to be replaced more often, they're an economical choice. 

Breezair Aspen fiber pads utilise high quality wood fiber cut to optimum strand length and thickness, and are packed in the best density to match your cooler.

Uniform Water Distribution

Why have an excellent pumping system and the most efficient pads availabile if you can't deliver water to them evenly and efficiently?

Introducing the non-clog water distribution system that we invented and is found in every Breezair cooler.  It will not get blocked and keeps the pads evently saturated for higher performance.  No dreaded dry spots - not only do dry spots not cool, they let the hot, dry outside air right into the air stream!

The ideal volume of water is pumped from the sump to the water distribution system where it cascades evenly across the pads, from side-to-side and front-to-back.  And you'll never hear the sound of trickling water either.

Quiet, Lightweight Fan

Our exclusive one-piece aerodynamic fan design delivers the largest volume of cool air with the least wear and tear on the motor.  That means better cooling, quieter operation, longer motor life and lower operating costs.

Most other cooler brands do not have a blower fan.  Why?  Because they're very difficult and expensive to manufacture.  At Breezair, we cut no engineering or manufacturing corners to deliver you the best possible cooler design, including the fan.

Another advantage of a centrifugal blower fan is that it generates higher pressure than conventional axial fans.  That means a Breezair can quietly and effortlessly force air through even the most demanding ductwork designs - it helps get cool air where it's needed most.