Ever heard of evaporative cooling? It's not used very often here in North Carolina but in the Southwestern US, evaporative cooling is the trick. MisterCycle http://mistercycle.net/ sells a mister kit for motorcycles that is designed to cool the rider but I was wondering if anyone has ever tried evaporative cooling (misting) as a way to help cool an air cooled motorcycle engine.
Misting systems are sold for buses and trucks. They work by misting the radiator and/or the air in front of the radiator. It appears that cooling the air in front of the radiator is more effective in dry climates but misting the radiator itself is more effective in humid climates.
Something like this seems like it would be pretty easy to build with an automotive windshield washer pump, some copper tubing, a thermostatic switch and a few odds and ends. And being that I've got a brand new still in the box, Hyundai windshield washer pump I thought I just might give it a try.
Now to be clear, I am talking about using the misting system as sort of a back-up cooling system for those 100 degree days when the regular cooling system can't seem to keep up. I don't know about the rest of you but when it's 100 degrees or thereabout I notice my XS isn't its usual perky self.
Any thoughts, positive, negative or otherwise?
Misting systems are sold for buses and trucks. They work by misting the radiator and/or the air in front of the radiator. It appears that cooling the air in front of the radiator is more effective in dry climates but misting the radiator itself is more effective in humid climates.
Something like this seems like it would be pretty easy to build with an automotive windshield washer pump, some copper tubing, a thermostatic switch and a few odds and ends. And being that I've got a brand new still in the box, Hyundai windshield washer pump I thought I just might give it a try.
Now to be clear, I am talking about using the misting system as sort of a back-up cooling system for those 100 degree days when the regular cooling system can't seem to keep up. I don't know about the rest of you but when it's 100 degrees or thereabout I notice my XS isn't its usual perky self.
Any thoughts, positive, negative or otherwise?