Happy to share out my shopping list or answer questions. Pretty proud it actually worked on the first try. Can't wait to take it camping and try it out!
I too, am building a FIGJAM swamp cooler for the burn this year. how are you powering yours? I'm going just 12v deep cycle for the week. no solar.
Playa dust. Dust Storms and wind covering the panels lowering efficiency. That's one more item to worry about. Given that the temp spike is in the noon area, we probably wont NEED it at all times. The pump/fan combo draws little power, a 100+ aH deep cycle should be good for the 8 days.
I will be powering it with a battery of some kind. We have a solar panel just need to standardize on power sources for the camp. Open to battery suggestions! Right now I just have a DC wall outlet I'm using. I used a combination of Figjams guide and this one: http://graywolfsurvival.com/2365/how-to-make-a-5-gallon-bucket-air-conditioner/. He recommended against solar, and I think even Figjam wasn't only solar, he had battery backup.
Dry running is entirely permissible and highly advised. I was asked to go to Burning Man 1, 2, 3 and 4. By the time it was a thing I was so sick to death of PLUR ravers that there was no f'n way I'd go. I hear it's great fun. Enjoy it doubly for me.
There's definitely constant tension between the ravers whose burn is about EDM and who complain about an overload of "yoga and TED talks" on the schedule and the ... well, the people I like more than ravers, who go to yoga and TED talks. EDIT: I should clarify that this tension is during the rest of the year, because burners like to complain! Not so much tension in Black Rock City.
And I'm back after a brief Google adventure learning what PLUR is. This is my first burn and we are apparently near the sound camps, so I'm hoping there won't be raver kid overload. I like adventure though and good or bad , it's definitely going to be a unique expirience.
like in Default, you experience what you seek/expose yourself to. It's entirely possible to never interact with the raver kids, sparkle ponies, spectators and silicon valley bros ... or harass them with a megaphone. Our camp got placed out on K somewhere between 7-8
8:30 & Kook. Thunder Gumbo & A Cavallo Village. Our art car actually making it out to playa is still uncertain.