Evaporative Cooling in Melbourne

I'm looking at getting evaporative cooling over the next couple of months in time for Summer and wanted some opinions on their effectiveness specifically in Melbourne.

I've had a read through some threads on the forum and there seems to be some different opinions, but looking at historical weather data for Melbourne, it seems evaporative cooling is ideally suited. For the past few years, in most cases where the temperature exceeded 35+ degrees, humidity was very low. E.g between 5-30%.

During the 40+ degree spell we had over several days last summer, relative humdity was around 6-10%. In these conditions, evaporative cooling should cool down to around 25 degrees, which would be great.

I also noticed that the happiest people were the ones with "oversized" systems.

Would be interested to hear opinions and recommendations regarding brands as well.

Thanks


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