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The most convenient, comfortable, healthy way to cool your home using your existing swamp cooler.
Continuous Comfort™ lets you set the exact temperature you want your swamp cooler to blow. Instead of just turning on and off, the Roadrunner Comfort uses a remote sensor to monitor and adjust the water flow to the pads, ensuring the air is cooled to your chosen temperature. This means everyone in your home enjoys continuous comfort, no matter how close or far they are from the vent.
Wire nuts for connection to your cooler’s wiring are included, as well as a spare fuse.
The remote temperature sensor clips to your cooler’s air vent. If your home has ductwork and multiple vents, it can be clipped to any vent within about 30 feet of the controller. The sensor is powered by a battery whose lifetime exceeds five years, so replacing the battery will be an infrequent need. The spring-loaded clip and sensor electronics are designed to last a lifetime, like the controller itself.
The Roadrunner Comfort RC2 comes with either a single or double-wide wall plate, making it compatible with virtually all existing swamp cooler controller installations. Some newer coolers use a low-voltage controller and put more electronics in the cooler itself; these systems use low-voltage wiring to the thermostat which may not be immediately compatible with the Roadrunner Comfort. If you have one of these systems, you probably need the help of an electrician for installation.
Features
Continuous Comfort
The Roadrunner Comfort uses a sensor clipped to your air vent to measure the incoming air temperature. It uses that measurement to vary the pump operation and control the wetness of the cooling pads. By doing this it can achieve a near-constant temperature on the incoming air, mostly within +/- 1 degree Fahrenheit. The Roadrunner Comfort is the ONLY evaporative cooler control with Continuous Comfort™.
Color Touchscreen
The color touchscreen works like the one on your phone, making operating your cooler familiar and easy to use. Screens are sorted by function, and colors used to help guide quicker recognition of control functions and differentiate screens.
Simple On/Off Scheduling
It’s easy to set times for your cooler to automatically turn ON and OFF. Just tap the blue Option ‘button’ and then select ON or OFF time. You’ll come to a screen with swipe up/down rollers to set hours, minutes, and AM/PM. To disable the ON or OFF time, just tap Clear and you’ll be returned to the Options screen with the selected time (ON or OFF) disabled.
Powerful Pause Control
You can add or subtract 5 minutes, 1 hour or 1 day at a time with each touch of the buttons. Cancel returns you to automatic operation (“Auto” screen).
This lets you set a pause of hours when you leave for work, or days when you leave for vacation, to have it turned back on before you get back home.
Manual Control
Self-Updating
Once you’ve connected it to your home Wifi network, the Roadrunner Comfort controller will check every morning between 1 & 6 AM to see if there is an updated version of its software. If it finds one, it will automatically update itself. This means that it will always stay up to date with the latest features and the best possible performance and security. Without you having to ever think about it. Or pay a fee.
Vertical or horizontal mount
Some homes have a single-wide control box mounted sideways. So we make allowance for that. The Setup screen includes a control for switching between horizontal and vertical display orientation. This makes it compatible with virtually every swamp cooler wall control installation.
Long Battery Life
We guarantee the Sensor battery will last at least 3 years, but we expect it to last 5+ years.
An early low battery warning gives you plenty of time to acquire a replacement so you can enjoy uninterrupted cooling.
Made in New Mexico
Made in New Mexico where evaporative cooling is ubiquitous. Enclosures are 3D printed in Los Ranchos of compostable PLA plastic except the back and two small internal parts that need to withstand higher temperatures. The overseas-sourced electronics are assembled and tested in Los Ranchos. We do extensive life testing and quality testing to make sure that every unit performs as our customers expect and deserve. If there is a problem with your Roadrunner Comfort, we are here for you.
Installed this product recently on my system In Santa Fe, NM. Novel sensing technology eliminating large swings in temperature and humidity automatically minimizing water use in the cooling process.
I love the “set it and forget it” aspect of this controller. I also really appreciate Roadrunner Comfort’s responsive and friendly customer service no matter how silly my question or issue—even coming out to my house! These folks stand behind their product, and it shows!
This made our house a lot more comfortable this summer. It was especially useful on hot days where we wanted some cooling while going to sleep, but didn’t want the cooler to stay on all night.
I was looking high and low fo a smarter controller and this is it! Easy to install and loving the product so far. Customer service has been excellent as well!
I’ve been running mine for about 2 months now, and it works great. I’m looking forward to a little more integration into smart-home systems but for now it’s much better than my old “best-I-could-find” sorta-smart thermostat.
Very easy to install and runs well. I just had the 3 switches and would have to leave my evap running all day to come home to a cool house. I’m very happy to have automatic control over it.
Just installed it took less then 20 minutes to install and so far so good.
Very impressive product. After years of struggling with a clunky technology for the 80s, there is finally a modern solution. The temperature output of the cooler is impressively stable and it definitely reduced our what consumption. The installation was straightforward and the interface s very intuitive. Excellent product, Nancy! Thank you.
I’ll start by saying I’m not in the market for any sort of home-based cooling unit, AC or Swamp. I live in an senior retirement complex, but I’ fascinated by your product, which I read in the Albuquerque Journal. The church I attend–just last Sunday–has a problem with the swamp cooler in the sanctuary, so I’ve texted the pastor to inform him of your invention. Hopefully, he’ll pass on this information to the Building and Grounds elder(s), and they can take it from there. FYI, the church is La Mesa Presbyterian, in the International District.
I installed this controller a week ago. Installation was quick and easy. No going up on the roof.
The controls are simple & intuitive.
It does a great job of keeping the house comfortable. The temp is steady, unlike our old controller.
Humidity level in the house is lower, indicating that we’re using less water.
Thanks for the kind review, Jim, and for letting us know that we’re saving water. I guess we can add that to the Roadrunner Comfort benefits!