The place I used to live in had ducted evaporative cooling. We had to make sure we kept the windows open so the humid air could be blown out of the house, otherwise everything just felt damp. It was definitely better than nothing, but I've found a split system, then a pedestal fan to try and redirect the cool air into other rooms is much better.
Same as what Ginger and Miss_Dee has said. Humidity affects the evaporative cooling system and when you have had quite a few days in a row of humid days it is not that effective. We have only had evaporative so I can't compare it to a split system. One thing I do like about the evaporative system is that I can have windows & doors open & if kids are going in & out of the house it doesn't matter if they don't close the doors properly.
Evaporative is rubbish. It was one thing that was going to stop us buying our current house. I'd rather ducted refrigerated cooling but apparently we cant convert it without spending a small fortune. We're planning on installing a split system in the living/dining and hope that may help.
definitely RC and nit evap. My folks have evap and last summer they had it switched to fan only because it wasn't coping with the humidity. They ended up turning it off completely and used a pedestal fan - or camped at our place in the RC!!
Evaporative uses/wastes quite a lot of water and as others have said, is no good when it's very humid. I personally like ceiling fans and only use the split system when it's really hot.
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