How Does Water Coolers Work?

A water cooler is a specially designed electric appliance that is used to dispense bottled water through pr installed faucets. Generally, they are designed to accommodate usually 2, 4 or 5 gallon sized water bottles. Though they are more commonly found in offices, coolers can be used for residential usage as well. It can be extremely useful in places where drinking water is not sufficiently cold enough to satisfy people.

Water coolers are often referred to as water dispensers but there is a technical difference between the two that should be understood clearly to be able to differentiate between the two. Basically, water dispensers dispense or cool room temperature water whereas a cooler chills water. It is true that some stores use these two words interchangeably which makes it even more confusing for the purchasers.

If you are a bit concerned on reading this, here is a tip to correctly identify a cooler. A water cooler is one whose unit is going to be electrical. It is going to have a compressor or some other type of refrigeration unit to cool the water. Whereas dispensers will not have any such refrigeration units and in most cases driven by power and not electricity. Therefore, check the specifications carefully and you will be able to classify on your own.

Coming to its types, water coolers are typically available in two main types in the forms of free standing and countertop units. Both are highly popular in the markets as of now but their area of application is a bit different from each other. The free standing units are mostly used in offices and the commercial sectors whereas the countertop units are more commonly used for household usage. However, this should not be treated as a standard convention as there are exceptions as well.

 

The countertop models are comparatively cheaper compared to their free standing counterparts simply because the free standing models are stronger and designed to deliver a bigger volume of water with a greater efficiency compared to counterpart models.