If you define a whole house fan as a whole-house swamp cooler without any evaporative media or water line, then, no.
If you define a whole house fan as the part of the whole-house swamp cooler that is a huge fan and covers the whole house, whether there's water going to it or not, then, well, yes. We'll occasionally run the thing dry when the water part is on the fritz or half-shut down for the winter.
If you define a whole house fan as the part of the whole-house swamp cooler that is a huge fan and covers the whole house, whether there's water going to it or not, then, well, yes. We'll occasionally run the thing dry when the water part is on the fritz or half-shut down for the winter.