07-08-2018, 04:17 PM
If I were still on the East coast I would be excited at inevitable swells the tropical entity now called Chris will generate. Every surfer over there is buzzing with the possibilities of seeing something other than the usual summertime east coast lake like dribble. Our recent hurricane swell out west was much overhyped and underproduced, and I did not want to chase it to a location better angled to recieve what did arrive due to holiday crowds, and traffic, and gas prices.
Driving overnight to the Outerbanks of NC, happened more than once when some tropical swell maker popped up in summertime when I was still there, summer job be damned.
I wonder if Fiona would take to those gel filled mats which helps suck heat from dog bellies. Sometimes when she appears to be hot, and uncomfortable, I try and get her to lay in the coolest possible area and she acts like it is toepad deep with bubbling battery acid, and will then decide to lay on recently shaded asphalt a few inches from the sun instead of the cardboard a few feet away on asphalt under the Van that had not seen direct sun since a day earlier.
A dog's mind....Other times she seems so smart.
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Some more results on evaporative cooling.
My Sarong has been the damp cool blanket draped over me sucking heat from my shoulders neck back and belly much of the last day or three keeping me comfortable, and today it got a hand washing and rinse. So did my big black cotton bath towell and the boardshorts i kind of live in this time of year.
Rather than placing them outside in sun for fastest drying, They are both hanging towel over sarong underneath, soaking wet in front of my 3 intake fans, two Nocua 3K rpm NF-f12's and one silverstone fm181, all at max speed a with the battery a 14.7v. My interior air circulation fan is not aimed at me, but at the surface of this towel. The flow from these three fans then washes over the towels to the now shady passenger side of the van and then over my third chair where i sit in front of the side barn doors. I have my mattress elevated off of plywood platform, and blocking back wall of van, which faces south.
Results from my IR temp gun:
87.5f ............... on finished PLywood directly in front of 3 intake fans which are now on sunny side of Van:
86.5f ............... coolest spot in tight fitting sliding storage boxes under bed
88.5f............... cabinetry surface well outside fan flow
86.5f ............ coolest spot found on Van floor
71.5f ........... Coolest spot on bath towell, in most powerful part of fan flow. hottest spot on black towell 72.5f
69.5f............ Lift bath towell, aim IR gun at wet sarong underneath
83.5f........... On the interior of the window directly across van frum hung bath towell in fairly strong fan flow
83.0 f ............ Plywood directly under that window
82f ............. Plywood directly under hanging towell/sarong.
88.5f .............. coolest spot I can find in any shaded area outside the van in a 35 foot radius.
Guessing at humidity level outside at 55 to 65%
I am sitting basically directly in the flow across the towels and the only uncomfortably warm thing is this laptop on my lap. This wet towel and sarong in a strong flow of fans is basically lowering the air temp that is hitting me, downwind, by at least 4 to 4.5 degrees farenheit and when i step outside my van into the shade of the van it feels those several degrees hotter, and being afternoon this is unexpected. My west facing black conversion Van windows are not even extra insulated as i would usually have them on such a hotday with my bed pillows and Fiona's bed bungeed tightly to them.
I could hang another line and double the surface area for evaporation. Could string zigzag of clothesline of wet items and multiply evaporative surface area many fold.
31.5f Floor of my fridge filled with cheap American beer.
Chkkkkkkh Fweeeeep, gurgle gurgle gurgle, ahhhhhh.
Summertime......
beer happens.
I'll try and repeat this evaporative cooling test when I know for sure humidity is up in that rare ( for here) east coast level of 85%+, but right now I am totally comfy where it should traditionally not be this time of day.
I also like the smell of laundry detergent.
Driving overnight to the Outerbanks of NC, happened more than once when some tropical swell maker popped up in summertime when I was still there, summer job be damned.
I wonder if Fiona would take to those gel filled mats which helps suck heat from dog bellies. Sometimes when she appears to be hot, and uncomfortable, I try and get her to lay in the coolest possible area and she acts like it is toepad deep with bubbling battery acid, and will then decide to lay on recently shaded asphalt a few inches from the sun instead of the cardboard a few feet away on asphalt under the Van that had not seen direct sun since a day earlier.
A dog's mind....Other times she seems so smart.
----------
Some more results on evaporative cooling.
My Sarong has been the damp cool blanket draped over me sucking heat from my shoulders neck back and belly much of the last day or three keeping me comfortable, and today it got a hand washing and rinse. So did my big black cotton bath towell and the boardshorts i kind of live in this time of year.
Rather than placing them outside in sun for fastest drying, They are both hanging towel over sarong underneath, soaking wet in front of my 3 intake fans, two Nocua 3K rpm NF-f12's and one silverstone fm181, all at max speed a with the battery a 14.7v. My interior air circulation fan is not aimed at me, but at the surface of this towel. The flow from these three fans then washes over the towels to the now shady passenger side of the van and then over my third chair where i sit in front of the side barn doors. I have my mattress elevated off of plywood platform, and blocking back wall of van, which faces south.
Results from my IR temp gun:
87.5f ............... on finished PLywood directly in front of 3 intake fans which are now on sunny side of Van:
86.5f ............... coolest spot in tight fitting sliding storage boxes under bed
88.5f............... cabinetry surface well outside fan flow
86.5f ............ coolest spot found on Van floor
71.5f ........... Coolest spot on bath towell, in most powerful part of fan flow. hottest spot on black towell 72.5f
69.5f............ Lift bath towell, aim IR gun at wet sarong underneath
83.5f........... On the interior of the window directly across van frum hung bath towell in fairly strong fan flow
83.0 f ............ Plywood directly under that window
82f ............. Plywood directly under hanging towell/sarong.
88.5f .............. coolest spot I can find in any shaded area outside the van in a 35 foot radius.
Guessing at humidity level outside at 55 to 65%
I am sitting basically directly in the flow across the towels and the only uncomfortably warm thing is this laptop on my lap. This wet towel and sarong in a strong flow of fans is basically lowering the air temp that is hitting me, downwind, by at least 4 to 4.5 degrees farenheit and when i step outside my van into the shade of the van it feels those several degrees hotter, and being afternoon this is unexpected. My west facing black conversion Van windows are not even extra insulated as i would usually have them on such a hotday with my bed pillows and Fiona's bed bungeed tightly to them.
I could hang another line and double the surface area for evaporation. Could string zigzag of clothesline of wet items and multiply evaporative surface area many fold.
31.5f Floor of my fridge filled with cheap American beer.
Chkkkkkkh Fweeeeep, gurgle gurgle gurgle, ahhhhhh.
Summertime......
beer happens.
I'll try and repeat this evaporative cooling test when I know for sure humidity is up in that rare ( for here) east coast level of 85%+, but right now I am totally comfy where it should traditionally not be this time of day.
I also like the smell of laundry detergent.
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