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| BU508A:
--- Quote from: Cerebus on July 11, 2022, 04:57:25 pm --- --- Quote from: bd139 on July 11, 2022, 04:40:33 pm --- --- Quote from: xrunner on July 11, 2022, 04:24:20 pm --- --- Quote from: bd139 on July 11, 2022, 04:19:32 pm ---TBF I spent four days at a non aircon accommodation block (basically low grade motel) at Edwards AFB once when it was 40 oC and I didn't melt. I'm a lot less of a lard ass now so might survive still :-DD. Oh and Taco Bell every night :scared: That was a depressing week. My only trip to the US to date :( --- End quote --- Ok dumb question but I really don't know - do you all need AC at all over there at any time of the year? --- End quote --- Nope. You get it in some offices and some public transport and that’s about it. We shipped all the pussies to the other side of the pond :-DD --- End quote --- I have it in the car, where it wasn't a choice, it was already there, and I have had one in the bedroom for three summers now. I'm not fussed by daytime heat, but our hefty Victorian end of terrace just soaks up heat in the summer and doesn't cool down much at night. I'm already a "hot sleeper" and can get too hot in bed in the middle of winter. Once we started getting summers where the bedroom temperature would not fall significantly at night I started getting unpleasantly uncomfortable. So I got a portable 4kW air conditioner and run it for a few hours before bedtime then turn it off. Here's the Kitchen temperature for the past day as an indication of what the bedroom would be like without cooling: (Yes, I do have a bunch of Zigbee thermometers feeding into an MQTT instance. :)) I use the car air con because it's there but could happily live without it. The best thing about it is that you can turn it on remotely and so don't have to slap your bare beshorted legs onto a red hot car seat - that alone is worth the price of admission. --- End quote --- If summertime wouldn't happen, I would not miss it at all. |
| Cerebus:
--- Quote from: bd139 on July 11, 2022, 07:06:10 pm ---For reference: Lotus: will get nicked. TR7: garage around it is more likely to get nicked. --- End quote --- There used to be a bloke, let's call him Morgan*, an ex-student from Brunel who had over the years made a habit of coming back at weekends to help out with the ticket office for Weekend gigs. As far as I can tell he'd been doing this since he graduated, either in the early years of the university or the late years of the technical college it grew out of. Morgan was in his mid to late fifties, ugly, moon faced, double chins beneath a receding chin, a conspicuous overbite, with horn rimmed glasses that had been out of fashion for 50 years, balding with a terrible comb-over, generally describable as greasy and sweaty. He wore checked jackets with a bad tie, over-tight collar and those shit brown polyester trousers that only existed in the 1970s and were four inches too short exposing argyle socks and brown suede Hush Puppies. He used to refer to any female students helping out as "his girls**" and against all reality gave every impression of thinking of himself as some sort of "lady's man". He used to drive a TR7, and when I see or think of a TR7 it's "Morgan" that I immediately think of. The direct relevance is that he used to park his TR7 on the road in front of the University, a place no one in their right mind parked as the mean "parking to theft" time there was on the order of 1 to 2 hours. Nobody ever touched it. * I don't know who I think I'm fooling by changing his name. Anyone who knew him will immediately recognise the description. ** He once made the mistake of describing my mate Caroline thusly within her hearing. The dressing down was something to hear, including phrases such as "impotent greasy old pervert". |
| Robert763:
--- Quote from: bd139 on July 11, 2022, 01:50:59 pm --- --- Quote from: Zucca on July 11, 2022, 01:48:38 pm ---And here I am still asking again myself why I am not buying a NanoVNA in the next 10 minutes --- End quote --- In my case it's because it's difficult to find one that isn't a shitty Chinese low ball version. They have TERRIBLE supply chain and cloning issues and half the official resellers are shipping junk ones out. The fake ones used to fail cal but they now load in firmware which ignores that cal step :palm: :palm: :palm:. --- End quote --- Yep, That's why I just bought a DG8SAQ V3 VNA. SDRkits sell them but I picked up a used one on ebay. At £145 inc shipping it's more than a nanoVNA and does not have a screen but is a far better VNA. https://www.sdr-kits.net/introducing-DG8SAQ-VNWA3 In other news the internet and cable TV had been out from about 13:30 to 20:10 because some idiot dug up the fibre :palm: |
| tautech:
--- Quote from: AVGresponding on July 11, 2022, 05:47:08 pm ---Here are some (hopefully) more sensible ebay picks to help take the taste away: ................... Central screen goodness: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/144631693525 --- End quote --- Calling BD, recognize the timebase and channel plugins ? |
| Robert763:
--- Quote from: Specmaster on July 11, 2022, 02:58:49 pm --- --- Quote from: Cerebus on July 11, 2022, 02:48:41 pm ---In other news, from the thermometer outside my front window: --- End quote --- As low as 20 overnight, geez, I never noticed, that we had the cooling fan all night and slept on top of the bed, it was that sticky here :phew: --- End quote --- I knew fitting air-air heat pumps was a good idea 8) |
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