I live in Las Vegas, and I can't seem to find a good spot for my remote thermometer sensor.
The summer is the hard one. Keeping the sensor out of direct sun, and also out of a hot spot, is difficult. I need some ideas to try.
My father, who lived in Southern California had his sensor in a jar under a table, on the side of his house. But S. California weather is nothing like here [desert].
thanks marc
Maybe you can just put an "awning" ovef the sensor. Then it won't be in direct sun. Make it white or light tan
North side of house Perhaps with a couple "blinders" a foot or so away to shield it from the morning and evening sun. Primary need is good air circulation and no direct sun on it.
I settle for N side of house and ignore the effect of morning/evening sun but in Washington state conditions are nowhere near as extreme as Vegas.
Harry K
North facing wall, and put the sensor in some large PVC pipe, horizontal, so any breeze blows through? I'm just thinking, out loud.
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The summer is the hard one. Keeping the sensor out of direct sun, and also out of a hot spot, is difficult. I need some ideas to try.
My father, who lived in Southern California had his sensor in a jar under a table, on the side of his house. But S. California weather is nothing like here [desert].
thanks marc
BTW, I spent a week in Las Vegas about 45 years ago. By mistake, I ended up in the only hotel there that didn't have airconditioning, only air cooling, and only in the hall.
But I thought, The desert gets cold at night, and I'll be out all day, so it should be okay. Apparently Las Vegas is not desert anymore.
I tried sleeping in the back yard, but it was covered in gravel, and not little gravel either, medium to rock size, so it wasn't comfortable. Rough week. Never did memorize my blackjack tables.
You also have to worry about ground surface temperature. I have one with wind gauge on a shaded enclosure, but it still gets hotter in the sun. I like the PVC pipe idea, but make a wind vane, so the wind blows through the tube.
Greg
Don't go there in the summer. They used to commonly call swamp cooling, air-conditioned. Refrigerated air was commonly advertised on entering eateries and stuff. The place might have advertised air-conditioned and be swamp cooling. Even with 105 degrees the swamp cooler is only going to get you into the low 80's
Greg
gregz wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@news.eternal-september.or g:
I hang my remote Temp sensor on my covered patio,away from the building itself. it's where the breeze can reach it,but out of direct sun.(central Florida) If you had a tree,you could hang it from a branch.
maybe if you put up a big patio-type umbrella and hang it underneath it.... ;-)
gregz wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@news.eternal-september.o rg:
when it's 105 out,you don't want to be leaving anything colder than 80,at least if your acclimatized to hot climates. it would be like stepping into a blast furnace. I hate going in and out of places that have too great a temp difference from outside. Plus you waste a lot of energy.
I'll agree with that... I never understood why places (offices, stores, etc.) seem to actually have indoor temps cooler in the summer than they do in winter. Just makes it that much more difficult to dress appropriately.
nate
My deck is 8' off the ground so I installed it under the deck. It will sometimes read a degree or two higher than my car located closer to the ground.
Yeah! That's what it was, and it was cool if you stood right in front of it, in the hall, but the air didn't make tio my room, only 8 feet away. I probably tried it with the door open too.
Since then I've learned to be comfortable in the low 80's but even if I'd known then, it woulnd't have worked in the hotel. My current method is to sleep with no sheets or blankets and to sleep nake. But I only do that at home.. Well one time I went camping in the middle of the summer in south Jersey, near the Delaware Bay, half-way from Md to Cape May. t It was so humid, and hot. My club had reserved its own island, with a boardwalk to it from the parking lot. Whenever this club went camping, the people all slept near each other, but I always went 50 feet away or more so they wouldn't wake me in the morning. This time, the island was big enough that 100, 200 feet away, I coulnd't even see the other people, so I put down a blanket and slept totally naked on top of it. (In warm weather, I only use a tent if it's going to rain) There might be a vulnerable feeling like any squirrel that is walking buy could eat me. But I got over that once I was asleep. I woke up when the sun was bright enough and no one mentioned seeing me naked. I can't outdo this and doing this once was enough for me.
I was supposed to fix my AC this spring and it looks like I won't. I'm cleaning the basement loft bed so I can sleep there when it gets hot. Used to be about 6 days a year, but last summer it was hot enough about 40 days!!
My mother claimed that's why I got pneumonia, fall of my senior year in high school, the first year of the new building with AC.
I didn't have an opinion. But one visit to the doctor for penicillin, and one follow-up visit and I was fine.
I don't understand that either. I think I've left early becaue I'm so cold. No one carries a coat in AC weather. .
How much closer is your car to the ground?
The sensor is about 2 1/2' from the ground on the car, just over 8' on the deck.
Interesting enough, both the car and deck are supported by the ground.
Sleeping naked is good, but last place I'd sleep uncovered is at the Jersey shore. Mosquitoes and flies would eat me alive.
Ed Pawlowski wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:
you and everyone else!
one time I camped and slept out in the open(Dale Hollow reservoir,TN),and the birds were flying right over,buzzing me and landing nearby to look for food. that's a rude awakening,the flapping of wings right over your head.
Looking for worms? ;-)
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