Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 07:11:47 -0700
Reply-To: Mike Elliott <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Mike Elliott <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: great "personal cooling"device
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Looks like a pretty cool little gadget. Keep an eye on your battery,
though: @ 150W it'll be pulling more than 12A from your battery -- that's
12Ah, so if it's run for, say, 4 hours, your battery will be down at least
48Ah. Should be no problem when driving.
--
Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
74 Utility Trailer. Ladybug Trailer, Inc., San Juan Capistrano
KG6RCR
On 6/16/2008 9:09 PM pickle vanagon wrote:
> Right now I'm thinking about it for our planned cross country trip in the
> westy this summer.
>
> I figure that on really hot days, it also really helps to have cold drinks.
> On the other hand, the westy fridge probably can't keep up with constantly
> having warm water bottles swapped in.
>
> I've been mulling over the idea of getting one of these little ice-makers to
> run off an inverter:
> http://www.amazon.com/Wine-Enthusiast-Portable-Maker%252d-Gray/dp/B000YFVZG4/ref=pd_bbs_sr_3?ie=UTF8&s=home-garden&qid=1213675394&sr=8-3
>
> Then we'd have ice for drinks, ice for the misty mate to make it even
> cooler, etc.
>
> Anyone used one of these before?
> I found somewhere it draws 150watts.
>
>
> -Wes
>
>
>
>
> On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 11:54 PM, Jeff Kennedy <jeff@jeffkennedy.org> wrote:
>
>> Thanks Wes, its timely as I spent 5 hours driving through Arizona this
>> afternoon. 112 in phoenix, no AC. I was using a regular spray bottle,
>> it really worked but a finer spray seems nice. But I needed to use it
>> almost constantly.
>>
>> ANyone else have tricks for staying cool? Evaporative cooling works
>> great here, I'm wondering if there's some way to rig it up to to blow
>> out the vents. Maybe you could put the outdoor fan mister -
>> http://tinyurl.com/6b4ox7
>> - inside the ducting? Theres some pretty nice looking units at
>> swampy.net but they're expensive.
>>
>> cheers-
>> Jeff
>>
>>
>> On Jun 14, 2008, at 2:39 PM, pickle vanagon wrote:
>>
>> Since a/c repair has been pushed back till next summer for me, and the
>>> weather is really heating up around here, I was looking for some
>>> sort of
>>> personal evaporative cooling device. Previously I had tried the one
>>> the
>>> sharper image sells, that you wear around your neck, but it didn't
>>> really
>>> seem powerful enough to be that useful. I just got a misty mate
>>> though, and
>>> it seems really great. Website is mistymate.com I got one of the
>>> clearance
>>> models (the "elite") for $20 and it seems to work really well,
>>> especially
>>> with air blowing on you from the windows. The mist it puts out is
>>> really
>>> fine. I think the functionality of all the models is pretty much
>>> the same.
>>>
>>> Just thought that others without a/c or those avoiding its use to
>>> get better
>>> mpg might be interested.
>>>
>>> -Wes
>>>
>>>
>>> Incidentally, anybody tried one of these on a vanagon?:
>>> http://www.classicaire.com/
>>>
>>> Seems like it would be a mpg killer.
>>>
>>>
>
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