Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 20:05:52 +0000
Reply-To: rubatoguy@COMCAST.NET
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From: Todd Last <rubatoguy@COMCAST.NET>
Subject: Re: great "personal cooling"device
One thing to keep in mind with the portabile ice makers is that they have no refrigeration for the storage bin - only to make the ice. Once made, the ice will slowly melt, and that water is recycled into being remaid into an ice cube. So you do get ice, but it may not be quite what you were expecting.
Todd
'88 westy
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From: Mike Elliott <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
> 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 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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