Yo Mex, How you holding out down south?

How I love that sound of ice crackling from being immersed in water.

The one and single, solitary only gas cooling appliance I have ever owned that worked correctly in hot weather was a Dometic FC-140 Freezer. It had lots of plumbing, six inches of insulation and a whopping ONE POINT FIVE CUBIC FOOT STORAGE.

One summer, long-ago, I got sick three times. A Brand New Norcold could not keep up. The refrigerator was working according to specification. It did the same thing the year before so Sal at Kool Fun exchanged the unit with another brand new unit.

When the tiniest tienda is a 70-mile round trip, purchasing groceries means getting enough to last 7-10 days.

Troubleshooting? Sal and a Tech Rep from Norcold both pronounced the installation as being 'excellent' Fans? Try four, added one at a time including a top flue fan that was 200 CFM. Inside D Cell fans. Nothing did a damned thing to help. Verified by thermometer. The refrigerator originally came with an ice cube maker. But in reality it turned out mushy chunky sno-cones.

Food poisoning isn't fun, in case you've never gotten a dose of it. Its the rottenest, filthiest 15-hours you'll ever spend in your life.

Milk went sour in three days. Eggs must never be stored after breaking. Mayonnaise would put the Center For Disease Control on Red Alert. There were 3 distantly parked rigs. They all complained of the same problem.

ENOUGH! Only a fool would tolerate repeated bouts of food poisoning. I switched to electric and the interior temperature dropped ten degrees for both refrigerator and freezer. No pilot lights, no eyebrow fires, no sudden ammonia disasters, and best of all - no more 33 trips to the toilet in one hour. My refrigerator and freezer interior light up like Times Square at New Years, with LED lighting. Even the vegetable bin and door shelves.

I can keep ice-cream now. This applies to the rig as well. The monster freezer keeps temps at -10F even in 100F weather. When I pour liquid over ice cubes they snap and pop.

If an individual wishes comfort down here, they have to use their brain power to be "Smarter Than The Problem".

MEXICOWANDERER wrote:
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeelectric

Refrigertor

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Freezer

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I know, propane fridge can't be trusted. If/when mine dies, I will put an electric one in. Either big or small, depending on availability of umbilical cord connection in the "habitual area" - that will likely narrow down by then.

MEXICOWANDERER wrote:
I guess I'm lucky with 2.4 kWh daily usage. I'm eager to drive by the doubled-in-size solar voltaic field on 2 August. It is providing 3.1 Megawatts of power.

Jeez that mirror steam turbine solar unit near Las Vegas otter be producing Gigawatts of power this last weak. Lucky employees get to go out after sundown and pluck dropped ducks, pheasants and chukkar as an employee benefit.

Spotted owls, vultures, ravens, hawks and eagles is more likely.

I should have mentioned that the high for that day was 13.3 C (56 f) and the low was -3.9 C (25 f).

oppsss typo in the dark I am.

MrWizard wrote:


Hi PT
when did you install "Doc Browns" flux capacitor time machine

think i will make sure im out of town in October, maybe up in the Sierra's

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeelectric

Refrigertor

And

Freezer

Here

pianotuna wrote:
Hi Mex,

October 15, 2016. 20 kwh of consumption provided for space heating, water heating, cooking, running the computer, charging the phone, and lighting.

Hi PT
when did you install "Doc Browns" flux capacitor time machine

think i will make sure im out of town in October, maybe up in the Sierra's

pianotuna wrote:

October 15, 2016. 20 kwh of consumption provided for space heating, water heating, cooking, running the computer, charging the phone, and lighting.

Same day in 2015 it was 0.6 kwh for me (do you hear me, Mex?). It's easy to stay within 2 kwh when solar can only deliver 2k in summer and 1k in winter :). Though cooking on propane. No insulation on windows, muffin fan was struggling keeping the inside below 85 in daytime, Baja Norte. Need to buy FanTastic for those hot days. It was not supposed to be THAT hot in October, but it looks like we've screwed up the global weather and now she is paying us back.

Few weeks later no fan was needed already, but heating was, for a few hours in the night - 5,000 BTU propane catalytic.

I guess I'm lucky with 2.4 kWh daily usage. I'm eager to drive by the doubled-in-size solar voltaic field on 2 August. It is providing 3.1 Megawatts of power.

Jeez that mirror steam turbine solar unit near Las Vegas otter be producing Gigawatts of power this last weak. Lucky employees get to go out after sundown and pluck dropped ducks, pheasants and chukkar as an employee benefit.