After years of 'umming and ahhing' about it I found an new 8000btu/hr end of line air conditioner on ebay for a snip at £99.99 + carriage ( first time I looked these things were ~ £500 ).
It's only a few weeks each year here that you really can justify one but it makes the difference between getting useful work done and not much at all.
What's somewhat surprised me is that it seems only just to mananage with a room
15' x 12' x 8'6".Graham
Where I grew up, New Orleans, 8000 BTU units were considered to be toys. It takes 24,000 or so to cool things enough to make the mosquitoes go dormant.
And why do you use BTUs? I thought Europeans used kcal/hr or joules/fortnight or something. And why would you want to air condition a carriage?
So many mysteries.
John
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Somewhat bizarrely it persists in hvac use here. It's about 2.5kW.
A carriage ? Oh 'carriage' is like P&P. The goods are delivered by a 'carrier'.
lol !
Graham
Take a vacation when it's hot.
How much heat does it extract for this 8000BTU?
Where I grew up, we took a nap for 3 hours in the hottest part of the day. Worked later, and didn't have/need air con.
It's an Empire thing.
Ah you're confusing our speed measurement which is furlongs/fortnight.
Perhaps when you're all done with air conditioning your workplaces and homes, you can think of a way to air condition the planet.
Well duh! My house has *two* 60,000Btu/hr units.
...Jim Thompson
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I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.
Furlongs/fortnight is common enough that it is included in the Speed conversion charts at onlineconversion.com. For instance:
1 furlong/fortnight [survey] = 0.016 630 985 centimeter/second 1 furlong/fortnight [survey] = 23.571 475 441 inch/hour etc.
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What is your monthly electric bill?
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$628.28 for June.
...Jim Thompson
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| James E.Thompson, P.E. | mens |
| Analog Innovations, Inc. | et |
| Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC\'s and Discrete Systems | manus |
| Phoenix, Arizona Voice:(480)460-2350 | |
| E-mail Address at Website Fax:(480)460-2142 | Brass Rat |
| http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 |
I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.
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Thats about total what I paid for rent and electric in June. My place has appartments on each side and above me; I got just one window each front and back, and I put that thermal reflecting film stuff on them.
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I'm just shy of 3700 sq.ft.
But I have double-pane glass, electro-filmed inside the "sandwich", plus sun screens on the "normal" sized ones.
However lots of it... the great room window (the one you've seen hill-side photos through) is 12' high x 15' wide... roll-a-shield on the outside, rolled down in the afternoon this time of year.
...Jim Thompson
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| James E.Thompson, P.E. | mens |
| Analog Innovations, Inc. | et |
| Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC\'s and Discrete Systems | manus |
| Phoenix, Arizona Voice:(480)460-2350 | |
| E-mail Address at Website Fax:(480)460-2142 | Brass Rat |
| http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 |
I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.
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You must love in a tenement if your rent is that low...
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No. IIRC Luhan lives in God's Country... Arizona ;-)
...Jim Thompson
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| Analog Innovations, Inc. | et |
| Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC\'s and Discrete Systems | manus |
| Phoenix, Arizona Voice:(480)460-2350 | |
| E-mail Address at Website Fax:(480)460-2142 | Brass Rat |
| http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 |
I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.
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I spent several weeks looking for appartments when I found this one. Then I spent 2 months dealing with a management company who made no move to clean up the place. Finally, a new management company took over and I got in.
700 square feet, one bedroom, $515/month. Huge courtyard with 4 gazibos, grills, several large trees and a pool. All units have porches and face the courtyard. Nothing else I looked at even came close. Besides, who wants to live 'with a bunch of white people'!!!Luhan
Believe it or else, Fred, but I already knew that.
But they're Europeons now; they should use Brussels Thermal Units or French Thermal Units (FRTs) or something.
Actually, I hate BTUs. I have a couple of books on thermal design of electronics that use units like BTU-inches/hour-square foot and horrors like that. Some take pity and use calories and cm, not quite as bad. What's wrong with watts/m-K?
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If the rent is that low, it is usually because of the murder, rape, robbery, and burglary rate in the complex.
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Good Lord ! That's more than my *yearly* electricity bill.
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We don't use much electricity - we don't have a/c - but spend more on natural gas, averaging $200/mo maybe for both. According to my brand-new $19,000 digital thermometer, it was 53F a little while ago when we went out for coffee.
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No, its that low because many people *believe* those things to be true. Or that might be true in a place where the residents were mostly anglos.
(just for your frame-o-reference: I am of German/Russion/Israeli descent*).
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$19,000 digital thermometer, and you only get 2 significant digits ??? !!! ???
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