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I found the following nugget from HotUkdeals... The image of this chap chugging across France with an aircon unit strapped into the rear seat whirring away on his "Inverter".
Adding air conditioning to the car, possible???
POSTED BY: Benjimoron 3 days, 15 hours ago
Am doing a long road trip in a few days across France, it's gonna be really hot and I have no air conditioning.
So, can I add it on??? Basically buy one of the air conditioning units and plug it into my power inverter in the car rather than in the house? Will it draw too much power? I think my inverter handles about 800W.
Cheers!
I found the following nugget from HotUkdeals... The image of this chap chugging across France with an aircon unit strapped into the rear seat whirring away on his "Inverter".
Adding air conditioning to the car, possible???
POSTED BY: Benjimoron 3 days, 15 hours ago
Am doing a long road trip in a few days across France, it's gonna be really hot and I have no air conditioning.
So, can I add it on??? Basically buy one of the air conditioning units and plug it into my power inverter in the car rather than in the house? Will it draw too much power? I think my inverter handles about 800W.
Cheers!
...SupertwaaatHmmnn... Even 800W at engine cranking voltage is around 85A (assuming 75% efficiency from the inverter!). Not sure I'd want that running through my dash wiring / fag lighter.
Reminds me of those dodgy jump leads that were imported a few years back - the idea was you simply plugged one end in each fag lighter socket and cranked the engine...
Reminds me of those dodgy jump leads that were imported a few years back - the idea was you simply plugged one end in each fag lighter socket and cranked the engine...
That'll be the 9000btu (abt 3Kw) Aircon unit from B&Q then.....
Strapped in the back seat with the hose trapped in one of the rear windows.
Need a 4Kw pure sinewave inverter, 400Ah of battery capacity (to allow for periods when the car is only idling) and a 200A alternator with full charge system management, tow-bar, and trailer for the battery banks.
All in all, we can fit it, cost you about £14000 + VAT. When would you like to be booked in for your straight jacket and wallet hoovering?
Strapped in the back seat with the hose trapped in one of the rear windows.
Need a 4Kw pure sinewave inverter, 400Ah of battery capacity (to allow for periods when the car is only idling) and a 200A alternator with full charge system management, tow-bar, and trailer for the battery banks.
All in all, we can fit it, cost you about £14000 + VAT. When would you like to be booked in for your straight jacket and wallet hoovering?
One of the people on the other forum suggested opening the window to which he confidently replied-
"Don't like the windows open driving at 80mph, it's uncomfortable, noisy and consumes more power because of the extra drag than having AC on."
Our intrepid traveller then decided that an air cooler might be a better idea. No, not a dashboard fan, one of these... Conveniently ignoring the ridiculous strapped-in-the-back seat issue and adding some water to slop around the car whilst not actually cooling anything.
B and Q hulking great b
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Someone then suggested retro-fitting A/C to his car, for his short holiday-
"you can get proper AC retro fitted to cars....probably not worth it though unless you're keeping the car for a decent amount of time"
"Going in 3 days, think it'd be too expensive for the few times I'd use it. At least a cheap AC unit I could then use indoors."
FFS. Can we find him and burn him?
"Don't like the windows open driving at 80mph, it's uncomfortable, noisy and consumes more power because of the extra drag than having AC on."
Our intrepid traveller then decided that an air cooler might be a better idea. No, not a dashboard fan, one of these... Conveniently ignoring the ridiculous strapped-in-the-back seat issue and adding some water to slop around the car whilst not actually cooling anything.
B and Q hulking great b
d coolerSomeone then suggested retro-fitting A/C to his car, for his short holiday-
"you can get proper AC retro fitted to cars....probably not worth it though unless you're keeping the car for a decent amount of time"
"Going in 3 days, think it'd be too expensive for the few times I'd use it. At least a cheap AC unit I could then use indoors."
FFS. Can we find him and burn him?
Edited by carrotchomper on Tuesday 12th August 00:13
Sorry if this looks a bit "Spammy"... But this nugget deserved a post of its own... I'll call Al Gore immediately!
"What will we do when the ice caps melt?
POSTED BY: Benjimoron 3 months, 2 weeks ago
We all know it's going to happen one day, so what will the world do to survive? I have a few theories:
1. Build a huge wall around the poles trapping in a large amount of water. This would mean that most of the water was stored at the poles and would mean that the world would not get flooded. Obviously building a huge wall wouldn't be easy but I guess it's possible.
2. Build several smaller walls around the world keeping water in certain places. Effectively creating more places for there to be a high tide therefore stopping the high tides reaching a high enough level to flood places. Imagine a wall in the middle of the English channel parallel with the coast, this would mean that at high tide half the water would be trapped on the other side stopping the high tide being as high here therefore stopping us flooding and vice versa.
3. Bring the world temperature down. The problem is that the world temperature is rising. So to stop this cover a large proportion of the deserts in white/silver.
Any other ideas?
"
"What will we do when the ice caps melt?
POSTED BY: Benjimoron 3 months, 2 weeks ago
We all know it's going to happen one day, so what will the world do to survive? I have a few theories:
1. Build a huge wall around the poles trapping in a large amount of water. This would mean that most of the water was stored at the poles and would mean that the world would not get flooded. Obviously building a huge wall wouldn't be easy but I guess it's possible.
2. Build several smaller walls around the world keeping water in certain places. Effectively creating more places for there to be a high tide therefore stopping the high tides reaching a high enough level to flood places. Imagine a wall in the middle of the English channel parallel with the coast, this would mean that at high tide half the water would be trapped on the other side stopping the high tide being as high here therefore stopping us flooding and vice versa.
3. Bring the world temperature down. The problem is that the world temperature is rising. So to stop this cover a large proportion of the deserts in white/silver.
Any other ideas?
"
carrotchomper said:
Sorry if this looks a bit "Spammy"... But this nugget deserved a post of its own... I'll call Al Gore immediately!
"What will we do when the ice caps melt?
POSTED BY: Benjimoron 3 months, 2 weeks ago
We all know it's going to happen one day, so what will the world do to survive? I have a few theories:
1. Build a huge wall around the poles trapping in a large amount of water. This would mean that most of the water was stored at the poles and would mean that the world would not get flooded. Obviously building a huge wall wouldn't be easy but I guess it's possible.
2. Build several smaller walls around the world keeping water in certain places. Effectively creating more places for there to be a high tide therefore stopping the high tides reaching a high enough level to flood places. Imagine a wall in the middle of the English channel parallel with the coast, this would mean that at high tide half the water would be trapped on the other side stopping the high tide being as high here therefore stopping us flooding and vice versa.
3. Bring the world temperature down. The problem is that the world temperature is rising. So to stop this cover a large proportion of the deserts in white/silver.
Any other ideas?
"
Tell him to get matey boys B&Q air cooler to lower the temperature."What will we do when the ice caps melt?
POSTED BY: Benjimoron 3 months, 2 weeks ago
We all know it's going to happen one day, so what will the world do to survive? I have a few theories:
1. Build a huge wall around the poles trapping in a large amount of water. This would mean that most of the water was stored at the poles and would mean that the world would not get flooded. Obviously building a huge wall wouldn't be easy but I guess it's possible.
2. Build several smaller walls around the world keeping water in certain places. Effectively creating more places for there to be a high tide therefore stopping the high tides reaching a high enough level to flood places. Imagine a wall in the middle of the English channel parallel with the coast, this would mean that at high tide half the water would be trapped on the other side stopping the high tide being as high here therefore stopping us flooding and vice versa.
3. Bring the world temperature down. The problem is that the world temperature is rising. So to stop this cover a large proportion of the deserts in white/silver.
Any other ideas?
"
carrotchomper said:
One of the people on the other forum suggested opening the window to which he confidently replied-
"Don't like the windows open driving at 80mph, it's uncomfortable, noisy and consumes more power because of the extra drag than having AC on."
As opposed to the weight, noise and power consumption of a home a/c unit? Someone might want to suggest he lowers his back seats to get more fuel efficiency."Don't like the windows open driving at 80mph, it's uncomfortable, noisy and consumes more power because of the extra drag than having AC on."
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