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Originally Posted by Lily&Me
Thanks, everyone. 
I bailed on the campground after several hours in full sun at 115 degrees, with an overnight low predicted to be near 100. 
AC was running at full tilt and it was 99 degrees inside, frig not cooling as it should.....
My thought was... if I don’t leave, I’m going to die here. ......
It just makes sense to get out of this suffocating heat, and I need to see how everything does in more moderate temps before determining if anything needs tweaking...
Maggie |
Now, for those of us who are stuck in analogous conditions (not that extreme but still very harsh) for months at a time each year, there are a couple of incremental measures that will assist with lessening the severity enough to make life itself a little bit more possible. They include but are not limited to:
--A
lithium system that can run the roof a/c off-grid.
-- A Bus Kote
reflective roof
-- Somewhere between six and twelve hundred bucks worth of
CR-70 window tint (now you know why southerners are eager to fork over that kind of cash!)
--
Solar side shrouds that stick on with neodymium magnets and mask the black side window array from the full brunt of the sun
--
Interior custom window shields created with higher-tech thermal technologies such as Insul-bright (including for the
slider door)
-- Radiant barrier installed above the cab headliner (no blog post)
-- Under-chassis insulation which I still don't have (but which I've seen on another Sprinter Class B)
-- And I also haven't figured out
the rear door insulation thing yet.
-- I'm sure there's more that I'm not remembering this early in the morning.
Every little bit helps. I worked outside for several hours yesterday wearing personal protective equipment on an industrial job site. Every little bit helps, every square inch of shade, sip of water, cooling station, procedure, and device has to be added into the mix for survive-ability to occur in the southern part of this great nation.
I'm hoping to stress test our rig in the Cabela's parking lot today. It's been almost a year since I've piled maximum demands on it in terms of running the a/c off lithium and the generator. It's shaping up to be a standard butt-kicking Houston summer day where unabated temps in the rig would easily reach 107 degrees unless intervention occurs. When I ran similar pre-big-trip-departure stress tests last year, the floor was too hot for me to place my bare feet on it comfortably.
Cross-posted photo from the "
Declaring War" thread. The scientist in me wonders what your new van might have achieved in that particular camp ground if you had been able to wrap it like this:
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