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Extreme ... :

We skirted the edge of the outback on a 500 mile in one day drive (memory
says, may be wrong) starting at Emerald and heading south.
Somewhere along the way we came on a Holden with a car trailer, with
another Holden on the trailer. The latter had no wheels. We stopped, as one
does. He was immensely grateful. He'd used up all the wheels on the spare
car as he'd blown out tyres as he drove. He'd had a parrot, but it had
died  in the heat. He and his dog were still alive but not very happy. We
dropped them off somewhere further south.
That was probably early to mid December (we were on the Eyre Peninsula at
Christmas).

No Aircon in our old Falcon.
We opened the large front air flap and suspended ice cubes on the blast. It
worked albeit sensorially interesting - drops of iced water in a furnace
breeze.

Those were the days :-)
1977?


The

On Fri, 27 Nov 2020, 10:34 James Cameron, <quozl@laptop.org> wrote:

> Sounds good.
>
> For one-offs, my habit is to optimise my time rather than components.
>
> I'd steal power from the heater supply, wired to a 5V SMPS if stolen
> at AC line voltage, or some other converter if stolen from a low
> voltage, and run an esp8266 or esp32 module with an optional ds18b20.
>
> On my main server I'd script something that would ping the node at 8pm
> and report if it was missing.  Or it could be an esp8266 at bedside.
>
> Another way is to store the block heater power supply next to your
> bed.  Repeated inconvenience of forgetting gradually reinforces
> remembering.
>
> --
>
> Amazing the problems you wintering folks have to put up with!  Our
> first for the season extreme heatwave forecast this weekend,
>
> http://www.bom.gov.au/australia/heatwave/
>
> ... where "extreme" means failure of infrastructure; liquid roads,
> flat tyres, engines overheating, transmission line protection trips,
> babies kept indoors, dead pets, rains of dead birds,
>
> ... it is time to put the candles and medications in the fridge, not
> leave the butter out, and watch the kangaroos shelter under trees.
>
> ... still pondering best way to put aluminium foil on windows.
>
> --
> James Cameron
> http://quozl.netrek.org/
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