First off evening before last I was sitting out in the shade of the trailer and noticed a well defined classic funnel cloud emerging from the clouds to the northeast where there were storms going on. I watched it for a few minutes and it looked like it probably touched down, but I couldn't be sure because of the ridge between here and there. At that point I headed in here to fetch the camera and by the time I found it and got back out it looked like the funnel was breaking up and going back up in the cloud. You can see the remnants of it in the picture with it circled with the red oval. I'm not sure something like this didn't happen around here the night of the big storm because on the south end of the trailer there was stuff that was easily light enough that it should have been in the next county, but on the north end of the trailer it reeked havoc.
My neighbor came up with another electronic fridge that actually works GOOD so it looks like I'll buy it from him. Matter of fact it works so good that I may have to add a refrigerator thermostat to it to keep it from freezing stuff at night. at 7:00 this morning it was down to 27 degrees inside it and when I took the picture of the thermometer it was 80 degrees in here and still down to about 32 degrees in the fridge. Yesterday when it was 90 degrees in here it was still at 38 degrees which is more than cool enough to store perishables in. Not a heck of a lot of room in there, but I can live with that. The water jug in the bottom picture will just fit inside it with the lid removed which means I can store a whole bag of ice in it and that should last for days instead of the one day it usually lasts in a normal ice chest.
BTW the outdoor fridge ran out of propane last night and I've now decommissioned it. No more sucking propane for it. Now not only should I be saving $ on ice I'll be saving it on propane to.
New fridge looks fantastic! What kind is it?
ReplyDeleteCool fridge, David - very happy for you :)
ReplyDeleteGotta good neighbour there - keep him / her LOL
Just Me, its a Coleman to, but a lot newer model so evidently they've improved on them by a bunch. It looks almost new and I'd doubt that it was used much. I might be able to make a cascade system out of it using the other components to sub cool the one in it and make a small chest freezer out of it, but probably won't. That would mean twice the wattage. It does pull the same wattage as the other one (40 watts), but just works a lot better.
ReplyDeleteDani, Yep... Very Good neighbors! ;)
Nice score on the 'fridge. Looks like the ones I used to use in the big truck when I used to drive over the road. Those ones plugged into the cigarette lighter, and would cool down to about forty degrees below the ambient temperature.
ReplyDeleteAllen, this one seems to be doing better than 40 degrees which was about what the other one was doing, It should do pretty good unless we have more 100+ days.
ReplyDeleteFridge was down to 26 degrees this morning so I had to unplug it for a while to warm it up. Looks like I need to find an old fridge thermostat to wire in to keep it from being a freezer (especially as the weather keeps getting cooler.)
ReplyDeletelet me know when it explodes!
ReplyDeleteNow why should it explode?
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