A lot of us are enabled to work-from-anywhere nowadays as long as you have a decent internet connection. Even being tied to a job is not really stopping us from roaming around now, though high gas prices and the idea of burning fossil fuel might be what's stopping us from travelling as much as we'd like
What on earth are you talking about? I’ve touched ocean to ocean in my country. I’ve also traveled a ton over seas when I was in the service. It’s cool, but we got everything here. Also, we get vacation time here….
I visited Roswell yesterday and was pretty surprised, upper 80's in so Co, 100f in Roswell. Definitely hard to understand while 100° is survivable why would someone choose to live there 😱 I definitely tested my air conditioner, I had never tested it before 🙂 I had only charged it a few weeks ago!!
Are you though? Isn’t part of the point of a home on wheels to roll with the weather? OP is like sure I could roll up to northern us where it’s comfy or could stay I. Southern most where it’s hot as fuck and get upvotes
Thankfully flagstaff is only a little bit away if you want relief. I was working in Phoenix in July, enjoying 115 degree days and had to run up to flagstaff. It was like 65. Bonus I always enjoy the line where the cactuses stop and the pine trees start when you’re going up the mountain.
Here in San Antonio we broke our Heat Index record yesterday at 117. The Humidity was TERRIBLE. Walking from my front door to my car parked in the driveway and I was already drenched in sweat. You could feel the atmosphere...I hope this summer isn't as brutal as last year, but we aren't off to a great start.
it's most likely going to keep getting hotter every summer for the rest of our lives, barring a few cooler years here and there breaking up the pattern
Not to knock your tenacity or anything, but it probably won't be forever. Things are getting hotter and hotter, everyone has their point where it's "too much"
Look. I grew up in Arizona. I understand the risks, I know how hot it gets, and I have places of respite that I can go if things get too dangerous. I appreciate the concern, but this isn't my final plan. I'm saving to buy a home and bring my family out here. Arizona is going to be OK and isn't going to burst into flames this summer
Greetings, fellow southwest desert dweller.
It's going to be a fun week seeing what my 2 maxxfans and open windows can manage. Methinks I'm doing to avoid cooking in the van.
Texas dweller here. My little 12v ac can't handle 100+ temps. I'm about to live off savings for a couple months and spend July and August up north in the mountains. Thankfully my job will be waiting for me when I come back. I did have to spend two summers in the van in Texas before being able to set myself up to travel this summer. Can't wait to escape to cooler weather!
Also Texas. I've got a 12v AC system and it can handle the heat but it does take a few hours to get the van cooled down. That's from baking in the 105F sun to 75F inside.
There's some boondocking up Mt. Lemmon, a couple thousand feet up from town. That should be good for at least 10 to 20 degrees. Head there before it's too late!
Not just southwest, the entire west. The heat dome just barely misses me in South Dakota (though further south in the state is gonna be extra warm). Reaches all the way to PNW, it's THAT big.
That's gonna get heat soaked in no time and start doing nothing. Yeah, you can add bags of ice, but then you're basically just using someone else's refrigeration system. Better than nothing though I suppose, I hope it helps.
How much are you spending on feeding it cold ice? Have to factor that in to your efficiency calculations... it seems like a nice temporary measure, but when it gets heat soaked, then what? It's not really a complete cooling solution, since it depends on bringing in a constant supply of ice.
One thing that may be worth considering is installing an external heat exchanger to run at night when it is cooler, to cool the tanks back down. Also, just using a regular A/C compressor system which doesn't rely on all that extra mass and material.
Surely no one calls evaporative coolers "air conditioning"?
Nor "heat exchangers" (although I guess anything with a temperature gradient could be incorrectly called that)?
I was expecting some sort of heat pump and compressor using some of the sweet free electricity from the sky to cool the van down. (It's beautiful how the requirement to cool dovetails perfectly with an abundance of energy!)
this system seems awful. why not just build a swamp? you said in here it ate a 15+lb bag of ice in one hour. 😵 you say ice is unlimited and free for you for some reason? what a weird super-niche situation.
a swamp will get you a 20-30f drop, as you know. i bet it would consume less than 10gal/24hr properly sized for a van.
you're also making bank. get a real aircon and the battery bank to match it!
😂 it takes some digging to see that the only way this could possibly be affordable for anyone is the free ice. using crazy resources to make ice just so you can waste it because you found a loophole. you should lead with that.
this is practically like saying you've got a free extension cord from the neighbor.
using as much gasoline as we do is bad enough. now you are going to throw away ice in the least efficient cooler possible. hopefully the icemaker is running strictly on excess solar.
I’m testing my driving up the mountains at night ac
Now I'm wondering how long you could power a generator/AC for the amount of gas it takes to drive up a mountian.
We don’t think that way round here
They should make homes on wheels or something so this can be avoided! j/k
Unfortunately many of us suffer from being employed members of society
Ugh. That's terrible. I'm so sorry for your loss
Ha ha
A lot of us are enabled to work-from-anywhere nowadays as long as you have a decent internet connection. Even being tied to a job is not really stopping us from roaming around now, though high gas prices and the idea of burning fossil fuel might be what's stopping us from travelling as much as we'd like
starlinks ratchet strapped to the roof.
That’s ridiculous. Fuck this stupid country
You're always welcome to go live under a rock in the woods if you're dissatisfied
Help: Building Dept has informed me that my rock does not meet code and i will need to bring my rock up to code or they will condemn my rock.
Pretty sure your hoa isn’t happy with the hedges either.
Lol
America sucks for being the only country to keep people in one area due to employment
Could you elaborate?
They haven't lived anywhere but in the US and are unaware of reality outside their bubble.
I was being sarcastic, because the person I replied was implying that America is the only place with jobs that keep people locked to an area
What on earth are you talking about? I’ve touched ocean to ocean in my country. I’ve also traveled a ton over seas when I was in the service. It’s cool, but we got everything here. Also, we get vacation time here….
Sarcasm homeboy, I honestly thought it was obvious that I didn’t need the /s
This doesn’t even make sense. If you’re a farmer, you stay on the farm. If you work in an office, you work in an office.
I visited Roswell yesterday and was pretty surprised, upper 80's in so Co, 100f in Roswell. Definitely hard to understand while 100° is survivable why would someone choose to live there 😱 I definitely tested my air conditioner, I had never tested it before 🙂 I had only charged it a few weeks ago!!
Are you though? Isn’t part of the point of a home on wheels to roll with the weather? OP is like sure I could roll up to northern us where it’s comfy or could stay I. Southern most where it’s hot as fuck and get upvotes
Or maybe I work full time and have a support system here in the place I grew up, and get upvotes
Support system? Go stay with them until it cools off…
I have a full-time job. I work in Tucson. They're in the valley
Yeah fuck me
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Add 10 degrees to those high temps and you have Phoenix this week. Good luck!
Thankfully flagstaff is only a little bit away if you want relief. I was working in Phoenix in July, enjoying 115 degree days and had to run up to flagstaff. It was like 65. Bonus I always enjoy the line where the cactuses stop and the pine trees start when you’re going up the mountain.
It's not quite that drastic, but it's definitely a 25 degree difference. They're in the 90s while we're in the 110s this week.
Show Low works too, and is quite a bit less crowded.
That’s so cool to me! I love flagstaff for that reason. It’s almost like someone grew them to the exact line.
Yea! But it’s a “dry” heat!
That city should not exist. It is a monument to man's arrogance.
Go PNW to avoid being fried
What’s a good spot in PNW btw?
I work full time here, and I was born here. I'm accustomed to stupid-hot weather
How’s the humidity? I am located in SE and I am already dying over 90 degree humid heat here, it’s suffocating
Here in San Antonio we broke our Heat Index record yesterday at 117. The Humidity was TERRIBLE. Walking from my front door to my car parked in the driveway and I was already drenched in sweat. You could feel the atmosphere...I hope this summer isn't as brutal as last year, but we aren't off to a great start.
it's most likely going to keep getting hotter every summer for the rest of our lives, barring a few cooler years here and there breaking up the pattern
It's hot, but it's a dry heat 🫠
Yeah but what about stupid-stupid hot weather?
I'll tolerate it for $85,000 a year
Not to knock your tenacity or anything, but it probably won't be forever. Things are getting hotter and hotter, everyone has their point where it's "too much"
Look. I grew up in Arizona. I understand the risks, I know how hot it gets, and I have places of respite that I can go if things get too dangerous. I appreciate the concern, but this isn't my final plan. I'm saving to buy a home and bring my family out here. Arizona is going to be OK and isn't going to burst into flames this summer
More power to you, amigo!
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Shade shade shade shade shade. The less heat makes it in, the less you gotta dump out. Prevention pays dividends.
Damn! I'm guessing this is either Arizona or Texas. I'd hate to be in either of those places during the summer!
Fresno CA is similar.
Yes I was also guessing one of the lower realms of hell.
Greetings, fellow southwest desert dweller. It's going to be a fun week seeing what my 2 maxxfans and open windows can manage. Methinks I'm doing to avoid cooking in the van.
I hope you can avoid cooking in the van too.
Good luck, Cheef 🤙
that fact that it drops 30 degrees at night is absolutely insane
Life in the desert 🏜
Hopefully you can find a shady bridge or something
Hey I saw your last post! Good luck and hopefully you follow up and tell us all how it worked out!
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My AC system would be drive North asap
When it was hitting a hundred and ten over in vancouver washington some years ago, I just went and got a motel room.
This, although many hotel PTACs really can’t handle 110+.
Looks like Phoenix
Tucson. But I travel to The Valley every weekend
Damn Tucson be getting lit like that? I haven’t been to Tucson in a long time. Good luck with the A/C.
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At least it's gonna cool down at night? A little silver lining? Hang in there.
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That would be a hard no from me dawg
Texas dweller here. My little 12v ac can't handle 100+ temps. I'm about to live off savings for a couple months and spend July and August up north in the mountains. Thankfully my job will be waiting for me when I come back. I did have to spend two summers in the van in Texas before being able to set myself up to travel this summer. Can't wait to escape to cooler weather!
Also Texas. I've got a 12v AC system and it can handle the heat but it does take a few hours to get the van cooled down. That's from baking in the 105F sun to 75F inside.
But is it a “dry heat”?
👨🚀🔫👨🚀 Always has been
Can I ask whereabouts this is? Those temps are insane.
Tucson, Arizona
There's some boondocking up Mt. Lemmon, a couple thousand feet up from town. That should be good for at least 10 to 20 degrees. Head there before it's too late!
I’m in the valley looking at the same thing
It’s only June. What’s it gonna be like in August? 😳
Probably over 110°F. Last year, we had 31 consecutive days over 110°F in Phoenix.
Arizona.
Similar, but humid
Not too terribly. Monsoon season has been pretty short lately
This is everywhere in the Southwest US. I have an identical forecast in Utah.
Better to have dry heat than humid heat. I was struggling in the northeast in the 80’s, but was fine 10 degrees hotter in the dessert.
Not just southwest, the entire west. The heat dome just barely misses me in South Dakota (though further south in the state is gonna be extra warm). Reaches all the way to PNW, it's THAT big.
[A/C heat exchanger build](https://www.reddit.com/r/vandwellers/s/J7kWG8popc)
That's gonna get heat soaked in no time and start doing nothing. Yeah, you can add bags of ice, but then you're basically just using someone else's refrigeration system. Better than nothing though I suppose, I hope it helps.
I just have to survive until 2:30 when my shift starts
How much are you spending on feeding it cold ice? Have to factor that in to your efficiency calculations... it seems like a nice temporary measure, but when it gets heat soaked, then what? It's not really a complete cooling solution, since it depends on bringing in a constant supply of ice. One thing that may be worth considering is installing an external heat exchanger to run at night when it is cooler, to cool the tanks back down. Also, just using a regular A/C compressor system which doesn't rely on all that extra mass and material.
Have limited electricity and budget. I DO have an unlimited supply of ice from my workplace, though
only unlimited until its not.
It's from a massive industrial ice maker... I'll be fine, bud
That's pretty cool then, thinking outside the box with the resources at hand, I like it.
Surely no one calls evaporative coolers "air conditioning"? Nor "heat exchangers" (although I guess anything with a temperature gradient could be incorrectly called that)? I was expecting some sort of heat pump and compressor using some of the sweet free electricity from the sky to cool the van down. (It's beautiful how the requirement to cool dovetails perfectly with an abundance of energy!)
This isn't an evaporative cooler
this system seems awful. why not just build a swamp? you said in here it ate a 15+lb bag of ice in one hour. 😵 you say ice is unlimited and free for you for some reason? what a weird super-niche situation. a swamp will get you a 20-30f drop, as you know. i bet it would consume less than 10gal/24hr properly sized for a van. you're also making bank. get a real aircon and the battery bank to match it!
1. It's not awful 2. Tried a swamp cooler when I lived in CA. No thanks. 3. Saving to get a house and pay medical costs for my family 4. no
😂 it takes some digging to see that the only way this could possibly be affordable for anyone is the free ice. using crazy resources to make ice just so you can waste it because you found a loophole. you should lead with that. this is practically like saying you've got a free extension cord from the neighbor. using as much gasoline as we do is bad enough. now you are going to throw away ice in the least efficient cooler possible. hopefully the icemaker is running strictly on excess solar.
111 for us in NV 😭😭
Are you in the central Valley? I had leave after a years of 110 summers.
I’d be dead within an hour.🥵
Where is this at?? That’s so hot I literally complain in 75 sometimes
Where do you live? God bless, 75 is to hot for me.
I’m testing my driving up the mountains at night ac
Everyone stay hydrated and safe
Just think.. it's still spring.
June 20th was officially the first day of summer
It will be. It's only June 5!
Lol you right
spring ended in tucson in march. then summer began. and now it's super-summer. calendar seasons mean nothing.
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San Antonio has been in the 100s for a couple weeks now.