South of the Equator 2012: Air Con Wars

(...by Chris Haines)

Tami and her 'blanky' to keep warm!

We are doing the testing in an area separated with a glass wall from the main controller assembly workshop. This has enclosed one of the building aircon units, thus ensuring a 60 mph gale in our little area if it's on full blast.
Some hardy soul sets it at 19C, and this results in Arctic clothing test conditions ( I am sure the thermostat is not right): I have had to resort to using a T shirt as a vest and wearing a jumper....while outside it is a delicious 25-30C. Tami and I prefer it warmer and gradually nudge
the setting up to 25 ..........but someone keeps turning it down......

(Simon) Tried to down load a infra red remote control program for the IR port on my laptop to try and 'take control' when nobody was looking but I couldn't get the air con unit to recognize the commands it was sending out. Have resorted to the age old trick of hiding the remote - next time I'll have the batteries out of it.

Sorocaba

The climate………

It is a little known fact that Sorocaba is 653m above sea level.....this is enough to make the atmospheric pressure (and hence oxygen content) only 93% of normal. We had thought that poor sleep and pathetic endurance walking to and from the hotel up the hills was due to post-Christmas weight gain, together with the temperatures being in the high 80’s during the day and the mid 70’s at night. We were wrong. Its not all ‘brain frying’ sunshine though, some days it rains and we have thunder and lightning although the temperature doesn’t drop much. The rain comes down in gallons and gallons and roads are instantly flooded but almost as quickly as it comes down the great cavonus storm drains along the roads swallow it up. These are the sort of drains you see in scary movies were there is something living down there just waiting to grab your ankles as you walk past.

South of the Equator 2012

Air Con Wars

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