Mine consists of 2 peltier type cooling units. (Semiconductor "heat pump" plates.) On the inside is two heatsinks with small fans screwed to the cold sides of the semiconductor plates. The fans pull the cold air from the semiconductors into the cooler while warmer air is pulled into the heatsinks from behind the little fans, cooling that air. Just a circular motion of the air inside the cooler and slowly the heat is transferred to the outside heatsinks where the larger fans dissipate the heat into the air. The semiconductor plates are pretty neat. If you hold one between your thumb and forefinger and apply even 9 volts, you begin to feel the heat being transfered from your thumb to the forefinger immediately. Forefinger feels hot, thumb gets much colder. Oops. Forgot to answer the other part of your question. Cheese, lunchmeat and mayo are about all I keep in there besides NA beer, of course. Mayo lasts at least a month in the summertime. I guess I can't ask for much more than that, considering that the ambient temp in the van can be well over 100 degrees in the summer.
Yes, I completely understand the life of food in a cool. I lived on the road for years. I threw out more food than I like to admit. Now I want to build something similar with the Peltier system for a cabin or a home (stationary unit) so the pull would be less on a solar system. I don't want to rely on 110 volt from the power company. Me and a bunch of others are discussing a commune for people 50 and over. I figure all the hippy chicks will want to come over and check out my Peltier unit!
Back in the boonies at last!!! Skeleton Bone by TwoDogs posted Jul 30, 2018 at 11:56 AM Skeleton Bone Tank by TwoDogs posted Jul 30, 2018 at 11:49 AM
Yeah...just for today though. Have to pack up and make a run to the title agency tomorrow to sign the final papers. Pay the closing costs too. 128 miles round trip.
Glad to hear from you TwoDogs! Great place to park a van, too. I'm considering my own patch of scrubland, but I also want to dig a large root cellar into it as well. Good for when storms come by, as well as a place to cool off during really hot days if done properly. Enjoy yours!
Hey Varmint. I'm out here on my land now. Gotta chainsaw a driveway up to the top of my hill. Then bust up, or move all the boulders and even out the surface. Lotta work for an old man.
Antenna by TwoDogs posted Sep 13, 2018 at 11:53 AM Antenna 1 by TwoDogs posted Sep 13, 2018 at 12:02 PM I also had to buy an amplified antenna to get more TV stations. I'm not up on my hill yet, and the antenna is only 10 feet in the air, but it gave me an extra 13 channels. Should work really well on the hill and at 20 feet above the ground.
Chainsaw by TwoDogs posted Sep 13, 2018 at 12:21 PM An old man and a chainsaw...what could POSSIBLY go wrong???
"Cutting a road"...? Hmmm....the advantage is having a road. The disadvantage is some unwanted jerks wanting to use it to invade your privacy. I think that, if I were going to do this, I'd leave the frontage part almost unpassable to ward off the onslaught of nosey neighbors and official "bean counters". Can you do what you want with this land, or do you have some kind of zoning restrictions?