How Hot can it get???

[sprayandpray]

I was talking with one of my buddies and he said a friend of his has been taking a thermometer to work and including it in the pictures of the electric prints we are required to photograph on every ticket. So far, his highest temperature has been 115 degrees!
My friend had the idea we should start a contest and see who can record the highest temperature. I am going to get a thermometer this week-end to just see how hot my truck does get. I will submit some photos later.:

[Paint'n & Flag'n]

Yesterday it was so hot in my truck that when I went to use my computer it was moving sluggish due to overheating. It took it approx. 15 mins to start working correctly. In the 15 mins I was able to do things but it took 2-3 times longer for the function to complete...open ticket, bill ticket, upload photos....I didnt think it would ever complete. Diffidently took longer than norm due to being forced to shut the truck off.

[Doc Brown]

I have been meaning to bring a thermometer, I will bring mine. I hate starting my truck on a hot, humid day and turning on the air just to get the thickest, dampest warm air to get blown at you.

I have to say, though, I have seen a fuel usuage benefit on my truck almost doubling the mileage. I never really kept track before, but I used to leave my truck run almost all the time (partially due to a poor truck AND a poor laptop battery.) I used to get around 100 miles to the tank, and now I have gotten 200 miles several times.

[ProfessionalLocator]

As it gets hotter the Pentium four processor is programed to slow down to avoid burning itself out.

Various CPUs have differentiate high temperature limits, from a high of 200 F to as low as 140 F. These are _maximum_ temperatures and should be avoided.

I have found that once the operating temperature is exceeded the lap top either shuts down or crashes and will not start again until it has cooled off, usually by putting on the AC vent with it blowing full blast.

From a 2005 report:
http://health.usnews.com/usnews/heal.../hb050705a.htm

"Each year, a few dozen children die of heat stroke after having been left unattended in vehicles. These easily preventable tragedies happen through out the summer, not just on scorching hot days. Researchers in California measured how much cars heat up as well as whether leaving the windows cracked keeps it cooler inside.

What the researchers wanted to know: How quickly do parked cars heat up in the summer?

What they did: The authors conducted their research on 16 sunny California days, with temperatures between 72 and 96 degrees Fahrenheit. They parked a dark sedan at an angle such that direct sunlight did not pass through the windshield. The car's initial interior temperature was the same as the outside temperature. Then, with the windows closed, researchers measured the interior temperature of the car every five minutes, for a total of an hour. On two of these days, they also took the temperature inside the car for an hour with the windows cracked.

What they found: Researchers found that the car's interior temperature rose at essentially the same rate, an average of about 3 degrees every five minutes, regardless of whether the outside temperature was 72 or 96 degrees. After an hour, the final temperatures recorded averaged about 40 degrees higher than the initial temperatures, with all final temperatures topping 110 degrees. Moreover, about 80 percent of this heating up happened in the first half an hour. Cracking the windows open did not significantly affect either the rate at which the temperatures rose or the final temperatures recorded."

We do not have the option of parking out of direct sunlight as there often is no shade. Also direct sunlight often shines directly on the laptop. Vehicle interior temperatures around here, with temps lower than Texas, can often reach over 140 F very quickly.

Try calling the IT guy every time the computer heat crashes and when he gets tired of getting his day wasted talking you guys through restarts he will be the one to give the recommendation to keep the computers cool to management. To them he is the knowledgeable professional and you guys are just too ignorant to do anything but complain becasue you are hot yourself.

[UULC]

After reading the thread at 8:30 this morning I thought I would stick the thermometer in my suv WITH tinted windows. At 9:30 it was 89, at 11 am it was 102, and I just checked it at 12:45 and it is 112 degrees. The outside temp is 88 degrees with humidity of 65% and a dew point of 78 degrees.

All of this with the windows cracked about 1".

[ProfessionalLocator]

One point I failed to include;

If the temp inside the vehicle is say 130 F the CPU in the laptop is hotter. The laptop generates it's own heat and is dependent on an internal cooling fan. Even in an air conditioned vehicle block that fan port and the thing overheats rapidly. With an ambient air temperature over 100 F the laptop can still shut down due to overheating. So when temperatures climb over a 110 F inside a vehicle the laptop will soon shut down.

There is a saying in our industry; If he knew what he was doing he would have a paint stick in his hand.

[ProfessionalLocator]

I have been meaning to bring a thermometer, I will bring mine. I hate starting my truck on a hot, humid day and turning on the air just to get the thickest, dampest warm air to get blown at you.

I have to say, though, I have seen a fuel usuage benefit on my truck almost doubling the mileage. I never really kept track before, but I used to leave my truck run almost all the time (partially due to a poor truck AND a poor laptop battery.) I used to get around 100 miles to the tank, and now I have gotten 200 miles several times.

Fuel use is a good point. I have seen many a locator who never turns their engine off even when their laptop battery is still good and the weather is not hot. Seems to be some sort of macho things, real men do not turn their truck engines off. I have seen guys on an hour long locate leave their truck idling the entire time and they are even out of sight of the truck. Bad practice. More than the waste of fuel the truck can be stolenm or worse yet some child is terrorizing the neighborhood in it.

If I am going to be out of sight of the truck I turn it off and even idling with me nearby but too hot for the laptop to operate I lock the doors up and use my spare keys to get back in.

Unfortunately the excessive and unnecessary idling of trucks has produced waste that prompts the use of idle time limits. And as we have seen these idle time limits are problems in themselves. So you guys and gals out there who do not have idle monitoring and restrictions yet use common sense when you idle your engines. If the gas consumption problem does not exist at your firm your bosses may not spend the money to correct a problem that for your firm does not exist.

[yahoo]

it is getting so hot...............gonna be a nasty hurricane year ????!!!! this year will be a big one.........a cat4 or cat 5 !

[Wingfoot]

I was talking with one of my buddies. My friend had the idea we should start a contest and see who can record the highest temperature.

Okay Buddy - Just HOW hot can it get down there?



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[yahoo]

Nice!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[beyond help]

Damn Wing, I haven't been around for a few, and your posting that! Thanks alot.

[paintitnow]

When married does it turn around nd become a mood one. lowest setting, FRIGID?. HOT LL PIC THOUGH

[UULC]

Wing,

You never fail us Viners. I want to see how hot it can get.

[Goldenboy]

I am amazed at how hot the truck can get in such a short time even with both windows cracked. We have only been around 80-85 degrees and I can't stand it. I don't know how you guys do it when your temps are consistantly around 100 degrees outside.

[jarhead]

thats why now I would rather spend longer locating then being quicker and having to climb back in that sauna they call a truck