For Christmas last year, my sister gave me a cute little weather thing, it shows the highs and lows and I reset it each morning as I sit at the computer. There is a little cartoon of a boy in the middle of this thing that shows a boy with various clothing on, from a swim suit to a full snow suit. As the weather warms up, it starts removing clothing, till the hottest part of any day showing the swimsuit. Does that make and sense?
Yesterdays high was 110.0 degrees.
Last nights low was 59.0 degrees.
Northern part of Western Arizona, 90 miles south of Las Vegas.
Photto
I'm past the age of swimsuits..
I haven't been to the beach in 20 years or a public pool in 40 years. With some of the neighbors I have around here, a swimsuit is ill advised.
About 25 years ago I went to Las Vegas for a week on business. Really. In the evenings I did play a few slots and Keno. It was terrible cold at night and the almost zero humidity almost killed me! During the day it was comfortable but still horribly dry. I did get to visit all the old school mafia casinos before they tore them all down. Sadly, I didn't have a camera.
Oh well, you couldn't take pictures inside of anywhere. I did get a little collection of matchbooks and Keno tickets though. Still have them squirreled away somewhere..
I can't imagine how people can survive in that single digit humidity. For me I find my comfort zone to be about 30% - 40% humidity and temperatures in the 50's to 60's.
Yep, the Gulf South is terribly uncomfortable this time of year, and like Dee, I sleep days to avoid the worst. The 100 days of hell has certainly begun
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100 days? Shoot, down here it's miserable from about the middle of March until the middle of December. Our so called "winter" is average mid 40's for about 2 months and usually in Feb. we get a little two week cool snap where it dances around the low 30's and MAY dip into the freezing point one or two nights which always causes as much panic as if a hurricane had hit. People run out and almost riot, stripping the stores of everything.
Silly rabbits...... It does NOT get cold here. EVER. It gets a little cool for a few weeks but that's it.
Dee, I probably missed it, but just wondering what model motor you used. I am planning on motorizing one of my 84e's (I have 3) and was going to rig a different mount due to the weight (the dish itself is relatively light) but if there is a motor that can handle the weight of that mount then I would prefer to do that. Thanks and good luck on your redo/or dish farm makeover. That is what I enjoy about this hobby, always find something I can improve on.
Photomann, I have passed by your place a few times, I have relatives in Vegas and took the alternate route through Laughlin 2-3 times while the bridge was being worked on. In fact just came back from Vegas a week ago, but used the new bridge. When we were in Vegas, it was nice (90's are not really that nice but everything is relative). We had 108 Thursday in west Texas.
OMG you guys in west Texas really get cooked big times! I could never make it there.
The motor I have is a Powermax SG9120. When this motor came out originally it was on sale I think. I knew absolutely zero about motors, I had never seen one before.
I did not understand anything about the motor tubes or how to attach them.
What I ended up with was the model that has the large, heavy duty tube. For the longest time time I was at a loss as to what to do with the thing. My dad took it and tried to make an adapter for it but it just didn't get it. Then by total accident I discovered that I could use a piece of old fence post over the tube to fit the dish mount. It's not the best or most elaborate solution but it seems to be working well for me so far.
So what I'm getting to is that they sell two models of this motor, one with the large, heavy duty tube that I have and a smaller, lighter tube that is industry standard for motorized dishes. The larger one is
non standard but it allows you to adapt it like I did.
Also be aware that you can not change the tubes from one to the other. You can't buy a motor with a large tube and then later replace the tube with the smaller one. And of course you can't put a larger tube on the motor with the small tube. I asked one of the satellite companies about this and that's what they told me. So be very sure of what you plan to do and what you order.
I was frustrated and bummed out for more than a year, I was certain I had a white elephant on my hands until I bumbled into the solution of sawing that lip off and sliding a piece of fence post over it. Turns out that was a diamond in the rough for me.
