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I hate to say it but I am looking forward to the El Nino conditions. It is quite humid out here on the west coast. The El Nino conditions bring warm water up from the coast of Mexico along with the warm water comes the fish associated with the warm water. We are just really starting to see the migration of fish in the last couple of day. Soon it will be crazy out off the coast.
If you get off shore the smell completely changesSalt water pools and hot tubs just a chemical filter to create chlorine from salts.
Not really salt water and maybe not the most scientific explanation, but yea..
I love the smell of chlorine done properly.
Maybe it brings back great memories from my youth.
I love the ocean but it smells like a septic tank till your olfactory nerves go dead~!
As a construction worker on the midwest coast, I could go for a little less humidity. This last week was brutal out there.
In my closet in my house which is humidity controlled and temp - makes the closet much easier to manage parameters
Its that dam temp thing, I'm expecting 90f @ 90% daytime 80f @ 90% night in my basement with unvented dehues running 24/7...I'll buy a small air con I guess, I was hoping to find something like the small cube shaped air cons that are just water cooled evaporating fans...
I've used "chillers" similar to this. They don't work to lower the temp of a room. Maybe if you're at a desk and you have it right next to you filled with ice but the ice doesn't last very long and you have to constantly refill every hour or so. I bought one of these trying to cool down a 3 x 5 tent. It had very little effect on temp and raised the humidity in the tent.ChillWell Portable AC - Top-Rated Portable Air Cooler
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He just wants one for a box. I think a cardboard box? Everything else is a no go, too big etc.
Maybe he can find a used wine fridge with adjustable humidity if he only needs a tiny space? They have shelves too.
Once again and I’m not promoting anything here. He just wants to drop the temp in a box. He’s in a basement which I think he has high humidity probs.
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What ya fishing for? I just watched last night about the water warming, the fish moving in and the sharks In your area.
I was hoping the big bluefin tuna. would stick around again this year. There are in the 200 to 300 pound class but they took off about a month ago. So it will be Yellowfin Tune and Yellowtail. Maybe a wahoo!!!!
I can’t even begin to tell you how much I not only enjoyed it, but needed it as well!@NessaSmiles ,
Enjoyed the hell out of our front porch sitting last night! Looking forward to being a part of your new journey
Wish I could tell ya I’ve seen em work , but I don’t think those coolers will do what you need ? - ur weather up there just sux this year huh
They’d some work reaping in those monsters !
Do you eat your catches? Some people don't like fish but love fishing. I do love me some Yellowfin Toro sushi.
There is still some 100 pound class ones around about 60 miles off the coast but things have changed back this year. It take at least 3 people fully committed to doing the work and it is work. The method working the best this year is the fresh dead flying fish. You have to put a kite up to get the bait far enough away from the boat to get them to bite. One guy is steering the boat, not directly into the wind but like a 15 degree offset that you change about every mile or so. Once the kite is at altitude it just stays at that height. A second person is jigging the fresh dead flying fish. It is rigged with both a front hook and a treble hook in the back. The guy on the rod is constantly rigging the flying fish on the surface of the water. You can usually see the tuna blow up on the bait and when it takes the bait the main line is released from the kite line. The guy on the rod has to wind like crazy quick to get the slack out of the line before the fish spits out the bait. The last guy has to jump in and bring in the kite. You can have to do this for hours at a time and it gets to be work in a hurry for everyone.
Usually Toro is Bluefin. Big yellowfin get grainy. I usually keep and eat about half of what I catch. I made some fish tacos for the family earlier this month using Sculpin. Simple beer batter and fry recipe. I did some the next week with Halibut and the Sculpin actually made a better fish taco. I have in the past done many 8 day long range trips out of San Diego and that is an experience of a life time. Owning my own boat has sort of put me off to doing party boats anymore.
plain old Cardboard box?.............................. Hell no, its upgraded cardboard, 1/4" plywood with real wood corners, top and base, sealed and vented with a small computer fan, Its a big wood cube on 6" 4x4" legs....its a fking work of art in some worlds...lol
its bad timing on my part, I know better or shoulda but running perpetually these things happen. A nice chilled box would be nice but for the money I've spend building this thing I coulda bought a wine fridge, and now I need a wine fridge...lol.....just can't win trying to save a dime...building my own box?...someone shoulda stopped me....lol......
You can buy the cooling units the peltier wine coolers use. They even make them with 2 units built into one, if it will cool one of those wine coolers I would think it could do your box as well. I believe you'll have to get a power supply to go with it as well, but both can be had for less than $40 total, assuming you use a single peltier unit.
Because the operational time for dry and cure is short, all things considered, why not go with a guerilla cooler?
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Yeah that's what I thought would be a perfect fit as well.
That's pretty cool(no pun intended). I might have to try this. If it works well enough I may build a drying chamber around it.
If you do this let me know how it works out. I've been reading that the effect isn't as pronounced as you would like and they are highly inefficient compared to a compressor based cooler.
Do you think that will cool a 6x8 shed about 5 degrees if needed. Im looking for something to cool my drying shed if the temps get over 70 which in october here in michigan can happen
From what I've read they aren't very good for larger spaces. A wine cooler is small so they work in those situations but a shed your size would be better served with a portable. Peltier is also less efficient than compressor style coolers.
Hard to say, I've only read about them, no first hand experience. I Have everything I need in my AliExpress cart to make a diy water chiller for cheap that uses this same tech. But instead of air you have water go over the peltier chips.
I've been looking at getting a wine cooler & installing one of the peltier coolers as a dehumidifier inside the cooler using like an ac infinity controller 67 or something similar to moderate humidity in the cooler. I'm pretty sure that's all a cannatrol is in essence.
I rarely keep my catch. If I do it’s for others. (Even before zebra muscles.)
