Its soooo hot in Phoenix...

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Luhan Monat

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That my LCD car clock turned solid black.

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Luhan Monat wrote:

That my LCD car clock turned solid black.
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Maybe that's why VFDs are popular in US vehicles ? It's always puzzled
me why US car stereos use VFDs ( whenever I've seen one an a TV prog for
example ) when European ones use LCDs.

Graham
 
Pooh Bear wrote:
Luhan Monat wrote:


That my LCD car clock turned solid black.


Maybe that's why VFDs are popular in US vehicles ? It's always puzzled
me why US car stereos use VFDs ( whenever I've seen one an a TV prog for
example ) when European ones use LCDs.

Graham

"Its 110 in the shade.... and there ain't no shade!"
Click to expand...

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Luhan Monat: luhanis(at)yahoo(dot)com
http://members.cox.net/berniekm
"Any sufficiently advanced magick is
indistinguishable from technology."
 
Luhan Monat wrote:

Pooh Bear wrote:
Luhan Monat wrote:


That my LCD car clock turned solid black.


Maybe that's why VFDs are popular in US vehicles ? It's always puzzled
me why US car stereos use VFDs ( whenever I've seen one an a TV prog for
example ) when European ones use LCDs.

Graham

"Its 110 in the shade.... and there ain't no shade!"
Click to expand...
Reminds me - must get the a/c in my car fixed ! Uk summers can be
uncomfortably warm and humid these days - climate change and all that....

Graham
 
Pooh Bear wrote:
Luhan Monat wrote:

Pooh Bear wrote:
Luhan Monat wrote:


That my LCD car clock turned solid black.


Maybe that's why VFDs are popular in US vehicles ? It's always
puzzled me why US car stereos use VFDs ( whenever I've seen one an
a TV prog for example ) when European ones use LCDs.

Graham

"Its 110 in the shade.... and there ain't no shade!"

Reminds me - must get the a/c in my car fixed ! Uk summers can be
uncomfortably warm and humid these days - climate change and all
that....

Graham
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Well, I lived in Phoenix for about 1 1/2 years. It got up to 117 once.
"Warm" is 100.

Kevin Aylward
informationEXTRACT@anasoft.co.uk
http://www.anasoft.co.uk
SuperSpice, a very affordable Mixed-Mode
Windows Simulator with Schematic Capture,
Waveform Display, FFT's and Filter Design.
 
Kevin Aylward wrote:

Pooh Bear wrote:
Luhan Monat wrote:

Pooh Bear wrote:
Luhan Monat wrote:


That my LCD car clock turned solid black.


Maybe that's why VFDs are popular in US vehicles ? It's always
puzzled me why US car stereos use VFDs ( whenever I've seen one an
a TV prog for example ) when European ones use LCDs.

Graham

"Its 110 in the shade.... and there ain't no shade!"

Reminds me - must get the a/c in my car fixed ! Uk summers can be
uncomfortably warm and humid these days - climate change and all
that....

Graham

Well, I lived in Phoenix for about 1 1/2 years. It got up to 117 once.
"Warm" is 100.
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In Phoenix I bet the humidity is low.

That makes a *big* difference.

Mumbai / Bombay is always humid and very 'sticky'.

The winter months aren't so bad though.

I recall one specific instance when 300 mm ( one foot ) of rain fell in 8
hrs.

Graham
 
On Wed, 25 May 2005 20:33:00 -0700, Luhan Monat <x@y.z> wrote:

Pooh Bear wrote:
Luhan Monat wrote:


That my LCD car clock turned solid black.


Maybe that's why VFDs are popular in US vehicles ? It's always puzzled
me why US car stereos use VFDs ( whenever I've seen one an a TV prog for
example ) when European ones use LCDs.

Graham

"Its 110 in the shade.... and there ain't no shade!"
Click to expand...
When we were traveling through Death Valley one summer we asked the
campground manager how cold does it get at night. He looked at our Canadian
licence plates and quipped "You mean how hot does it stay?" They call it dry
heat because it dries your bones out. I wish we had some of that weather
right now. It was 43°F this morning



Regards,

Boris Mohar

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Luhan Monat <x@y.z> wrote:

Its soooo hot in Phoenix...that my LCD car clock turned solid black.
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A very pleasant 23C (73F) here.

--
Terry Pinnell
Hobbyist, West Sussex, UK
 
On Thu, 26 May 2005 14:10:06 +0100, the renowned Terry Pinnell
<terrypinDELETE@THESEdial.pipex.com> wrote:

Luhan Monat <x@y.z> wrote:

Its soooo hot in Phoenix...that my LCD car clock turned solid black.

A very pleasant 23C (73F) here.
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Leaving it on the back window ledge in summer killed my talking
calculator (no sound and the display went permanently black). Too bad,
it was very annoying (Mandarin-speaking only). I have a multi-lingual
talking calculator somewhere but the speech quality is not nearly as
good.


Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany
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Embedded software/hardware/analog Info for designers: http://www.speff.com
 
On Thu, 26 May 2005 14:10:06 +0100, in sci.electronics.design Terry
Pinnell <terrypinDELETE@THESEdial.pipex.com> wrote:

Luhan Monat <x@y.z> wrote:

Its soooo hot in Phoenix...that my LCD car clock turned solid black.

A very pleasant 23C (73F) here.
Not bad, just look at my annual temperature archive. I think I win
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http://tinyurl.com/76z9g



martin

"Wales is a big welsh-shaped rain collection device"
 
On Wed, 25 May 2005 20:14:46 -0700, Luhan Monat <x@y.z> wrote:

That my LCD car clock turned solid black.
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Its soooo hot in Phoenix... that the Canadians have finally gone home.
Now the street speeds are back up to normal ;-)

...Jim Thompson
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| Analog Innovations, Inc. | et |
| Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus |
| Phoenix, Arizona Voice:(480)460-2350 | |
| E-mail Address at Website Fax:(480)460-2142 | Brass Rat |
| http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 |

I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.
 
Jim Thompson wrote:
Its soooo hot in Phoenix... that the Canadians have finally gone home.
Now the street speeds are back up to normal ;-)
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No joke. And the univerity's out of session too. Makes commuting much
faster.

Richard
 
Jim Thompson wrote:
On Wed, 25 May 2005 20:14:46 -0700, Luhan Monat <x@y.z> wrote:


That my LCD car clock turned solid black.


Its soooo hot in Phoenix... that the Canadians have finally gone home.
Now the street speeds are back up to normal ;-)

...Jim Thompson
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Just be glad you don't live in Quartzsite... it runs about 15 degrees
warmer there. Average mid-summer temperature: 130 degrees.

--
Luhan Monat: luhanis(at)yahoo(dot)com
http://members.cox.net/berniekm
"Any sufficiently advanced magick is
indistinguishable from technology."
 
On Thu, 26 May 2005 09:28:51 -0700, "Richard H." <rh86@no.spam> wrote:

Jim Thompson wrote:
Its soooo hot in Phoenix... that the Canadians have finally gone home.
Now the street speeds are back up to normal ;-)

No joke. And the univerity's out of session too. Makes commuting much
faster.

Richard
Click to expand...
I avoid Tempe like the plague (liberal loonie town :), and I don't
commute... I just walk from bedroom to office about 30' away, so I'm
only impinged by I10, US60, Loop101 and Loop202 traffic.

...Jim Thompson
--
| James E.Thompson, P.E. | mens |
| Analog Innovations, Inc. | et |
| Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus |
| Phoenix, Arizona Voice:(480)460-2350 | |
| E-mail Address at Website Fax:(480)460-2142 | Brass Rat |
| http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 |

I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.
 
Kevin Aylward <see_website@anasoft.co.uk> wrote:
Pooh Bear wrote:
Luhan Monat wrote:

Pooh Bear wrote:
Luhan Monat wrote:


That my LCD car clock turned solid black.


Maybe that's why VFDs are popular in US vehicles ? It's always
puzzled me why US car stereos use VFDs ( whenever I've seen one an
a TV prog for example ) when European ones use LCDs.

Graham

"Its 110 in the shade.... and there ain't no shade!"

Reminds me - must get the a/c in my car fixed ! Uk summers can be
uncomfortably warm and humid these days - climate change and all
that....

Graham

Well, I lived in Phoenix for about 1 1/2 years. It got up to 117 once.
"Warm" is 100.
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And 110 is not "hot", its "very warm" :))

Greetings from sunny Las Vegas...

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Mark wrote:
I've been in Phoenix when it was 120 and the planes could not take off
due to the heat.
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Yes, for reasons of cheapness, I'm told... I think that's been fixed now.

The airlines use "weight & balance" tables to determine how to set the
wing flaps during takeoff to get enough lift, based on the load and air
density (influenced by altitude & temp).

They buy the tables from the manufacturers, and they didn't pay for data
above ~118 degrees. Oops.

They can manually calc (backup for when the systems are down), but it
apparently takes a lot longer. Flights are generally delayed when the
W&B system is down.


There's also the possibility that the runway got "too short" at that
temp. For example, flying out of Steamboat Springs, Colorado (higher
altitude), if it gets too warm they have to take passengers off the
plane to ensure enough lift. (They have to reach takeoff speed by the
mid-point so they have enough runway left in case of an abort.)

Richard
 
On Thu, 26 May 2005 09:36:18 -0700, "Richard H." <rh86@no.spam> wrote:

[snip]
There's also the possibility that the runway got "too short" at that
temp. For example, flying out of Steamboat Springs, Colorado (higher
altitude), if it gets too warm they have to take passengers off the
plane to ensure enough lift. (They have to reach takeoff speed by the
mid-point so they have enough runway left in case of an abort.)

Richard
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COS is the same way. One time I was there in August they couldn't get
volunteers to get off, so they removed all the baggage. THEN people
got off. I could care less, I was going home.

But I lived to regret it... it is NOT FUN to fly thru a summer
thunderstorm in the Rockies :-(

...Jim Thompson
--
| James E.Thompson, P.E. | mens |
| Analog Innovations, Inc. | et |
| Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus |
| Phoenix, Arizona Voice:(480)460-2350 | |
| E-mail Address at Website Fax:(480)460-2142 | Brass Rat |
| http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 |

I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.
 
Jim Thompson wrote:
But I lived to regret it... it is NOT FUN to fly thru a summer
thunderstorm in the Rockies :-(
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Especially in the flying pencils they use for those low-traffic
routes... where trimming weight & balance amounts to moving passengers
to different seats.

I spent a few years in airports and I found it curious that the weather
seems to have the opposite effect here - when it's clear & hot (&
still), you'll get a wild ride; during "monsoon" season, you'll get a
smooth ride despite the high winds and downpour.

Richard
 
Sergey Kubushin wrote:
And 110 is not "hot", its "very warm" :))

Greetings from sunny Las Vegas...
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:) Yep, it's all relative. Though I have to say, above 110 it all
feels the same. The videotapes left in the car just melt faster; the
seatbelt still scalds you; you still need oven mits to grab the steering
wheel; a breeze makes you hotter, not cooler, etc.

It's funny how one will adapt to the climate... It needs to reach 100
before it's warm enough to go swimming (really, unless the pool is
heated). OTOH, if it hits 65 we're breaking out the jackets, and 50
calls for a heavy coat. Fortunately, it takes a 2-hour drive to the
mountains to get colder than 35. But the summer more than makes up for
the mild winters.

Richard
 
Boris Mohar wrote:

On Wed, 25 May 2005 20:33:00 -0700, Luhan Monat <x@y.z> wrote:

Pooh Bear wrote:
Luhan Monat wrote:


That my LCD car clock turned solid black.


Maybe that's why VFDs are popular in US vehicles ? It's always puzzled
me why US car stereos use VFDs ( whenever I've seen one an a TV prog for
example ) when European ones use LCDs.

Graham

"Its 110 in the shade.... and there ain't no shade!"

When we were traveling through Death Valley one summer we asked the
campground manager how cold does it get at night. He looked at our Canadian
licence plates and quipped "You mean how hot does it stay?" They call it dry
heat because it dries your bones out. I wish we had some of that weather
right now. It was 43°F this morning
Click to expand...
You still use Fahrenheit ? Luckily I'm old enough to know what you mean.


Graham
 
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