I live in Sydney and store my wine in an insulated room, and cooled by a split air conditioner. For some reason, I log the dates in gets switched on and off each year.
I switch it on when the temp hits 17.5. It runs at 15.5.
ON OFF Sept 18 2001 May 23 2002 Sept 23 2002 no record! Sept 18 2003 Mar 4 2004 air con problem Aug 27 2004 May 30 2005 Sept 10 2005 May 25 2006 no record! June 12 2007 Aug 31 2007 May 25 2008 Sept 14 2008 May 29 2009 Aug 15 2009 May 15 2010 Sept 25 2010 May 2011 problem...new aircon Sept 19 2011
How is all that for useless information
Last edited by Brucer on Tue Sep 20, 2011 3:45 pm, edited 1 time in total.
When not drinking a fine red, I'm a cardboard claret man!
Correct me if I'm wrong but I thought the point of global warming is that you can't actually see it over a short period (ie. a decade), it would only increase by 1-1.5 degrees over a period of half a century. But that being enough to redirect oceanic flows to melt polar ice caps, change el nino and the like.
I live in Perth, and I have a garden shed, with polyurethane insulation sprayed on the inside, and what is now a 14 year old refrigerated aircon system through the shell. My finish times extend to early May in a bad year, and I haven't turned the aircon on yet this year - a couple of weeks perhaps?
I should also add that, when I turn it on in warmer months, I turn it off at night unless the minimum outside temperature is over 16'. There is certainly a period of time when it is running on High 24/7.
Cheers
Allan
Wine, women and song. Ideally, you can experience all three at once.
Wine fridges back on today. Internal temperatures ranged from 13.1 to 13.8 as I extracted a bottle of Te Mata Awatea 2001 this morning. I thought I was the only miserable to switch off over winter. Thanks for coming out..... Can't remember when switch off occured, but later than usual this year due to warm(ish) winter.
