Heatwave Van External Temp…..

[VanDamMan]

Just charging up the battery on solar…….engine has not been running ( at least 2 days )and under the shade ……. I've recorded this temp….

Whats it like where you are …

 

[dubber36]

I'll see your 37.5 and raise you...

 

[dubber36]

PS. 18:08 is French time.

 

[CAB]

Damn. Only 37.

But the sun has gone over the house, so may have bneen more earlier

 

[Ali-G]

Just been out to turn my van around so that it's facing away from the sun and it was reading 44.
Obviously I know that that isn't the actual air temp as the heat is reflecting up from the tarmac, but that is what it was reading.

 

[t6blo]

It was 37 here in south Essex earlier - left the windows open on the van today and over the last couple of days so it didn’t get like a furnace inside.

Someone posted this on one of the FB groups - my van is black too

 

[Dellmassive]

Schorchio.



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[Dellmassive]

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[VanDamMan]

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Hi @Dellmassive ……Do panels Generally become less efficient in Hot weather..

 

[Dellmassive]

Yes..... I've seen testing where they spray water mist on the hot panels to cool them and the power jumps up a bit.

 

[Bryn23]

hope You guys are getting on with the heat, must be a shock for your systems.

the highest I’ve seen on my T6 display was 47.5 degrees while heading through Northern outback Australia, had 7 days of it until I got home.

heatwaves suck

 

[Qnapper]

Yep, heat on panel here is Spain over past 10 days has dropped from 180watts/190watts midday when sun right over panel to 140watts/150watts. Still happy enough as getting from 8amps to 10.5amps into battery from victron MPPT.

 

[Ali-G]

Just started raining in Brizzle.

 

[Qnapper]

Well just to show you Spain right now. This is on roof/solarium right now local time 17:11hrs, got to 42.2C around 2pm yesterday............... Nighttime is always around 22C

 

[Trouts]

Just started raining in Brizzle.

oh you git!!

 

[Mixersmate]

38 for me driving home from work

 

[Ali-G]

oh you git!!

Unfortunately it only lasted for about half an hour, another half an hour later the ground was bone dry and you'd never have known.
Still 30° here at the moment but I'm hoping for a nice thunder storm tonight to clear the air.

 

[Neil Nicholls]

It was showing 43 on my way home today, through Lincoln.

 

[Epic-Rob]

only 6deg here in NZ - BLISS

 

[Scruffy]

2019, northern france just coming into Beauvais, 45 degrees. Same year in the Alps skiing, -21 degrees. Quite a range, one, for a country, and two, for a van that performed faultlessly throughout.