West Wittering Beach for the day.
Sun is out and nice sandy beach.
Sun is out and nice sandy beach.
Where Have You Been In Your Van Today?
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In plage des hammes French side resting after travelling and chill
It's a bit of brain twister isn't it? The basics are that there are two substances involved, usually water and ammonia. Water will absorb (hence the name) ammonia gas.
What the heater is doing is heating the water/ammonia mix and the ammonia boils off as a gas. Then the top part of the radiator on the back cools that gas back in ammonia liquid.
The liquid then flows into the refrigerator and has a boiling point of about -18°C so it will boil back to gas, taking the heat energy from the items in the refrigerator.
Finally you let the ammonia gas come back down to the water reservoir where it gets absorbed to start the cycle again.
The actual mechanics exploit some neat areas of physics but the practical result is you can do it all with no moving parts at all, not even valves just different size and shaped pipes, making them very robust. And all they need is a heat source.
Industrially it means you can run chillers off waste heat with very little maintenance.
There's even more detail about the practical aspects on Wikipedia, but even if that's too much there is a neat picture of the back of Domestic camping fridge labelled up and thermal image of the same fridge running which shows where heat is flowing.
Absorption refrigerator - Wikipedia
Physics, it's a wonderful thing
Puy de Dome, central France...
Ok so we went up in the train but it's a 5.8km climb and I've got bones in both legs.
Ok so we went up in the train but it's a 5.8km climb and I've got bones in both legs.
Where are you staying ? Tehidy ?
Llyn peninsula, Gwynedd, last nights sunset
Looks like a very short van in that shot.
It's a little bit longer than this bugger to fit 5 and two dogs in but pulls wheelies for fun
Gwel an Mor cabin site for a week
Just 1.5h from Poland and engine light pop up…. Permanently for now no problem last 5 days nothing was different just pop up from nowhere was driving around 60m/h and worst dint take laptop with me please don’t ask why I forgot it 
stoped on parking for now for rest and to let can cool down a bit will check later if light will show up or was just one off or might as well call breakdown assistance to see what they say fffs
Stuck in nowhere hahah
stoped on parking for now for rest and to let can cool down a bit will check later if light will show up or was just one off or might as well call breakdown assistance to see what they say fffs Stuck in nowhere hahah
Isn't it supposed to be summer over your side of the world?
It's very hit and miss in July. Apparently Seathwaite is the wettest place in the UK which didn't really help.
Just arrived at Costa Del Great Yarmouth for a few nights. Originally I was aiming to book a site near Horsey gap, but the website wouldn't allow.
Now parked up in scratby
Now parked up in scratby
