[DeTomaso] Climate Bag

[thomas]

Actually the warmer the air is the more moisture it can carry and the easier it is to extract it using a dehumidifier. It is also less likely to condense on a warm surface, so it is beneficial to warm up the car.

Cheers,
Thomas


> 4 feb 2015 kl. 19:10 skrev R.J <willibillie at live.de>:
> 
>   A dehumidifier works like an aircondition. The cooler the condenser is,
>   the better they work and take less energy. Inside a bag it would heat
>   up and wouldn't work well.
>   Roland
> 
>   Am 04.02.2015 um 11:13 schrieb Tomas Gunnarsson:
> 
>   Wouldn't it have been a lot easier to place the dehumidifier inside the
>   tent and just run the drain hose away from it? Kind of how you use a
>   dehumidifier in general.
> 
> 
> 
>   Tomas
>   <-----Ursprungligt Meddelande----->
> 
>       From: Mike Drew via DeTomaso [[1]detomaso at poca.com]
>   Sent: 4/2/2015 5:49:37 AM
>   To: [2]andymay24 at gmail.com;davel at emspace.com
>   Cc: [3]detomaso at poca.com
>   Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Climate Bag
>   In a message dated 2/3/15 12 13 52, [4]andymay24 at gmail.com writes:
>> Yes, I certainly would not want to be doing it for a weekend - its
>   really
>> designed for seasonal use.
>> 
>>>> Andy, he didn't say 'weekend'. He said 'week and...'
>   Yes, it takes some time to put the car into and out of the cocoon, but
>   if
>   you're taking it out and then driving it every day for a week before
>   parking
>   it for several weeks or months, it's not unreasonable.
>   FWIW, Johnny Woods balked at the high cost of a "Carcoon" in the UK so
>   he
>   made his own. His old workshop was something straight out of a Dickens
>   novel; it was in the basement of an 18th century tannery. It was
>   perpetually
>   dark and dank, and any bare metal left exposed would literally rust in
>   minutes.
>   He made a lightweight balsawood rectangle larger than the car, and then
>   a
>   light framework that reaches a peak in the middle, and covered it with
>   heavy
>   clear PVC plastic. He put a rubber seal all the way around the bottom
>   framework. He then rigged up a pulley apparatus overhead, ran a rope
>   from the
>   top of the 'tent' through the pulley and then down to an old Jaguar
>   windshield wiper motor he affixed to the wall. Powered by a 12V
>   inverter, with the
>   flip of a switch, the whole affair lifted up and was suspended over the
>   car.
>   Now, what about the humidity? Well, at first he just got a standard
>   dehumidifier, set it up outside the tent, with the inlet hose inside
>   with the
>   car, and piping to the outside for the water that was removed from the
>   air.
>   But then he got REALLY clever. You see, the dehumidifier has an air
>   exhaust
>   as well as an inlet. So, he rigged up a long length of hose and ran the
>   exhaust air back INSIDE the tent. In this way, the air was circulated
>   again
>   and again and again, getting moisture pulled out of it with each pass
>   through the machine.
>   He got a humidity gauge and measured the ultimate dryness achieved by
>   this
>   method, then on his next trip to the USA, he measured the air in Death
>   Valley in the late springtime. His bubble had lower humidity!
>   So, with just a few dollars spent plus a bit of cleverness, you can
>   really
>   take care of your car if it's in a humid environment. Even if you're
>   not
>   willing to manufacture your own tent, the trick of circulating
>   dehumidified
>   air around and around and not allowing ambient air into the cocoon is a
>   very
>   good idea!
>   Mike
> 
> 
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