Today at home just over 40 degrees with 99% humidity. Terrible day, guess thats hard for you Northerners to imagine. Phones, tablets etc overheat, just cut out. I cut out almost, just sweat sitting. Had to change 2 tyres on my ute, shirt soaked, just makes it hard work. Bike ride not even fun, lid full of sweat, gloves same. Promised 10 degrees cooler tomorrow, yee ha. Still 33 tonight at nearly 7pm.
Bugger that grog, can't even start to imagine that - 99% humidity must be dreadful. You guys are not having it easy at all.
After humidity goes, every wall has to be wiped over with vinegar, kill mould. Ask me how long that takes. At least no snow shovelling, locks freezing. All the world has unique probs.
You are getting what we had here on Sat Grog. 46 degrees. The worst day I can remember. We had a 21st lunch on at 12.30 that day too. Very unpleasant.
Quoteover 40 degrees with 99% humidity
QuoteAfter humidity goes, every wall has to be wiped over with vinegar, kill mould
Sounds like a good case for a K&N air filter.
Experiment this arvo. Air temp on 40. Rode home flogging the poor old girl. 6k revs as much as i could, even rode in lower gears than normal. Laser thermometer all over motor, hottest was 88 degrees. How do you ever get fan to come on?
7pm and 37c, 22% humidity here in Perth.
Grog southerly change hours away so humidity will drop straight away more normal temps but rain predicted Tues Wed fingers crossed :hat: :hat: :hat:
Quote from: GSXKING on Monday, 03 February 2020, 08:20 PM
Grog southerly change hours away so humidity will drop straight away more normal temps but rain predicted Tues Wed fingers crossed :hat: :hat: :hat:
Yeah, and the storm last night made this morning humid as all fu.... get out.
QuoteHow do you ever get fan to come on?
No idea Grog - mine never has!
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Quote from: grog on Monday, 03 February 2020, 07:39 PM
Experiment this arvo. Air temp on 40. Rode home flogging the poor old girl. 6k revs as much as i could, even rode in lower gears than normal. Laser thermometer all over motor, hottest was 88 degrees. How do you ever get fan to come on?
Try this again and when you stop at the end let the engine idle until the fan comes on. Shouldn't take long unless something is wrong with the fan :grin:
BTW what was the oil temp?
In 19 + years of ownership I don't think fan has ever come on :whatever: :whatever:
Weather here is very much to my liking: Lots of rain last couple of weeks and more to come. Nature needs it after 2 years of drought. I think ground water levels will be replenished. I hope we will get a sunny and dry spring, summer, and fall :riding: :riding: :riding:
The reason why I retired a couple of years ago in Oz was because of working in the heat. I contracted to a multi national for almost 30 years, their safety policy kept growing, wearing hard hats goggles gloves in the heat isn't nice. I'm enjoying the cool weather over here.
l hear you Irish, My son worked in Aussie for a while. Long sleeves, long pants with a big hi-viz hat. Said he cooked from the inside out.
She's warm here too.
Quote from: Andre on Tuesday, 04 February 2020, 09:09 AM
Try this again and when you stop at the end let the engine idle until the fan comes on. Shouldn't take long unless something is wrong with the fan :grin:
BTW what was the oil temp?
Normal oil temp in my engine is 60°C. On hot summer day it can be 80°C.
I have heard my fan working once, after dyno run (started on 105°C)
Optimum working temperature for 15W40 oil is 80-110°C, so the 14 is normally running a bit too cold here up north.
Once owned a 2013 Tiger Sport and those triples get hot. They came with water cooling BUT the fan came on regularly around 100-105°C.
You could hear it regularly cut in. You can also access the CPU with software and vary the temperature for when it would cut in (amongst other settings). Pretty neat. :onya:
Point is it's interesting these straight 4's 1400's don't run at temperatures the triumph triples run at. I too have yet to hear or see my fan cut in.
I've only just realised I have a fan, I've never heard it come on!!!! :facepalm:
Quote from: Tally on Friday, 07 February 2020, 02:05 AM
I've only just realised I have a fan, I've never heard it come on!!!! :facepalm:
It's a tiny fan. Almost need a magnifying glass to see. Also not noisy. Would be hard to hear in traffic with helmet on. More likely you will hear the fan of the car behind you.
Supposed to be 10° and 8-9 hours of sunshine tomorrow. Looks like :riding: -weather to me.
Supposed to be -10°C and snowing tomorrow :thumbs_down:
Yeah screw that.
Radar at Dampier, NW Australia. Eye of cyclone , not something you see everyday. Theyre gonna cop it this arvo.
Fire weather gone. Been raining lots for days. Now a chance of cyclone. Same scenario as floods 1974, 2011. 2013. I hope not. Ocean temp high so means cyclone could come further south.
I was in Gunnedah for the '74 floods and boy was there some water flowing and spreading around the country side. I believe the '55/6 floods were even worse.
I heard today all the bushfires are out and accounted for now, some of the poor bastards are dealing now with flood waters :doh: :doh: :doh:
We love a sunburned country, a land of flooding rains. ETC. ETC.
Budgewoi Channel NSW.
Has all this fire and flood in Australia affected anyone's insurance policies. I have just received a renewal for property insurance and it has increased 22% :furious:
You got out of it lightly mate .... 35% for me.
Yep, up 20% for me :thumbs_down:
This is the road that my parents live on 30 years ago to last week, they live on one of the most inland roads in the village and the sea is just short of a mile away. Extreme weather and a high tide that broke the sea wall and caused absolute devastation, as they live in a Bungalow they lost everything and lived in a Caravan in the front garden for six months while the property was replaced. No such floods there since but there is still a no build policy in place
I hope things start looking up for you guys soon