tonyplane(at)bellsouth.ne
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 Posted: Sat Aug 11, 2007 2:26 pm Post subject: Re Re: Zodiac 601XL Air Conditioner |
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Terry,
Actually he made it into the airplane pretty well, but I did help him a bit. I had him get out by sitting on the wing walk-way and sliding over the leading edge feet first though. He really enjoyed our 1.2 hour flight, but it did start to get too hot. I don't think many of us have had the pleasure to enjoy the sky with someone that old.
If I make it to 93, I hope I will be in as good mental and physical shape as he.
Tony
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Re: Zodiac 601XL Air Conditioner From: Terry Turnquist (ter_turn(at)yahoo.com ([email]ter_turn(at)yahoo.com?subject=Re:%20Zodiac%20601XL%20Air%20Conditioner&replyto=711749.85549.qm(at)web55014.mail.re4.yahoo.com[/email])) Date: [b]Sat Aug 11 - 2:14 PM[/b] [quote] | Quote: | Just curious Tony... I am 61 and don't just "vault" in and out of an XL. How did
your 93 year old passenger fare??? LOL
Terry Turnquist
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"T. Graziano" <tonyplane(at)bellsouth.net ([email]tonyplane(at)bellsouth.net?subject=Re:%20Zodiac%20601XL%20Air%20Conditioner&replyto=711749.85549.qm(at)web55014.mail.re4.yahoo.com[/email])> wrote:
It has been really HOT here in NW Tennessee for the past few weeks (high 90ies
low 100s) and will also be hot next week. When I flew a few days ago I came
back soaked in sweat, a lot more than usual. Today I had promised a flight to
father of a friend of mine for his 93rd birthday.
Last night at Wal-Mart, I saw a portable "Cool Box" Personal Air Conditioner
for $49. It was similar in concept to the ones being sold for about $500 in
that you put in ice and it has a fan blowing air over the ice. It is not as big
as the expensive ones. It also has a "mist" setting (which would probably be
great in desert dry hot air). It can be run from 8 D cells, plugged into house
current using an adaptor, or better yet, it comes with a power plug-in for
12 V. It has two fan settings.
Because of the age of my passenger and the relative low cost, I bought one to
see how it would perform in my XL.
I easily fits behind the seats in the cargo compartment (I bungeed it in) and
it did work to lower the temps to a more comfortable range for me and my passenger
- for about an hour (OAT was 95F). (Box says it will lower temps 30F) You
could tell when all the ice had melted from the temp/sweat increase inside
the XL. There was no apparent RFI from the fan.
The box the unit came in has a net address of WWW.o2-cool.com, .
Down side (besides only being good for about an hour) is that there was a lot
of condensate/water on the outside of the unit which did "moisturize" my cargo
carpet. I will glue on some insulation to the outside of the unit.
For those still building, I had Installed a power plug behind the seat backs
and also one up front near the consol. (Usually have the one behind the seat
backs reserved for my portable Nav/Com.) I also installed structural pick-ups
for bungees etc in my cargo compartment.
Tony Graziano
601XL/Jab3300; N493TG; 271 hours
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