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Old 08-24-11, 11:19 AM   #1
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Default Shade Strategy...

Weatherman says it's gonna be a scorcher today... 88F is predicted.

At 8:45am I noticed that the sun was shining on my front door, so I measured the temp from inside the living room... 109.4F. I had a solar panel heater radiating into my room!

I had a spare bamboo shade I had not yet hung up, so I put it in place.


Then I waited a half-hour and re-measured the door temp.

New temp = 88.0

A 21F temperature drop is much better!

-AC_Hacker

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