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Main Forums => The Roundtable => Topic started by: K Frame on September 29, 2020, 11:38:47 AM
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I just found this in my owner's manual...
"This displays the outside temperature between −408F (−408C) and 1228F (508C)"
So, I guess I'm ready for driving either on Mars or the dark side of the moon...
Edit in: Just noticed that that's a typo... -408 F is actually -222 and change C...
But, judging by the other sections in the manual talking about temperature, it looks as if they missed some periods... I think it should actually be -40.8 and 122.8...
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Makes sense about the missing decimal place. -40F would convert to -40C.
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Just made me chuckle.
As I told my friend, who is also a Subaru guy, at least I'll know what temperature caused my Forester to melt and catch on fire.
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Will the AC work on Venus?
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Will the AC work on Venus?
Wouldn't see why not... at least until the concentrated sulfuric acid in the atmosphere dissolves, well, everything.
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I think it is a coding error. -40 [degree symbol] F to 122 [degree symbol] F.
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I thought among the "woke" types things like periods (which look like decimal points) are now considered to be micro aggressions?
Good thing it only goes down to -40 F. If it went to -40 C, there would be trouble.*
* - a little intentional low temp humor there - I'm sure APS members will catch it. ;)
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Maybe Musk should have sent a Subaru to Mars instead of a Tesla.
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Whoops. Said Mars, but meant Mercury, where it's just a tad warm most of the time.
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Edit in: Just noticed that that's a typo... -408 F is actually -222 and change C...
Glad you caught that. calibration below absolute zero is difficult.
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Gets hard to to pump,that liquid O2 into the lungs.
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"8" not "."
"8" be "°"
ETA I didn't notice that Fly320s had pointed this out previously. Thanks, Fly320s.
Rather than cramming unicodes into posts, e-mails, etc, I put a bunch of these symbols into a text file so I could just paste and copy. I have a desktop shortcut to this file. Here's a sample:
SPECIAL OFT-USED SYMBOLS
degree °
micro µ
obelus ÷
slashed zero Ø
umlauts Ü, or ü
Ö, or ö,
pilcrow ( ¶ )
section sign ( § )
Simple, easy, works the proverbial "99%" of the time.
It was a revelation to me to discover that -40°C = -40°F back in high school and that for higher temperatures pretty much 9 ÷ 5 was equal to 1-1/2 and 5 ÷ 9 was equal to 1/2 for a rough conversion back and forth between the two scales. While 5000°F is not really 2500°C it gives you a picture of where you are between the scales with what, an 11% error?
Meh, what's an 11% error between friends? And at those temperatures, 32 degrees plus or minus is trivial.
Oh, and I got called out once for using "degrees Kelvin" ("°K") for the absolute scale of temperature. Oopsie !
Nap time.
Terry
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2500* C x 2 = 5000. 5000 - 10%(5000) = 4500. 4500 + 32 = 4532.
Google says the same thing. https://www.google.com/search?q=2500+degrees+celsius&rlz=1C1CHZL_enUS746US747&oq=2500+degr&aqs=chrome.0.0l4j69i57j0l3.6868j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
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With the right resistors you can make your temp read anything you want it to.
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2500* C x 2 = 5000. 5000 - 10%(5000) = 4500. 4500 + 32 = 4532.
Google says the same thing. https://www.google.com/search?q=2500+degrees+celsius&rlz=1C1CHZL_enUS746US747&oq=2500+degr&aqs=chrome.0.0l4j69i57j0l3.6868j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
Well, the idea was to get a general mental relationship between the two scales (at high values), not for obtaining publication quality values. Sort of like a yard equals a meter and a quart equals a liter.
All "sorta."
What "kinda" gets to me is in this passion to convert all measurements to physical-constant related units is that sometimes it yeields unwieldy units.
Hey, I'm all for that, "in theory" but my favorite example of unwieldyness is Pascals for pressure.
Me, I kind of like "atmospheres" for pressure units (bar) because I can imagine 5 handsful of air compressed into one handful of air as "five atmospheres" (5 bar) of pressure rather than 5 X (1.01325 x 105) Pascals.
Note: :rofl:
Sure, I'm used to using pico, nano, and microfarads, and even "inches of mercury," but somehow that Pascal unit always amuses me.
Note: :rofl:
Terry, 230RN