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Post by joev9 on May 27, 2015 12:04:07 GMT -7
Thanks to Mark, I have now completely lost it.... but at least now I either have a "bubble" or a Dexter style kill room.
Need to add a bit more plastic, but today it was 87 outside and 76 in the bubble. Hope with some improvements, I can get it down close to 70 on a 90 degree day.
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Post by RichF on May 27, 2015 12:46:32 GMT -7
Training so hard, you apparently need to wear a helmet!
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Post by joev9 on May 27, 2015 13:09:00 GMT -7
Can never be too safe...
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Post by rob on May 27, 2015 14:45:03 GMT -7
Thanks to Mark, I have now completely lost it.... but at least now I either have a "bubble" or a Dexter style kill room.
Need to add a bit more plastic, but today it was 87 outside and 76 in the bubble. Hope with some improvements, I can get it down close to 70 on a 90 degree day Im sure those who don't climb (and even many of those who do) might find this a little strange, but this is training nerdiness at it's best! Brilliant. Luckily here in the UK, the temperature is much less of a factor!
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Post by MarkAnderson on May 27, 2015 19:36:39 GMT -7
Nice Joe! I used that hangboard (made by Franklin, don't remember the model name) for several years. It was the first hangboard I trained on at home (I had a warrior board before that, but never used it).
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Post by Chris W on May 28, 2015 2:32:39 GMT -7
I'm contemplating my own bubble. I just started my summer hangboard season and the first workout went well as it was. I used Tite Grip, had a large fan blowing on my body and a wall mounted fan blowing right on my hangboard. The barn was 80 degrees with a shockingly low humidity (for this time of year) at 65%. The session went well under those conditions .
If I build a bubble, it will be much smaller, about the size of a coat closet. Joe, do you think if yours was smaller you could drop the temperature more quickly?
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Post by joev9 on May 28, 2015 5:51:38 GMT -7
Mark, yes, that is a Franklin board, there is an RPTC on the other side of the beam there that you can't see.
Yes, Chris W, if my bubble were smaller I could get the temp down lower and faster, but I would need to move my boards to be able to make it smaller. I also have some of the plastic in place to be able get the area (on the other side of the plastic on the left) cool for campusing and bouldering when that phase comes around, so I kind of compromised to have different setups for the different phases.
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Post by MarkAnderson on May 28, 2015 9:55:14 GMT -7
there is an RPTC on the other side of the beam there that you can't see. Sure there is
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Post by nabis on Jun 10, 2015 8:24:09 GMT -7
Why hasn't anybody bought a cable machine and put it under the hangboarg instead of using single weight plates? Can't imagine anything more comfortable next to air conditioning. If only I had money
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Post by Chris W on Aug 9, 2015 18:01:14 GMT -7
It appears that I, too, have joined the dark side. I managed to drop the temperature and humidity for my session, but not as much as I expected or hoped. I was hoping for my own little sub arctic freezer paradise.
Dang, file says photo is too big if I use the Add Attachment button on the page. Anyone know how to upload a photo? shrink a photo?
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Post by Chris W on Aug 10, 2015 3:18:34 GMT -7
Clearly I'm not a computer genius. Can't figure out how to get a large photo in there like Joe. I'll try to post some more mini-photos after work.
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Post by heelhook on Aug 10, 2015 3:24:25 GMT -7
Clearly I'm not a computer genius. Can't figure out how to get a large photo in there like Joe. I'll try to post some more mini-photos after work. Chris W, use www.picresize.com to shrink the images or upload them to dropbox and link them Congrats on the bubble room!
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Post by rob on Aug 10, 2015 4:36:31 GMT -7
That's quite the set up you've got going Chris! Nice campus board.
Will the fan not get in the wall of your wall? Or can you just remove it when required?
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Post by MarkAnderson on Aug 10, 2015 8:31:27 GMT -7
I like your campus board. What is the spacing between your roof trusses, and do they interfere at all with your campusing? I'm considering a similar concept in our new garage (since the Lazy H board tops out at 8.5 rungs, and really the 8.5th rung is kind of a joke). Regarding your conditions, the AC unit you're using is probably inadequate. That's about the same size as my AC unit, and it's pretty useless (I don't use it). Mike's AC unit is somewhere between the size of R2-D2 and a USPS street-corner mailbox. The problem I had with my unit is that once the room got to around 60 degrees it would ice up and prevent any further air flow through the coils. I can (usually) get my room colder than 60 without AC (I live at 7400 feet). My understanding is that the larger units work better at lower temps but I could be wrong on that point. So, what temps are people achieving with their various units (and what is the outside/ambient air temp)? I just recently built a new HB training room, so I'm still figuring things out (done two HB workouts so far). The room's dimensions are ~7'x10'x9'(tall). There are two windows and a door. I use fans to circulate outdoor air through the windows. Obviously it varies, but this time of year the overnight lows are generally in the 45-55 degree range. So far I've been able to get the room to within a degree or two of the overnight low temp. Then it's just a matter of closing the windows/shutting off the fans at the low temp point and insulating the room. During my last workout, the room was 56 when I sealed it, and 61 when I finished my workout. Not great, but 56 is a really high starting temperature in my experience. Last night was a low of 48 so I'm hoping tomorrow's workout will be much cooler. I think most of the temperature rise is caused by heat from me (I could test that, but haven't bothered to). My old room was much bigger, and so it was harder to cool down, but then it didn't warm up as quickly either (still, the temp would go up 3-5 degrees during the workout). My ideal HB temp is ~51 deg. In the Fall/Winter/Spring I can easily get to that about 90% of the time, so it's really only an issue in the summer. I haven't done enough workouts yet to tell if my new room is better or worse than the old room. I think ultimately it's going to be better, but it's been unusually warm the last week and I started my Strength Phase earlier than usual this summer. If it's not better I will be in the market for R2-D2-shaped AC units
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Post by jessebruni on Aug 10, 2015 8:47:49 GMT -7
45 degree lows in August sounds like Paradise. I'm pretty sure the low here yesterday was 78.
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