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A/C Woes: OK, I'll believe that the specifications for the A/C are untrustworthy.
Careful inspection of the spec sheet(above) from the LG website reveals that they say it's for windows 23" to 36", but say that the product width itself is 23.6". And they give the product height as 150 inches. WTF!!!???
An awful lot of squeezin' gonna be necessary.
So, I opened the box and actually measured the A/C case. It is about 23.5 inches wide without the expandable wings installed. So, assuming that it is not 150" high
then it COULD fit in the window if installed without one or both wings and made securely fastened to the window frame with a custom made blank on the sides to fill the holes. Not gonna be a simple insert/turn-on/cool type of installation.
(*Sigh*)
But at least I don't feel guilty about ordering an oversized product. I was sure that I'd checked the dimensions before ordering it. They lied, or at least carelessly exaggerated.
Not sure how far you'll get on that tack - electronic items can just randomly fail after passing a worthiness test. The question I'd be asking is HOW it was tested. Was it LOAD tested?
You know 150" is 12 1/2 feet? Nearly twice the height of a standard external door frame. I reckon you'd notice if it was that big
I'd probably try arguing that the symptoms were certainly suggestive of a PSU issue, and if the PSU then fails catastophically then that strongly suggests that it was the issue from the outset and that it was symptomatic. I agree that asking how it was tested would be sensible.
Yes, absolutely.
Complaint: And now my bedroom/computer room air conditioner stopped working. I have a small one from another room taking its place for now, but I'm going to need a bigger one for summer. This month is not going well for me.
Anybody have any good news?
Good News: Well, maybe not "good" news, but satisfactory. My A/C dilemma has taken a definite path. I've ordered a new, but smaller unit.
I'd decided that it would be too much trouble and risk to continue trying to get my still unboxed, but nearly too large A/C safely into and out of the window each year. A point I hadn't realized until the unit arrived on my porch last fall. One man can lift an 8000 BTU unit, but would take two to lift and secure a 12,000 BTU unit. Also, the smaller unit wouldn't require special support brackets or modifications to the window casing. Now the problem is finding a local buyer for a 12,000 BTU A/C unit.
Our local "Penny Saver" advertising newspaper has gone out of business, so I'll probably have to do some sort of Internet based advertising, which I am totally inexperienced with and am loath to do.
And since the old unit (Amazon priced this year at $480) is already completely paid for (I paid $410 total) and the new unit is cheaper ($302 total) I can put a reasonable price on the bigger unit and still might come out ahead (or at least close to even) in this fiasco.
The new (8000 BTU) unit will arrive on my porch next Tuesday. Yay! Yesterday was an 80F day, today was an 88F day here, but tomorrow and into early next week are projected to be only mid-70sF. Yay! Summer here is brief (late May through late July) but can be stifflingly muggy. Especially on the 2nd floor of this house with inadeqate insulation in the roof and poor ventilation.
Bad News: Two nosebleeds in the last three days.
But they were small and quickly stiffled.
Good news: 51 degrees today, overcast, and a very pleasant amount of wind. Little Dude was in paradise on our walk, greeting the gusts with laughter and waving arms. Bonus: the trees are finally all leafed out, so we can enjoy the sound the wind makes going through the leaves.
Also, only four more days until the rental area at the lake recreation area on our route opens for the summer. I don't care about the rentals, but they sell ice cream treats every year, and that makes Teen Kiddo very happy. We don't get ice cream trucks around here, so it's the closest I can do to make up for it. (And yeah, it would be cheaper to buy a box at the store, but memories are worth it, and the money goes to the park system, which I expect could use it. We have a really nice park system in Minnesota, and I would like it to have the funds it needs to keep being awesome.)
Nice to hear some good news. That's put me in a better mood now. I'm happy for you both.
Also the little air conditioner has finally kicked in, and it's at least cooling down in the bedroom part of the room. It's an en suite bedroom/office/ bathroom with open doorways between each section (not as fancy as it sounds), so it's hard to cool the whole thing. But it's trying. Plus while it was in the 90s today, it's supposed to cool down to the 50-60s later this week, so I have some time before I have to get a bigger one.
I don't know if this hack would be useful to you, but when my ex was sharing an apartment with a coworker, the A/C unit was in the living room and the bedrooms were down a hall and sort of around a corner... so basically, the cool never got back there. Roommate rigged up some impromptu ductwork with the plastic bag tube from a Diaper Genie cartridge taped to a piece of cardboard (with a hole cut out to let the air through). He taped the cardboard over where the cold was coming out on the A/C unit, and then used some loops of string taped (? Or maybe he used cup hooks? I don't recall) to the ceiling to suspend the diaper genie tube and guide where it went. It worked shockingly well considering how slapdash the whole thing was.
My Good News: #1 - The Front Range of Colorado has had lots of rain of the type that is gentle and soaks into the ground. Great for our drought. And the Rockies? Well it snowed where the all the ski slopes have closed now. But we are supposed to have a lovely, dry, moderate temperatures during Memorial Day weekend. #2 - Taxi picked my flatmate & myself up on time and got us to the hospital on time for my surgery yesterday by 05:20am. The surgery was very positive overall. That possible sign of cancer was gone. Repair achieved of previous surgery and I woke up around 10am, released by 11am. Taxi picked us up and we were home by 12pm. #3 - My weight yesterday morning was finally at 149.2 lbs. I broke that hurdle.
@butterflyfish: Regarding A/C in bedrooms, I am not sure why, but every bedroom I have been in our apartments is at the end of the HVAC system's venting system. We closed off the middle rooms vents as much as possible. I also open our three windows in the early AM to capture as much of the cooler air before the day heats up. I also have a Dyson Air Purifier Fan in my bedroom. The blackout panels I bought a couple years ago for our windows seem to block the heat pretty well, along with the hot tub/pool party noise.
Excellent news on all fronts! Congratulations!
Regarding A/C issues: My doctor's tiny examination room into which the nurse would hide me to wait in quiet silence with no reading material except the medical drug/treatment/disease posters on the wall, for a half hour with the door closed, before the doctor came in, was always stiffling. I'd try opening the door and the room would quickly cool, but the nurse would come by and close it again. There was a wonderful A/C outlet in the ceiling but with the door closed and no pass-through vent in the door, the ceiling outlet was nearly useless.
Apparently the building designer didn't understand the word "circulation".
Thanks for the ideas, everyone. Best we've been able to do so far is put a fan in the cool area pointed at the doorway to the warmer area. It sort of works.
@memcneil70: No sign of cancer must be a huge relief. Cancer is terrifying. That's super good news.
The kittens are at the neutering clinic now. We brought them to a low cost clinic because their regular vet wanted $700 each! It was under $150 each at the clinic. They weren't happy about the 45 minute drive in the carriers, though. They were from the same litter, and this is the first time they've ever been separated at all. Pickup is this afternoon at 5:00, so they're there all day.
Thank you @SilverGirl and @butterflyfish. I still have to take an MRI ro look at something (?) which will be later in June. I am still feeling some of the affects of the general anesthesia, I keep losing my balance and have to brace myself as I walk around the apartment. And I really would like to sleep through the night. Woke at 2am today, just like the past few days.
I do want to reinforce one thing my hospital insists on if you have general anesthesia, you need to arrange a driver to & from hospital and someone to stay with you while you recover from the effects. I am not supposed to drive for two weeks. Not even sure I am safe to walk to the stores close to us. Still that rocky this morning.
My flatmate found tiny fans that hook-up with a USB plug for power and we pointed them at our hot iMacs. He shops like a maniac on Amazon and other sites, so I have no idea where he bought them from. But they did help a little.
Mary
Complaint: Yet another nosebleed this morning, small but inconvenient. This is happening nearly daily now. I guess it's time to actually make an appointment with my otolaryngologist to get it cauterized again before a big rip happens and becomes a serious, hard to stop, problem again.
My primary physician won't do it, forcing me to go to a specialist ($$$).
Complaint: It's been two days and I haven't yet opened the email from the timecard place replying to my calling out their nonsense with the whole "oh but we couldn't get you started earlier because you hadn't signed the papers yet" excuse. I'm just so, so out of bandwidth to deal with people causing problems and then claiming they're the victim. And I know dealing with it is going to just tank my mental health for the day. And I have so much other stuff I need to deal with (Sisyphus only had one rock, darnit.)
But it's also sitting there, taunting me.
I've only been up two hours and already I'm so, so tired.
non-complaint: Little Dude woke himself up giggling today, so I've got that going for me! (Wish he could tell me what he was dreaming...)
@SilverGirl : Those people just get you at every step, it seems. What a pain to have to deal with them.
My daughter's kittens have been neutered, and they are now wearing their post-neutering attire. At the moment, one is wearing a soft neck cone, and the other is wearing modified pajamas. They were less than cooperative with the plastic cones of shame.
My cat has been to the vet as well. She got a biopsy of her lump, and the results will be back within a week. Meanwhile she is on antibiotics in case it's just an infection.
Also my new power supply arrived. My son is going to help install it this weekend. Fingers are crossed for my motherboard still working.
@butterflyfish - Thanks... and good luck to the kitties and the humans who are caring for them. And good luck to your computer. Fingers crossed that the power supply is the magic trick.
@richardandtracy - Congrats to your family! Good luck with the redecorating, and may she make many years of awesome memories in her new home. :)
Non-complaint: My new 8000 BTU air-conditioner has arrived on my porch. Yay!
Complaint: House neighbor/maintenence guy has gone on vacation until Tuesday. There is no room in my apartment to put another big box, which means one or more has to be moved out to the porch where it will get wet and soggy (or at least damp). Recent nosebleeds suggest that raising my blood pressure even a little pops the ulcer in my nose, so no straining with box moving for me.
[A few minutes later]
I took the risk: Rain is coming later this afternoon so I had to get the new A/C box into the house. I was able to slide my recently received lighted display case(still in the box) for my carved gemstone/mineral/glass menagerie off of the box containing my old dead printer, onto the floor, temporarily obstructing my TV and path upstairs. Then I was able to drag the box with old printer out onto the porch, then slide the new A/C unit from the porch into the place the printer box had been partially obstructing my path to the kitchen, and then wedge & pry the box with the display case up onto the new A/C box. Essentially playing musical chairs with boxes.
The old printer loses, it has to stay on the porch until neighbor guy returns from vacation to take it to the dump. I've been living with large boxes in my livingroom for 6 months, I'll be glad to get it all resoved and be able to walk to the kitchen without sidling past boxes.
Grocery Time: Can't afford a trip uptown this week either so I'll toddle up to the local grocery for some fresh fruit, especially bananas (for the Potassium). One of my new medicines depletes my Potassium quickly and I've been having severe leg cramps as a result. Can't go without at least a half a banana for more than two days.
Four bananas last me a week. Bananas last about a week. I've learned that buying bananas in bulk is not a clever thing to do when living alone.
Anybody know of any good source of Potassium that doesn't involve buying fresh fruit every week?
I'll also post a handmade notice on the grocery store bulletin board advertising my oversized (12,000 BTU) A/C unit (still new in box). Maybe a local farmer wants to cool his cow barn.
I get calf muscles cramps quite often in the summer months. Never got to the bottom of what causes it but peanut butter seems to help so it may be a lack of salt in my diet, or it could be something else in peanut butter that helps.
Peanut butter is a good source of magnesium
I personally take a bath in the Dead Sea Collection of bubble baths. Got hemp & lime extracts, magnesium, potassium, bromide, chloride, and sodium. Then rinse well under a shower.
These help, but as always, check with your doctor.
Magnesium glycinate (bisglycinate): Highly bioavailable, gentle on the stomach, promotes muscle relaxation and better sleep, ideal for nocturnal cramps
Magnesium citrate: Well absorbed, may help with occasional constipation, suitable for general cramps, but can cause loose stools at higher doses
Magnesium malate: Useful for exercise-related cramping and daytime muscle fatigue.
Topical magnesium (lotions, sprays, Epsom salt baths) may provide localized relief, though systemic benefit is limited.