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A 45 year engineer clears up electric sauna ventilation

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Re: A 45 year engineer clears up electric sauna ventilation

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Post by dharmaturtle »

jmacd wrote: post #20

The sauna design rabbit hole is a very deep one. If anyone is interested in more information about sauna design in general, Trumpkin's Notes are by far the most referred to guide out there. [1] There are also new products [2] which help improve saunas which are not ideally designed or where there are constraints (ceiling height mostly) to deal with. 1: https://localmile.org/trumpkins-notes-on-building-a-sauna/ 2: htt…

Thanks for the links. I built my own super cheap (under $100) electric sauna, though I would not recommend it for anyone else to copy. It's lasted me about 4 years now though with about every-other-day-usage without burning down the house so... that's nice. I'll see if I can apply any of Trumpkin's Notes to my jank build [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28495062

Re: A 45 year engineer clears up electric sauna ventilation

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Post by dzhiurgis »

yeknoda wrote: post #46
Aerroon wrote: post #39

Off-topic but I've been curious: how well do phones handle saunas? I thought the heat and moisture would pretty much be the worst environment for electronics. Is that not the case?

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Yeah that's nuts. Sauna is for unwind and relax. You'll be spending max 10-15 minutes per entry, max 4-5 entries. I'm sure Americans are far more busy than Fins, but that somewhat ruins the aura of sauna.

Re: A 45 year engineer clears up electric sauna ventilation

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Post by dang »

yeknoda wrote: post #46
Aerroon wrote: post #39

Off-topic but I've been curious: how well do phones handle saunas? I thought the heat and moisture would pretty much be the worst environment for electronics. Is that not the case?

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Please don't start nationalistic flamewars on HN. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

Assumptions about which country another commenter is from are frequently wrong, btw.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re: A 45 year engineer clears up electric sauna ventilation

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Post by chrispeel »

Brian_K_White wrote: post #22
kken wrote: post #2

Why is the age of any relevance here?

45 year engineer, not 45 year old engineer. It's not about their age but their experience. The relevance is that someone spent 45 years, as a trained adult engineer no less, not 45 years merely breathing, aware of a problem and only after than much experience, solved it. It would also be interesting if they had been a 1 year engineer or not an engineer at all, just for different reasons.

In what part of the world is it typical to say "45 year engineer"? I'm an engineer in the western US, and would say "an engineer with 45 years of experience". I interact with lotsa international english; this one is new

Re: A 45 year engineer clears up electric sauna ventilation

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Post by dzhiurgis »

Permik wrote: post #40
2-718-281-828 wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

what is some crazy sauna fact?

In Finland sometimes we take advantage of the heat and we cook sausages on our sauna stove by wrapping them in aluminum foil and placing them on the hot rocks. You can still take a sauna normally and afterwards you have a cooked sausage to eat!

In Korea they cook soy-sauce-marinated eggs

Re: A 45 year engineer clears up electric sauna ventilation

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Post by SoftTalker »

Aurornis wrote: post #29
adrianN wrote: post #11

Am I reading this right? Is there no heat exchanger in the ventilation? That seems like an obvious improvement.

A sauna is a small, enclosed area with an extremely high moisture content that is only used for short periods of time. The expense of a heat recovery ventilator that could work with this extreme level of moisture wouldn’t even come close to recouping any potential cost savings. The combination of ventilation and heat source along with water poured on to the source is a way to regulate and adjust the temperature. The…

Dry saunas are a thing also. My gym sauna is dry except for the humidity provided by the sweating people sitting in it. They prohibit putting water on the rocks.

Re: A 45 year engineer clears up electric sauna ventilation

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Post by renewiltord »

chrispeel wrote: post #54
Brian_K_White wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

45 year engineer, not 45 year old engineer. It's not about their age but their experience. The relevance is that someone spent 45 years, as a trained adult engineer no less, not 45 years merely breathing, aware of a problem and only after than much experience, solved it. It would also be interesting if they had been a 1 year engineer or not an engineer at all, just for different reasons.

In what part of the world is it typical to say "45 year engineer"? I'm an engineer in the western US, and would say "an engineer with 45 years of experience". I interact with lotsa international english; this one is new

I have definitely seen that before. In any case, despite the website being owned by an American, the language is not common American English:

> He is enjoying his sauna 4-6 times a week. Instead of watching the “idiot TV”, Malcolm has spent his evening watching his thermal meters in his hot room.

One would not use the present continuous tense in that context as much as in that sentence.

Re: A 45 year engineer clears up electric sauna ventilation

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Post by djmips »

2-718-281-828 wrote: post #28
Brian_K_White wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

45 year engineer, not 45 year old engineer. It's not about their age but their experience. The relevance is that someone spent 45 years, as a trained adult engineer no less, not 45 years merely breathing, aware of a problem and only after than much experience, solved it. It would also be interesting if they had been a 1 year engineer or not an engineer at all, just for different reasons.

what kind of engineer? software engineer? ;D

No a real engineer.

Re: A 45 year engineer clears up electric sauna ventilation

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Post by SOLAR_FIELDS »

Aerroon wrote: post #39

Off-topic but I've been curious: how well do phones handle saunas? I thought the heat and moisture would pretty much be the worst environment for electronics. Is that not the case?

For some real numbers:

I have a barrel sauna with a Harvia. I take my phone in all the time. One level only. Where my head is, is where the thermostat is. When the temp says 170F the phone which is maybe a half meter below my head will almost never overheat. At 190F it will overheat eventually. Usually around 15 minutes or so. The higher I hold the phone and the less I insulate it the faster it overheats. “Overheat” in this case simply is the iPhone warning that it is getting too hot. I have the most recent iPhone SE at the time of this writing (2022 iPhone SE)

There’s no danger to the phone whatsoever. The phone is very good about protecting itself. Outside of the heat warnings it cools down and functions normally afterwards. The only real problem is the annoyance of not being able to use the phone in the sauna because Apple is a little overprotective of the device.

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