Other What currently makes your life awesome?

Please enlighten me as to what that feels like. It's impossible to cool this house down in any kind of warm weather...

 

Furlough payday turned up more cash than expected, as my employer had decided to pay me 100% rate for the recent bank holidays.
Also, I finally managed to get through to VW Finance to end my car PCP with them before my new Renault Zoe shows up next week.
The downside is that I have to keep the VW insured for as long as it takes for the collection people to be bothered to turn up.

 

That's what I'm looking at right now:


That's what's the sky is looking at:

Spoiler

Next step: grab a beer, enjoy the day in the sun with my fiancée and a (hopefully) good book.

 

Y'see, for me, that falls into the other thread. It's so hot in my house right now that you cannot move without sweating, sleeping for more than an hour or two at a time is a thing of the past.

 

I've already wheeled the AC unit onto the landing, in preparation for the hideously humid and uncomfortable mess that passes for a "nice" British summer.

 

It's 22C in the shade right now, about 27C in the sun. Brilliant weather for sitting out here, enjoying myself, the sun, the Glenmorangie (decided against beer, went for the good stuff), the book (less than I hoped I would) and quality early summer time with the lady of the house. Tonight it'll cool down to below 20C and, with an open window, I'll sleep like a baby. Especially after having had a large serving of that chili con carne bubbling away right now. With some really good Chipotle in it, no less. And fresh homemade ciabatta.

 

Leak testing!

Which means the monoblock did fit. It also means I managed to fumble my way through hard tubing without much blood or swearing. Or bending jigs.

Also that I made the 140 rad fit where, apparently, it shouldn't. It's tight, but it's in.

 

Lovely work !

 

I am so close to dropping a couple of hundred quid on a proper aircon unit right now

 

What fans are those?

 

Look like Noctua industrial?

 

Very close, but not quite!

Noctua NF-P14s PWM redux's, the 1200rpm models.

https://noctua.at/en/nf-p14s-redux-1200-pwm

 

Are they any good? I'm holding out for the A12x25 black (whenever that damn things get released!) as the added airpressure should make them amazing!

 

I have no reason to fault them so far, but I'm hardly a connoisseur when it comes to fans. My biggest complaint is that they don't come with the little rubber doodads for vibration damping, and I had to buy them separately.

You crazy kids and your not immediately installing new things!

Delivery guy had barely left and my pc was in bits yesterday >.>

 

Well, that and being the wrong colour makes them cheaper than the standard (beautiful brown) ones, right?

 

Ironically, this is one of the selling points of the redux line - it's just the fan in the box and you don't get (and have to pay for) all of the usual goodies that Noctua provide with their standard fans (extensions, low noise adaptors, fan mounts, rubber gaskets etc).

I guess the other selling point for some is that they're not the standard two-tone Noctua colour scheme. Personally I don't mind it but I know it exercises a few people

 

I bought them specifically because they weren't that hideous brown-beige of the standard ones

I might have gone for the Chromax line, but they seemed unnecessarily expensive for what I wanted.

I don't know if they were cheaper than the horribly coloured ones, tbh, I have vague recollections of them being the same..

 

Then you didn't buy at the right store, mate.

On Amazon.de the redux ones are 15.90, the brown ones are 21.90.