• Badabinski@kbin.earth
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    4 months ago

    Seems like a worthwhile thing to do! I’m not worried about doxxing, since someone would have to go to pretty extreme measures to correlate with the exact climate where I’m at. I installed the sensor after the hottest time of day had already passed, but here’s what it looked like:

    A graph showing the outside temperature versus the temperature in the mailbox.

    I’m pretty sure the spikes in the mailbox temperature were due to cloud cover.

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      4 months ago

      In my opinion this pretty conclusively proves that you can’t make a mailbox lasagna. This is the graph I looked but for my previous statement:

      A graph showing the temperature the inside of a car can reach in the sun

      And it shows that a car can hit 130-140 at temps around what you posted. Which is so much wildly higher than what you posted I do have to assume cars have some sort of greenhouse effect going that mailboxes don’t

      Finally when you consider how much of the total volume of a mailbox a lasagna covers, I have to imagine that’ll slow heating down even more! Great work!

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        4 months ago

        As a follow-up, I have a new record temperature. Thanks, West Coast heat dome!

        altr

        Here’s with the ambient air temperature:

        altr

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          4 months ago

          Damn. Even with the crazy high heat you’re basically parking the food right in the danger zone for bacteria growth. Mailbox lasagna: busted