Some great ideas! I am going to buy the backup camera for a gift and probably one of the small espresso makers as well. Thanks! And hope you and your wife have a nice Thanksgiving!
The espresso maker is one of my favorite gadgets! And the backup camera has been one of those things I never new I needed until I needed it. I hope you have a great thanksgiving as well
I have the Van Essentials window shades also. I have the ones that are black on one side and have the white reflectix on the other side and I absolutely love them!!! Yes, they are pricey but they were well worth it. I originally just bought one for the window on my sliding door (I have a Promaster 2500), but after having that for about 5 months I bought the ones for my front windows.
That's awesome! I've enjoyed the build quality on the van essentials products. The only issue I have had is that we trimmed our driver side window in too tight so the magnets don't work. A little Velcro fixed the problem though.
@rileyclarkfineart i don't think mine even have magnets (they might, I just don't know hahaha). They just got in so perfectly tight that they stay in perfectly. I have a 2021 Ram Promaster 2500.
Being black is NOT synonymous with being heat-absorbing. Heat is specific to "infra-red" spectrum. Both black and white surfaces can be IR absorbing or reflective. What we "see", is totally irrelevant to the unseen IR bandwidth of light, where ALL heat is present. In all honesty, glass is where the most heat is absorbed, unless it has IR reflective film on it. That is why most sun reflective shields are useless. Light has to pass through the glass, heating the glass. The solar reflector would have to be outside the car to truly be functional. The metal on the car actually acts like foil on a potato in the oven, trapping heat inside. The only "white paint" that is IR reflective, is reflective ONLY when it contains aluminum oxide as the pigment. Any other pigment. The worst paint is black, but ONLY when it contains carbon as the pigment. Most car primer is now made with aluminum oxide, under the paint, to help reflect heat and there are few car paints that use carbon as the ultra-black, as the pigment. However, all glass is still IR absorbing and translucent, as they focus on UV reflective surfaces to stop interiors from getting destroyed from the damaging rays. IR reflection would be foil-reflective, one-way mirror, which is illegal to use on a vehicle for may reasons. The only other option would be the use of argon gasses within a double-layer glass, like in homes, which is impossible to do in a vehicle, safely. Any insulated window shields, which has an IR reflective (mylar foil), facing outside with insulation inside, is perfect. The better it can seal against a hot window, without letting heat into the cabin, the better. Black, white, red, green, blue is honestly not going to matter. You can check for IR reflection with any thermal camera or simply by placing your hand against it. An IR camera will see the surface reflecting your body heat off of it like a mirror. Placing your hand against it, or wrapping your hand with the material, you will feel super hot as your body heat is reflected back at you. An IR thermometer will also have trouble reading the temperature of the surface, and will read the temperature of whatever is reflecting off the surface, instead. (You can see the temps of a candle reflecting off the surface as a test, as well as the temps of a glass of ice, as the surface temps of the material, in the reflection.) All those compact items are awesome, but being compact and lightweight would be the best setup. Luckily, the items are not large and heavy, even though they are individually heavy. The only item that seems like a luxury is the electric griddle cooker. Cast iron cooking stuff is really a luxury to tote around. The best cook-wares would be aluminum and ceramic, for reduced weight, easy cleaning and fast heating with the least fuel or power.
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Some great ideas! I am going to buy the backup camera for a gift and probably one of the small espresso makers as well. Thanks! And hope you and your wife have a nice Thanksgiving!
The espresso maker is one of my favorite gadgets! And the backup camera has been one of those things I never new I needed until I needed it. I hope you have a great thanksgiving as well
I have the Van Essentials window shades also. I have the ones that are black on one side and have the white reflectix on the other side and I absolutely love them!!! Yes, they are pricey but they were well worth it. I originally just bought one for the window on my sliding door (I have a Promaster 2500), but after having that for about 5 months I bought the ones for my front windows.
That's awesome! I've enjoyed the build quality on the van essentials products. The only issue I have had is that we trimmed our driver side window in too tight so the magnets don't work. A little Velcro fixed the problem though.
@rileyclarkfineart i don't think mine even have magnets (they might, I just don't know hahaha). They just got in so perfectly tight that they stay in perfectly. I have a 2021 Ram Promaster 2500.
The foot stools look great but ur link isn’t correct.
Thanks for letting me know! I fixed it.
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Being black is NOT synonymous with being heat-absorbing. Heat is specific to "infra-red" spectrum. Both black and white surfaces can be IR absorbing or reflective. What we "see", is totally irrelevant to the unseen IR bandwidth of light, where ALL heat is present. In all honesty, glass is where the most heat is absorbed, unless it has IR reflective film on it. That is why most sun reflective shields are useless. Light has to pass through the glass, heating the glass. The solar reflector would have to be outside the car to truly be functional. The metal on the car actually acts like foil on a potato in the oven, trapping heat inside.
The only "white paint" that is IR reflective, is reflective ONLY when it contains aluminum oxide as the pigment. Any other pigment. The worst paint is black, but ONLY when it contains carbon as the pigment. Most car primer is now made with aluminum oxide, under the paint, to help reflect heat and there are few car paints that use carbon as the ultra-black, as the pigment. However, all glass is still IR absorbing and translucent, as they focus on UV reflective surfaces to stop interiors from getting destroyed from the damaging rays. IR reflection would be foil-reflective, one-way mirror, which is illegal to use on a vehicle for may reasons. The only other option would be the use of argon gasses within a double-layer glass, like in homes, which is impossible to do in a vehicle, safely.
Any insulated window shields, which has an IR reflective (mylar foil), facing outside with insulation inside, is perfect. The better it can seal against a hot window, without letting heat into the cabin, the better. Black, white, red, green, blue is honestly not going to matter. You can check for IR reflection with any thermal camera or simply by placing your hand against it. An IR camera will see the surface reflecting your body heat off of it like a mirror. Placing your hand against it, or wrapping your hand with the material, you will feel super hot as your body heat is reflected back at you. An IR thermometer will also have trouble reading the temperature of the surface, and will read the temperature of whatever is reflecting off the surface, instead. (You can see the temps of a candle reflecting off the surface as a test, as well as the temps of a glass of ice, as the surface temps of the material, in the reflection.)
All those compact items are awesome, but being compact and lightweight would be the best setup. Luckily, the items are not large and heavy, even though they are individually heavy. The only item that seems like a luxury is the electric griddle cooker. Cast iron cooking stuff is really a luxury to tote around. The best cook-wares would be aluminum and ceramic, for reduced weight, easy cleaning and fast heating with the least fuel or power.
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