Subaru prepares you for driving in temperature extremes...

[K Frame]

I just found this in my owner's manual...

"This displays the outside temperature between −408F (−408C) and 1228F (508C)"

So, I guess I'm ready for driving either on Mars or the dark side of the moon...


Edit in: Just noticed that that's a typo... -408 F is actually -222 and change C...



But, judging by the other sections in the manual talking about temperature, it looks as if they missed some periods... I think it should actually be -40.8 and 122.8...

[Nick1911]

Makes sense about the missing decimal place.  -40F would convert to -40C.

[K Frame]

Just made me chuckle.

As I told my friend, who is also a Subaru guy, at least I'll know what temperature caused my Forester to melt and catch on fire.

[WLJ]

Will the AC work on Venus?

[K Frame]

Will the AC work on Venus?

Wouldn't see why not... at least until the concentrated sulfuric acid in the atmosphere dissolves, well, everything.

[Fly320s]

I think it is a coding error.  -40 [degree symbol] F to 122 [degree symbol] F.

[HankB]

I thought among the "woke" types things like periods (which look like decimal points) are now considered to be micro aggressions?

Good thing it only goes down to -40 F. If it went to -40 C, there would be trouble.*








* - a little intentional low temp humor there - I'm sure APS members will catch it.  

[RocketMan]

Maybe Musk should have sent a Subaru to Mars instead of a Tesla.

[K Frame]

Whoops. Said Mars, but meant Mercury, where it's just a tad warm most of the time.

[griz]

Edit in: Just noticed that that's a typo... -408 F is actually -222 and change C...

Glad you caught that.  calibration below absolute zero is difficult.

[Jim147]

Gets hard to to pump,that liquid O2 into the lungs.

[230RN]

"8" not "."

"8" be "°"

ETA I didn't notice that Fly320s had pointed this out previously. Thanks, Fly320s.

Rather than cramming unicodes into posts, e-mails, etc, I put a bunch of these symbols into a text file so I could just paste and copy.  I have a desktop shortcut to this file. Here's a sample:

SPECIAL OFT-USED SYMBOLS

degree   °
micro µ
obelus ÷
slashed zero  Ã˜
umlauts Ü, or ü
Ö, or ö,
pilcrow ( ¶ )
section sign ( § )

Simple, easy, works the proverbial "99%" of the time.

It was a revelation to me to discover that -40°C = -40°F back in high school and that for higher temperatures pretty much 9 ÷ 5 was equal to 1-1/2 and 5 ÷ 9 was equal to 1/2  for a rough conversion back and forth between the two scales.  While 5000°F is not really 2500°C it gives you a picture of where you are between the scales with what, an 11% error?

Meh, what's an 11% error between friends?  And at those temperatures, 32 degrees plus or minus is trivial.

Oh, and I got called out once for using "degrees Kelvin" ("°K") for the absolute scale of temperature.  Oopsie !

Nap time.

Terry

[Fly320s]

2500* C  x 2 = 5000.  5000 - 10%(5000) = 4500.  4500 + 32 = 4532.

Google says the same thing.  https://www.google.com/search?q=2500+degrees+celsius&rlz=1C1CHZL_enUS746US747&oq=2500+degr&aqs=chrome.0.0l4j69i57j0l3.6868j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

[Jim147]

With the right resistors you can make your temp read anything you want it to.

[230RN]

2500* C  x 2 = 5000.  5000 - 10%(5000) = 4500.  4500 + 32 = 4532.

Google says the same thing.  https://www.google.com/search?q=2500+degrees+celsius&rlz=1C1CHZL_enUS746US747&oq=2500+degr&aqs=chrome.0.0l4j69i57j0l3.6868j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

Well, the idea was to get a general mental relationship between the two scales (at high values), not for obtaining publication quality values.  Sort of like a yard equals a meter and a quart equals a liter.

All "sorta."

What "kinda" gets to me is in this passion to convert all measurements to physical-constant related units is that sometimes it yeields unwieldy units.
 
Hey, I'm all for that, "in theory" but my favorite example of unwieldyness is Pascals for pressure.

Me, I kind of like "atmospheres" for pressure units (bar) because I can imagine 5 handsful of air compressed into one handful of air as "five atmospheres" (5 bar) of pressure rather than  5 X (1.01325 x 10⁵) Pascals.

Note:

Sure, I'm used to using pico, nano, and microfarads, and even "inches of mercury," but somehow that Pascal unit always amuses me.

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Terry, 230RN