Bat House Project

[reality_boy]

It has gotten up to 109 F here, very hot indeed! However my test house is holding up well. There are no signs of warping and there is only a slight discoloration on the plastic.


I did notice that at the hottest time of the day the metal pole is heating up hotter than ambient temperature and radiating heat into the house. I suspect painting the pole white would help. On the flip side in a cold environment painting the pole black probably helps get heat into the house, even on a wooden rocket box. I did not measure this but it was quite warm to the touch, I estimate it was 8 degrees hotter than ambient.


I have my temp sensors all set up, and I made a mount for my test houses. I just need to put the whole thing up and let it run. One problem is that we are only days away from the monsoons kicking in so we now have heavy cloud cover and should be seeing quite a bit or rain for the next few weeks. I really should have put this all up two weeks ago to catch the high point of summer heat...