So, loud as fuck smoke detectors don’t get the job done?

To be fair, I don’t think I’ve ever actually bought a space heater. I just get them from places and they’re always from the early 2000s at best. The ones I’ve worked on usually only have a fuse in them as far as safety features go. I’m glad new ones are more safe though because they used to be deathtraps.

It you’re using a relay to turn it on and off then just put like a 90F furnace high limit switch on the air inlet side of the heater and run the control signal for the relay through that high limit switch. That way if the air going into the space heater gets too hot from the room getting too hot or the area around the heater gets too hot from the fan failing, it’ll shut off. Also furnace safeties are cheap, easy to find, and already designed to fail open circuit for safety.

Normally phosgene isn’t quite that deadly. If you catch it full concentration then you’re in for a bad time as your lungs start blistering but that definitely isn’t something that happens from a small leak unless its also in a confined space. I’ve gotten a face full of phosgene a few times on the job and you definitely notice it. Idk what it smells like because to me it just smells like pain. It feels like you just took a huff off a bottle of drain cleaner. If you get hit with enough of it, it’ll leave you short of breath and your chest burning but the only time I ever got hit with that much was the time I took a plasma cutter to an old refrigerant can I had forgotten to purge with nitrogen first while working in a closed garrage.

Suffice it to say, you would definitely know it if you got exposed to any significant amount of phosgene.

Fun fact older refrigerants also broke down into phosgene under high temps. The old school way to identify a compressor burn out was to take a whiff of the refrigerant. If your sinuses started burning from the phosgene then that means you need to do a burn out cleanup.

Newer refrigerants are much more safe, they just break down into hydrogen floride which turns into hydroflouric acid on contact with water. Nothing leaves you quite as invigorated as hydroflouric acid suddenly forming in your lungs, sinuses, throat, and eyes.

Does age make you give worse blowjobs?

It means a Guinness world records judge watched it cum.

You’re over 30?

HVAC-R tech here.

Not sure what you mean about simulating high temps on the thermostat. If you want to trick the thermostat into seeing a higher temp than it is actually at then you would need to find the temp sensor on the thermostat (usually a thermistor) and replace it with something where you can manually control the input like a potentiometer if there was a thermistor there.

If you’re talking about simulating calls from your thermostat to your hvac system, then you can usually do that with just some jumper wires if your hvac system has a built in transformer (almost all new systems do). You just remove the thermostat and jumper the hot wire (R or Rc) to whatever call you want to make.

Edit: I should probably note that if you accidentally jumper anything to ground or to common then you will likely trip the breaker or blow the fuse on your systems transformer. If you do that then you’ll need to find that transformer (usually in the airhandler, assuming a standard residential split system) and reset the breaker or replace that fuse before your system will work again.

My employer may not even need to pitch in because MN has a free tuition program and I don’t think I put in quite enough overtime to put me over the income limit. If I did though then I’m sure my employer would chip in.

Also, same here. I have a habbit of collecting certs and licenses. Being licensed to do electrical work is kind of my white whale in that regard.

Hmm. I do live in a college town and my job does pay well so an electrical engineering degree is not out of the question. I may just go that route. It’s wildly excessive for what I want it for but I like learning anyways. Thank you.

Don’t worry. A lot of places are also trying to privatize their public transportation.

Ah, yes. I too enjoy staging my road tripping vehicle like an interplanetary rocket.

That still requires a turbine to turn the steam into electricity. If turbines are the shortage then nuclear doesn’t solve the shortage.

Same. What joke is it supposed to be?

I can 1v1 a gorilla without weapons easily. I’ll lose and die horribly, but that wasn’t the question.

We still use them all the time in HVAC-R for refrigerant piping. Flare fittings are one of the best and easiest ways to have a reliably leak free but still easily removable connection.

They just want to bring back porno mags because the old gezers keep getting viruses trying to find it on line.

Nah because I’m a transformitive work. My parents didn’t make these gainz. 💪

IMO, better to get laws in place early and refine them over time, than not at all.

So… Move fast and break things?