Recent content by Clark1

I have designed a lot of things that get plugged into the walls in a lot of countries. There are some horrible requirements if it is medical equipment. They don't want the patient getting shocked. Military has EMP for when atomic bombs go off in the upper atmosphere, and TEMPEST requirements...

Now the baby has grown up, and he is a hard working do-good-er software engineer. He saves all his money. He does not drink. I think he may have suffered brain damage in utero.

Whenever I use the word "hysteresis", I loose my audience. In temperature control, hysteresis is the pump turning on at one temp, and not turning back off until it is a few degrees cooler. This keeps the pump from turning on and off too often and running for a very short time. The...

The inside of Quaffer's box reminds me of 1972 I was 21 and got a job as a bartender at Shakey's Pizza for $2/hour. When the beer tap went dry, I was to go in the walk in cooler and take the empty keg off the shelf and lift up a full one. I weighed 135 pounds, and there was some serious huffing...

1) Is the Love temp controller just for the fan? Or was the yellow wire to the compressor originally connected the original thermostat? [Walk me through the theory of operation.] 2) Are those objects outside the compressor compartment; cable, controller, thermistor, fan, and fan cable...