???? We're talking about air temperature and its variation with the weather, seasons and times of day.
???? We're talking about air temperature and its variation with the weather, seasons and times of day.
When it's so cold (as well here in the far North), the local temperature differences can be several degrees C (about double that in F).
Today, I had a difference of 5C between two thermometers checked to be similarly calibrated, on different sides of the house.
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How about edge lighting it with the tritium dots?
You'll probably get into code violations.
The rule on weather stations is to get all of 'em into the SAME protection, not to put some next to buildings. Yes, that means more extreme swings than sheltered sites, because it means higher bandwidth (quicker response).
The stations are manufactured, but the extremes are measured. Try not to confuse those two M-words in future.
I've stood on a mountaintop, and believe me, the effect of a roof can be a BIG temperature effect. Treetops are a kind of roof, and so is an adjacent building.
They aren't very bright, and the clear glass will TIR the light without deflecting it out.
Code?
-- John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc trk jlarkin att highlandtechnology dott com
As in a world of hurt if someone gets injured.
does the US wiring code really prohibit an on-off switch followed by a full/dim switch?
NT
I was specifically referring to the leakage path around the switch but in more general terms, everything that touches the wiring system has to be listed. Kludges are frowned upon.
I can't see how putting a film cap across a switch in a junction box is going to hurt anybody. Slamming into a big sheet of glass in the dark might.
-- John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc trk jlarkin att highlandtechnology dott com
1) unlisted device 2) current leakage path around a switch 3) wet room 4) NEC doesn't cover a stubbed nose or toes.
They would have to be glow-in-the-dark decals, strontium aluminate to hold up all night.
-- John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc trk jlarkin att highlandtechnology dott com
To dump needlessly onto almond groves, right?
Suck-o-dat river dry. Doesn't matter if you really need it or not... law says it ours, so we're takin' it!
The real test would be to place a kill-a-watt tracking switch in the line *before* the dimmer/lamp circuit, and see what is actually getting used at each set point.
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Where is the wall switch at that turns it on? Or if a permanent dimming is desired, place a pre-set dimmer right on the line and hang it inside the wall.
More likely the wire that feeds the "overhead" portion of that stall is actually accessible in a nearby verticle wall. So if one is not present, you could add a switch/dimmer.
Don't forget elevational differentials.
The temp "station" might be on a TV station's antenna mast.
Three miles away, at about a 150 foot drop into the "valley", the same "region" sees a lower temp. My cell phone is usually off a few.
I have a little IR reader though, and pointing it at a dormant building wall gets me a good number.
I was not so lucky. A dimmer that ran 2 lamps that I had replaced with LEDs took out both LED replacements. I replaced the dimmer with a standard switch. Don't like dimmers anyway. Have had a couple that were very noisy in the HF radio band.
XY self-healing film cap, spec'd to go across the AC line.
That's the whole point!
?5) Compulsive need to follow rules.
There's a good bumper sticker
QUESTION AUTHORITY
which inspired a better one
IGNORE AUTHORITY
-- John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc trk jlarkin att highlandtechnology dott com
I just installed a 5-light fixture in another bathroom, and used dimmable LEDs, with the old dimmer. Works file. Every time I've used dimmable LEDs with an old cheap triac dimmer, it's worked fine.
I do buy the better LED lamps, like the Philips.
-- John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc trk jlarkin att highlandtechnology dott com
There's a good book about a person without whom this nation may never have formed as it did.
Defeating the switch. Using it in a way it wasn't designed to work, thus invalidating it's listing.
You don't have running water in your bathroom? This is an outhouse?
Where the NEC is concerned, sure. Fire and electrocution are nothing to mess with.
Go directly to jail. Do not pass GO. Do not collect $200.
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