Iron Timer

Fourth option. Get your wife an iron with an integrated "auto off" timer. Many irons have this feature. We've got a Sunbeam Ultura 5900 Resilium which has saved my bacon more than once.

We bought an iron that turns itself off if left unused for 5-10mins. Also turns itself off if left flat for >30sec.

Sunbeam I think - approx $90.

Well worth the money, and it's a good iron too. Enjoy a beer with the time you've gained!

-Andrew M

PS if you _really_ want to make something, why not use a silicon accelerometer to detect the orientation/movement of the iron, and turn off when appropriate with a little micro such as a PIC10F204 + triac .... those accelerometers can easily sense inclination/angle and low G movements. See

The whole lot should be do-able for

to turn it off when noone's near? the PIR won't detect an abandoned iron, they move way too slow.

there'sd a bunch of them out there (flexitimer being one that's available from many sources) but you may need to fit a bigger relay to switch the iron.

the flexitimer kit is little more than that (photo looks like a 555 and a ripplecounter) if you use a socketed relay that helps keep the mains voltages away from your circuit...

HMM, the circuit I salvaged from an old pop-up toaster ran fromd 12VAC (orriginally provided by a resistive divider) and the electromagnet it switched could be substituted for a relay,

Good idea, but it needn't be under the ironing board and should work for a "controlled power point" for any purpose. I assume the cheap and readily available units intended to control lights would not be able to handle the current required for an iron. Is there an inexpensive way of boosting the current to five or ten amps?

The best option is FREE. Leave the toilet seat up until she learns to turn the iron off.

Get your wife to turn it off when not using it?

:D

Lucky you, my wife wont use the iron, so its always me that leaves it on.

I think you can buy them for less than $10 at BigW

David

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Wives?

Alf

There is a big button light switch designed for external paths, etc. Push the button and you have power for a certain time. Just mount as end of extension cord. choose one that gioves 15 mins (if they exist)

We've got one of those. Don't move it for a certain periond and it turns off. Well one afternoon I walk buy and felt heat. Yep, the iron had been on all day. So much for that.

I thought they were stacked six high at the dump shop.

They're called 'countdown timers'. Set it to X minutes and it will turn off automatically.

DSE used to sell them. Try Big W etc as the OP suggested.

Na. Wives go for $12.50 down, and all you earn for the rest of your life :-)

David

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