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Remember, it's not safe cybersex unless you're properly grounded...
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Why didn't the old AC stop heating once the room came back up above 60? Was the new AC blowing directly onto the old AC's thermostat?
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speaking of obscure non-metric units... Does anyone but me know what a "ton" is in this context? The amount of energy needed to freeze one short ton (2000 lb ~= 907 kg) of water at its freezing point (i.e. heat of fusion). 12k BTU/hour or 3.516 kW. (that's the rate at which it removes heat from the air, not its own power consumption)
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One time the power in our whole house went out... we very puzzled for a while at how the lights everywhere else on the street were still on. It took a few hours before someone finally thought of checking the main circuit breaker.
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Too bad I never had these adventures, except for phone lines (with the check the cables). Our phones lines are wired by the previous owner/contractor in CAT6 cable plus an extra pair (came in handy later on for CAT6 + a parallel phone line). The phone cables are all connected using what appears to be an industrial-sized electronics breadboard, only it used a different connectors (as to not die over times like breadboard springs do).
Needless to say, it took a while to correct all the weird wiring, standardize the colors, and use the rails instead of running the source wires up and down for all the cables. It was even more fun adding the CAT6 router to the mix, and we cut a few 3ft patch cables in half. :P
Now it looks like spaghetti and it's just a phone board for a residential household with one phone line. We don't even use the CAT6 now that my dad found wifi cards.
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This made me think of a place I worked. The server room was cooled by 3 box fans. 1 was on the floor, 1 was jammed into a rack and the third was in the rails of the drop down ceiling. The cooling system worked fine but looked ghetto as hell.
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nice site
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the city heating system in the cold winter is quite well. It seldomly gets broken, and it is clear and we can wear in the cold winter.
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My AC unit would shut down so much during the day that it drove me crazy. I was prepared to just throw it out when my brother recommended Atlas Trillo in San Jose CA. I’m so happy I listened... They did an amazing job! My AC now works like new! I recommend them for AC servicing, visit their website www.atlastrillo.com.