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History of the Water Feeder and Low-Water Cutoff
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History of the Water Feeder and Low-Water Cutoff
History of the Water Feeder and Low-Water Cutoff
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my auto water feeder on my home furnace keep running every two days and its shut off. my boiler is always half full. my water bill has not increased and there are no signs of water inside or out. what could be the problem?0
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Basically all of our safety devices came about after things went horribly wrong.0
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Any chance you might be able to put a date on that memo? If it's prior to 1947, you could have an interesting tidbit of history there showing an early use of the term bug to describe an engineering flaw.0
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Kurt, he didn't date it.Retired and loving it.0
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The "bug" story I am aware of is the first major computer built for the end of WW2, maybe used for D-day plans etc.
The maze of electric mechanical relays used would fail because of bugs seeking the warmth of the coil heat. Thus the term of "getting the bugs out". ..........fact or Urban legend?0 -
Transmitters used to use thyratrons in their power supplies and they are mercury based so they glow ultraviolet. That glow drives bugs crazy, do you know what happens when a nice fat but goes splat against a tube that is running at 4-500 degrees?
It lets the smoke out.
BobSmith G8-3 with EZ Gas @ 90,000 BTU, Single pipe steam
Vaporstat with a 12oz cut-out and 4oz cut-in
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I have a kid's book about some of the crazy ways things were invented by Ira Flatow. It's a really good book, simply written, with some hilarious stories.
I believe the "First Computer Bug" story that JUGHNE related is pretty accurate. The book has pictures of the engineer/operator's logbook entries detailing the failure, finding the bug (a moth) beaten to death in some relay contacts, and the actual moth taped to the page.
Great book. I'll see if I can find it and snap a pic.Ford Master Technician, "Tinkerer of Terror"
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Grace Hopper and the Harvard Mark II https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_bug#/media/File:H96566k.jpg2
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Still waiting as far as I have seen.
hvacfreak
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Burnham MST 396 , 60 oz gauge , Tigerloop , Firomatic Check Valve , Mcdonnell Miller 67 lwco , Danfoss RA2k TRV'sEasyio FG20 Controller
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