Technology ConnectionsI made a timely video.
https://youtu.be/PnJZSk4JHFM
https://youtu.be/PnJZSk4JHFM
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Dan Sugalski@TechConnectify That's a switch from past subjects.
adlerweb // BitBastelei@TechConnectify It's about time, right?
Cai@adlerweb @TechConnectify You clocked in just ahead of me with this joke.
@cai And I noticed just now @TechConnectify already included the joke in the subtitles. Guess its somewhat timeless.
Topslakr@TechConnectify Having clicked through... I see what you did there.
Travis@TechConnectify timely.. I see what you did there!
Aaron@TechConnectify glad to see you have an outlet for this topic
mutax@TechConnectify in THIS economy? Let's talk about timing!
Matt T@TechConnectify perfect time to enjoy a video about timers!
Drooling Fan Girl@TechConnectify
This was the earliest that I could find mentioned.
“At some point in 1921, the light went out automatically for the first time in the stairwell of an apartment building in Stuttgart. The trigger was the swivel switch, the time switch with which Paul Schwenk had just started his own apparatus manufacture. Nobody yet knows the name, but building automation is born. It is the hour of birth of Theben.”
https://www.theben.de/the-company-en-gb/history/100-years-theben/
кадмій@TechConnectify my favorite toys for pretending I'm still home
squeakyearsThe spam bots are trying something I haven't seen before. Is it just me, or is this new?
Will Bramlett@TechConnectify I woke up this morning knowing my shift at work was five hours later than on a normal Wednesday thinking, "man, I could really use a Technology Connections video today." Hopefully my neighbors didn't hear my joy when I saw this.
@TechConnectify I am even more excited about this one because my company still uses one of these boxes for the store’s front signage lights. At least at the first store I managed which is slightly older than the mall I currently at which just uses a light switch.
antifa supersoldier@TechConnectify Oh, youuuuu.
V_Mags_Fox 🏳️⚧️:3@TechConnectify I’ve got an Intermatic Time-All that’s so old, it looks like a small tv. Can do one On and Off per day via rotating spring tabs.
Finnley Dolfin@TechConnectify Oof… must resist urge to go on rant about these.
Jason Petersen (he)@FinnleyDolfin @TechConnectify im not an electrician by any stretch, but I thought wall switches usually go to some length to prevent arcing as you turn them on or off… the distances in some of these don’t appear to consider that?
@TechConnectify @jason my problem with these is both the mechanical and digital versions emit some noise. The mechanical ones have some constant grinding/chewing sound. The digital ones have a constant high pitch warble. Both drive me crazy.
To your point, I’m sure as long as they have the UL logo on there it’s safe. But who knows when ordering online these days.
Justin Reiners@TechConnectify thanks for the content, I always look forward to your videos.
C_Chell@TechConnectify Simple and instructive video.
At home to keep some low use battery powerd devices I use 2 timer in series, the firse works only third of a day (8 hours) and the other 15 minutes only, with that, the devices are powered only 15 minutes each 3 days.
At home to keep some low use battery powerd devices I use 2 timer in series, the firse works only third of a day (8 hours) and the other 15 minutes only, with that, the devices are powered only 15 minutes each 3 days.
rai@TechConnectify
yay! I bought one of these a couple years ago and wondered if you would talk about them someday!
yay! I bought one of these a couple years ago and wondered if you would talk about them someday!
jaseg@TechConnectify Listening to that enumeration of power sources for clocks made me wonder, has anyone ever powered a clock with a combustion engine?
Hubert Chathi@TechConnectify @jaseg There are steam-powered clocks: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_cl… Presumably some of those get their steam by burning things.
Coprolite9000@TechConnectify
Reminds me that there was a mechanical, rotary time switch mounted on a wall in my old flat - in my years of living there, I never did figure out what it was attached to...
(Place was built in ~2008. I'm now wondering if it's a common US thing - it was next to a massive GE washer-drier thingy.)
HansvR@TechConnectify And, in spite of all advances in technology, time is still relative.
Cegorach@TechConnectify mechanical timers are great.
I'd actually use them, if those motors wouldn't produce noise 24/7. So digital it is for me!
(also I'm now somewhat hooked onto home automation - so now everything is always digital for me, comes at double the price and I'm constantly switching batteries and wondering why nothing works. FUN!)
Nick@TechConnectify "the right tool for the right job" - Advice I have lived my life by. Not everything needs to be a part of my smartphone. These things do exactly what they need to do, all without joining the ever-growing IOT.
Gasper Zejn@TechConnectify Hard to beat the mechanical ones at their user interface. Brutally simple.
Michael Downey 
@TechConnectify Had this exact model; thanks for the memories!
Rokosun@TechConnectify
This is great, thanks for sharing :)
This is great, thanks for sharing :)
Jackal@TechConnectify
At 13:39 in the video I heard - 'Phositicated' :)
At 13:39 in the video I heard - 'Phositicated' :)
Tommy__T__@TechConnectify found this during a refurb of a UK home, for the central heating. At least the had places to store the pins! I wish I had saved it from the scrapheap to open up and investigate it more