Spent most of yesterday in a return air plenum ceiling.
Anticipate a fair chunk of today being the same.
Thought my new job meant I got to tell other people to do what only a JW electrician (on my shift, me) is allowed to do... Oh.
Never mind. Poop.
Aug. 19 is now the official date - my normal shifts will be Monday through Friday, 8 - 4:30, doing maintenance planning. I still have to cover vacation/sick time for the incoming JW sometimes, but my job will be contractors, vendors, and scheduling my own group.
Until then...
Best I could do for electricians.
Remind me sometime to tell you the story about my SIL surviving contact with a 20,000 volt overhead power wire.
ReplyDelete?!??
DeleteOk, um, ow?
melted shoes
ReplyDeleteThat is a really short story.
Deletemore of a zen koan.
Deletehmpf. No time for stories, Dr. Jones!
DeleteOut to see Foxygen last night, then much darts. Today is Intensive Toilet Operation Mark II.
Geez, I thought a "short" joke about electrocution would elicit at least one chuckle. [resigned sigh]
DeleteSorry OBS, your joke met some resistance. I'm just a neutral regulator here.
DeleteGeez, I thought a "short" joke about electrocution would elicit at least one chuckle.
DeleteMy sister-in-law is not very positive towards them.
I was worried that it would inspire a battery of puns.
ReplyDeleteOT: the Woo-power loon at driftglass just called me "human garbage" because I Googled his favorite term and there are no hits that support his woo. Chuckle.
ReplyDeleteOf course, it's not the first time I've been called names on the interwoos, but this one is Special.
He's a charming one, isn't he? (I'm just assuming it's a "he", seems like they usually are). But I do love that his fellow Greenwaldoes hate that he gives them a bad name.
DeleteAnd what exactly is it with them calling people names? Are we back in kindergarten?
He just keeps returning to the "Free Energy" thing.
DeleteI think I tracked down his idiocy; he read the term somewhere, and interpreted it to refer to a costless, lossless energy source that is easy to tap. Of course, the actual term as used by engineers and physicists is the available energy to do work in a system, after all losses and inefficiencies. And nothing to do, of course, with the source of the energy used.
Out of curiosity, I clicked his name and found that he has been a cob-logger at Skippy The Bush Kangaroo. However, he hasn't posted there in forever, since he got in a fight with another poster by linking a Truther video claiming that there were no planes involved in 9/11.
Heh. I found an interview with the scientist that Loon keeps referring to, and let me tell you there's a VERY rich mine of material casting the Doctor's work in a poor light within.
DeleteIs that the WA guy? How some people get tenure, I'll never figure out.
DeleteBut, but, the government took all of Tesla's papers when he died, man! The Man is withholding the knowledge from Man, man! Attica! Attica!
Deletelinking a Truther video claiming that there were no planes involved in 9/11.
DeleteNerve gas. Lots of invisibilium dioxide. Get with the program.
Is that the WA guy?
Deleteyeah. His experiments are interesting, but far from any practical use; and the interview is chock-full of whackaloonism, including things like claiming that no one knows how muscles contractions work, and some nigh-homeopathy statements.
I am kind of looking forward to tweaking Mr. Woo with these statements, one by one.
Spent most of yesterday in a return air plenum ceiling.
ReplyDeleteBuffy?
More like Invisible Flute Chick Of The Assassins Guild.
DeleteMy primary duty, by hook or by crook, including running extendama cords to the YMCA across the highway if needed, is to maintain specific room temps. Cooling towers/chilled water as well as DX, VFD controlled fans (based on return temp), maintaining static pressures and circulation. We use dropped ceilings as return air plenums, toasty warm with plenty of moving air.
TL;DR - It gets old and dry really fast.
We use dropped ceilings as return air plenums,
ReplyDeleteAs a building designer, I've always considered that to be HVAC cheating.
K, I'm curious - I have never claimed to be an tinknocker, that's why I tend to ask many annoying repetitive questions. Don't want to be too informative, so, in general... I can't think of a way to use permanent return plenums, unless I make all necessary power adjustments based on the return layout (difficult in practice here), but am I costing myself with a ceiling plenum?
Deletenah, I just like mocking HVAC designers. Also, in the historic preservation/ adaptive reuse business, I usually don't use dropped ceilings.
DeleteHVAC designers have to work harder, do more calcs, and be more exacting in balancing a dedicated-return system. The installers get lazy sometimes.
...having said that, it does occur to me that for a standard office layout, ceiling return plenums may make sound isolation between offices a problem.
ReplyDeleteBest I could do for electricians.
ReplyDeleteWhat about "Shock The Monkey"?