Tag: timtearsitapart
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Tim Tears It Apart: Kidde KN-COB-B Carbon Monoxide Alarm
Of course it happens this way: stuff works for you, but breaks as soon as you have guests and drives them crazy. In this case, the missus and I were out of the house having a baby and her folks were in to hold down the fort. A carbon monoxide detector had failed in the…
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Tim Tears It Apart: Honeywell R8184 Oil-fired boiler controller
Its official designation is “R8184 Intermittent Ignition Oil Primary”. “But Tiiiim! That sounds booooorrrring. Why this thing, and not one of those fancy cloud-enabled thermostats containing more RAM than the desktop computer you had in college and not less than five processors capable of running Angry Birds at a playable framerate?” Yes, excitement-wise this one…
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Tim Tears It Apart: Sensitech TempTale4(R) data logger
One of these devices appeared in a large shipment of temperature-sensitive raw materials at my work, amid a pile of dry ice chips. While I don’t know the MSRP or actual retail price of this gadget, the shipper packs one in with every order and tacks on $60-70 for it as a line-item; nonreturnable as…
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A new feature: “Tim Tears It Apart”!
So, as you might have guessed, I’m an electronics engineer, and I like to tear things apart – especially gadgets. I don’t usually post about it, because a) someone else has probably already posted a teardown of that gadget, and b) I’m lazy as balls. But then I realized a good teardown is not all…