How about the "hotel-style vibrating bed"? Once it jiggles you peacefully into slumberland it can shut off automatically.
> Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2013 16:37:59 -0800 > From: camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM > Subject: Re: 12v programmable timer > To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM > > My 12V timer arrived. The instruction sheet says that the "POWER" > terminals can accept AC or DC. Since there is no mention of polarity, I > I reckon that we got a full wave rectifier there to convert AC to DC. > Obviously the internals run on DC. ICs and suchlike. > > When it is switched on and off, there is an audible "click" from within > the unit. So we have relay contacts. They can handle DC or AC. > > Now that I have satisfied my curiousity, I admit that I am baffled as to > what I can do with this thing. The price was right, but it sits there, > challenging me. > > Everything in my Westy is under manual control, and I like it that way. > I cannot think of anything I'd like to have turn on or off on a schedule > when camping. > > Ideas are invited, but that might be a Friday subject. > > -- > Jack "Rocket j Squirrel" Elliott > 1984 Westfalia, auto trans, > |
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