Date:         Wed, 11 Dec 2013 18:25:48 -0800
Reply-To:     Alistair Bell <albell@SHAW.CA>
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From:         Alistair Bell <albell@SHAW.CA>
Subject:      Re: What to do with a : 12v programmable timer
Comments: To: Geneva Saint-Amour <genevasaintamour@HOTMAIL.COM>
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A programmable vanagon vibrator! I need people like you working at Bell industries.

:)

Alistair



> On Dec 11, 2013, at 6:18 PM, Geneva Saint-Amour <genevasaintamour@HOTMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> 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,