Re: Micromodules....

["andy_powell_is" <ukha@xxxxxxx>]

Tie a piece of string to the iron at one end and your foot at the 
other... you'd only walk away once :P

Andy

--- In ukha_d@y..., Scott Crowther <scrowther@i...> wrote:
> take it one step further and put a motion sensor in the iron
> so when its been stationary and horizontal for a fixed period 
> (say 20secs) it automatically powers off.
> 
> press a switch to reset.
> 
> that way it'll stop house fires if you leave the iron in a 
horizontal
> position on your ironing board...
> 
> 
> 
> Scott Crowther
> Intamac Systems Ltd
> 
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> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ian Lowe [mailto:ian@w...]
> Sent: 01 May 2002 15:32
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Re: Micromodules....
> 
> 
> It's a safety thing Andy. I had a situation where friends over for
the
> evening would leave the coffee maker on, and if we had a few too 
many
> glasses of wine, we came downstairs in the morning to the smell of
hideously
> burnt coffee in a dried out pot..
> 
> add an AM10, and force the unit off at 11pm, hey presto, no more 
coffee
> disasters.
> 
> I would love to have plugtop modules, and be able to flag certain 
items as
> "heat safety" items, to be switched off after a certain
period. 
what would
> be great was some sort of intelligent local control.. so, it 
flashes the
> power light and beeps, or something, to show it's about to switch 
off..
> press a button to cancel...
> 
> that sort of thing ;)
> 
> Ian.
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andy Bovingdon [mailto:bov@t...]
> Sent: 01 May 2002 15:03
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Re: Micromodules....
> 
> 
> > > When you use an AM12 for something portable like an hoover,
when
> > you've
> >
> > You ARE going to have a problem using any type of module with
a
> > hoover. A hoover WILL generate line noise and probably block
your
> > signal.
> 
> What the hell are you going to do with a module on a vacuum
cleaner?
> Or an iron for that matter? Are you a compulsive cleaner and you
> need the computer to stop you once in a while?
> 
> 
> 
> 
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