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  2. Overheating (electricity) - Wikipedia

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    Heat sinks are often attached to portions of the circuit that produce most heat or are vulnerable to heat. Fans are also often used. Some high-voltage instruments are kept immersed in oil. In some cases, to remove unwanted heat, a cooling system like air conditioning or refrigerating heat-pumps may be required.

  3. Glow switch starter - Wikipedia

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    Various types of glow starter. A glow switch starter or glowbottle starter is a type of preheat starter used with a fluorescent lamp. It is commonly filled with neon gas or argon gas and typically contains a bimetallic strip and a stationary electrode. The operating principle is simple, when current is applied, the gas inside ionizes and heats ...

  4. Programmable thermostat - Wikipedia

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    A battery is used to provide back-up during power failures. A rechargeable battery operates the thermostat just as in the clock thermostat, charging when the thermostat is not calling and discharging while the thermostat is calling. A non-rechargeable battery always powers the thermostat. To limit the amount of power drawn from the battery ...

  5. Bimetallic strip - Wikipedia

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    Heat engines are not the most efficient ones, and with the use of bimetallic strips the efficiency of the heat engine is even lower as there is no chamber to contain the heat. Moreover, the bimetallic strips cannot produce strength in its moves, the reason why is that in order to achieve reasonables bendings (movements) both metallic strips ...

  6. Thermostat - Wikipedia

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    Four wires come to the centrally-located thermostat from the main heating/cooling unit (usually located in a closet, basement, or occasionally in the attic): One wire, usually red, supplies 24 volts AC power to the thermostat, while the other three supply control signals from the thermostat, usually white for heat, yellow for cooling, and green ...

  7. Wax thermostatic element - Wikipedia

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    While the thermostat is closed, there is no flow of coolant in the radiator loop, and coolant water is instead redirected through the engine, allowing it to warm up rapidly while also avoiding hot spots. The thermostat stays closed until the coolant temperature reaches the nominal thermostat opening temperature.

  8. Thermoelectric battery - Wikipedia

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    The battery's polarity reverses and the anode becomes the cathode and vice versa. [ 1 ] The system's power density was some maximum power density of 60+-3 1 W m −2 (based on a single electrode), with a maximum energy density of 453 W h m −3 (normalized to the electrolyte volume), substantially higher than that of other liquid-centered ...

  9. Battery pack - Wikipedia

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    A power bank is a portable device consisting of a battery, a charger to interface battery with charging power source and an output interface to provide desired output voltage. [10] Power banks are made in various sizes and typically based on lithium-ion batteries. A power bank contains battery cells and a voltage converter circuitry.