The heater is a tiny nichrome wire wound on an insulator, self-powered by the 24 VAC of the system’s leads (a sort of energy harvesting) and positioned so it warms the bimetallic strip (Figure 4).

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With the connection broken and the heating coil off the strip rapidly ... due to the force of gravity acting on the bimetallic strip, the output of the regulator will actually change depending ...

An electronic retrofit for pneumatically controlled heating and cooling systems ... Pneumatic thermostats employ a simple bimetallic strip to sense temperature and each must be set manually.

The way this worked is, a bi-metallic spring would heat up as soon as you ... You can see the large curved bimetallic spring mated to the small strip of high resistance spring steel.

THE British Thomson-Houston Co., Ltd., has sent us specimens of a new bimetallic strip for use in thermostatically ... and even on heating the bond will not be broken so long as the temperature ...

You step inside to escape the unbelievable heat, but your home is not the ... older thermostats used mechanical switches, typically a bimetallic strip with a mercury or magnetic switch.