{"id":336,"date":"2008-01-30T16:47:44","date_gmt":"2008-01-30T21:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/2008\/01\/capitalizing-on-this-wisconsin-weather\/"},"modified":"2022-09-11T00:40:39","modified_gmt":"2022-09-11T00:40:39","slug":"capitalizing-on-this-wisconsin-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/2008\/01\/capitalizing-on-this-wisconsin-weather\/","title":{"rendered":"Capitalizing on this Wisconsin Weather"},"content":{"rendered":"
On Monday, the high temperature was 44°F. On Tuesday, it was 43°F.<\/p>\n
On Wednesday, the high was 3°F.<\/p>\n
Fortunately, Chris had some foresight to capitalize on the warm days. So, he, Jason, Ben, Justin, and I set about getting the thermostat, heater, thermistor and associated wiring up and running for the mister nozzle we added to the fountain this year. After tracing a whole bunch of old wires up and down the fountain, we found that of 6 wires running up the fountain, only 4 still worked.<\/p>\n
…Exactly how many we needed. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
So, after the application of a little elbow grease (mostly on Chris’s part), a lot of volt metering (on all the rest of our parts), some general good engineering principles (:-P), and a little Wisconsin weather, we built this:<\/p>\n