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

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