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    Door Thermostats With PLC

    Bigleo & Washvac, The guy was asking about adapting common garage door openers such as Genie, Liftmaster, Stanley, Multicode, Allstar, Carper, Skylink, and Sears Craftsman. What specific wires would a person tap into on these types of door openers? mike
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    Door Thermostats With PLC

    Buzzie, I don't think there is one solution for within a camera control system but a separate program from an ethernet ported PLC would allow a separate window & program to be running simultaneously. Bubbles, BigLeo & others, I had a guy recently ask me if there was an easy way to also...
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    Paloma ph-28 error code

    John, Hopefully, there is a specifically Poloma expert on the forum to assist you. Not to change the subject too much on your POLOMA trouble shooting process ... last week the Hartford insurance boiler inspector told me that many of the tankless units don't meet government code. Did you or...
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    Vac shuts off after 5 seconds

    Scott, I am assuming that you use mercury relays to offload the higher amperage vac motor current. If so, to save time ... I would take my Klein dual voltage non contact voltage tester on the wires to see at what point in your wiring where you are getting the drop off of voltage. If that was...
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    Hurricane Sandy?

    I wonder how the car washes in the path of hurricane Sandy are doing? mike
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    Tankless Water Heater For Floor Heat

    continued from last post ... Summertime, our dog wash & our laundromat is cooled with our icy inlet water being preheated on the way to our heat exhanged domestic storage tanks. There again .... primary & secondary flows are definitely a factor. The key is keeping the initial & ongoing...
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    Tankless Water Heater For Floor Heat

    2Biz, Thanks for the links. Our intricate hydronic system uses a few Spirec heat exchangers & we have to be careful that our boilers are never starved for water. In our case, we are heating 3 zones for our laundromat & back rooms etc. ... besides the zone for our overhead unit heaters in our...
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    A few new O taxes

    Bill & others, The movie did show items that we should all be concerned about ... it certainly was worth watching to help offset some of the intrinsically evil beliefs presented by the other side. Several of my mother's aunts & uncles & many first cousins were stuck behind in the iron curtain...
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    A few new O taxes

    Bill, Below is one of the many Lulus that I spotted within your first link. "The Obamacare Medical Device Tax begins to be assessed on January 1, 2013. Medical device manufacturers employ 409,000 people in 12,000 plants across the country. This law imposes a new 2.3% excise tax on gross sales...
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    Vending Aluminum Cans of Pop etc?

    Has anyone else besides us noticed that the aluminum cans made in the last few years ... appear to be made of lighter aluminum making more frequency of the cans breaking on the way down to the final delivery area? We have a 50+ selection AMS that I believe is similar to SureVend & because of...
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    Credit Card acceptance at changer

    Bigjws, I am pretty sure you that you would be at high risk for opportunists to come along & seeing that they could rack up rewards & frequent flyer mileage on their credit cards ... you would get hit with non customers on the easily swapped quarters for face value hard cash at most banks...
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    Doctor Diagnoses Obama In One Sentence

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRGq5ZSJ3Ys&feature=youtu.be The above is the corrected usable link.
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    Doctor Diagnoses Obama In One Sentence

    Below is her whole speech. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRGq5...ature=youtu.be Whenever politicians of either party don't listen properly & ignore or distort the facts, they should have people like this "true grit" Illinois woman doctor shed proper & accurate light ... so our country as...
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    Chip Enabled Credit Card Readers

    wow ... that certainly gives us a hint of the sometimes volatile "moving target" nature of technology!
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    Mars VS Coinco

    Todd & others, I have both the Vantage & the 2600. I have wondered if the Coinco Vantage is slightly more water resistant than the Mars??? mike
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    Tankless Water Heater For Floor Heat

    2Biz, I wonder if the following unit's own built in circulator would mean the unit's circulation would be taken care of ... eliminationg the need to buy a Taco 009 pump...
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    Vac hose color and size

    copper, Not sure on color, but I believe there is a conscensus among us veterans that you do not want to go with 1.5" because of the increased number of plugs you will get. We started out with 1.5" but have used 2" for over 25 years. mike
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    Tankless Water Heater For Floor Heat

    Something to consider Most people are not aware that more glycol causes a loss of heat transfer with the same input BTU expenditure. I myself was surprised when I first saw a mechanical engineering trade journal article showing the proof etc. a few years ago. Something to consider ...
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    In-Bay RFID

    Mmurra & Diamond, Just a thought, but is seems like it is possible that in some locales the customers may become the type for whatever reason (hyperactive?) ... who see a real bargain in the unlimited format for one monthly fee. When that happens ... I could envision them possibly making it...
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    Credit Card acceptance at changer

    bigjws, The most straightforward way I know of would be for you to help me lobby :) the growing ATM industry to give us the option to also give out a specified number of dollar coins besides just $5 bills like we have been successfully doing for over 1.5 years now. Of course, I really do...
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