Thursday 4 July 2013

Poof!

The plumbers were at it again tonight; prototyping their mushroom section pilot light and poofers.

The main problem appeared to be the pilot light. Last week we tested putting the pilot light on the end of a 10' pole. This week we added the hood. Problem was, whenever the pilot light was placed too high up in the hood, the build-up of exhaust gases would snuff out the flame.

Pilot light




Spent a lot of the night trying various combinations but didn't successfully resolve the problem.

The sex-a-poof however was working fine. This is made up of a regulated gas supply which supplies and accumulator bottle that feeds six solenoid valves.

Sex-a-poof accumulator




These solenoid valves control the release of gas and are operated by an electrical switching mechanism.


Poofer control box


The gas then feeds to a nozzle that releases onto the pilot light resulting in an explosion of gas.

Nozzle set-up


Poof!






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