My psychic powers are a bit drained tonight, so I’m not able to tell where you are reading this from, but heaters are starting to become necessary where I am. I noticed that the main heater in my apartment turns on if I put it anywhere past 50 degrees Fahrenheit (10 degrees Celcius). The apartment was a little chilly, but it definitely wasn’t that cold, so I figured the thermostat needed to be reset.
I opened up the heater’s cover (which had screws as long as my pinky finger for some reason) to look for the reset button and was greated by a blanket of dust and some warning labels. One of the stickers said that the heater was “Equipped with SMART LIMIT,” which is supposed to automatically adjust the thermostat. Great theory, obviously it didn’t work. Another sticker said “Danger!” and gave various warnings. I ignored the top part of the warning (a grammatically incorrect sentence saying “Shock hazard Shut off circuit breaker now!”), because I figured it was just an advertisement. I mean, what else would you put at the top of something besides the obligatory banner ad?
A good jolt to my finger later and I had the dust mostly cleaned up. Let that be a lesson to you: clean your heaters. You don’t have to turn off the power as long as you work with one hand and don’t mind a little excitement though…
