If it oscillates that fast, it might not feel very different from a normal shower
This could be better than existing pressure balance based mixing systems, assuming it allows you to adjust the hot vs cold pulse width
Thermostatic is dead. Embrace thermovariable.
I currently need to replace my showers mixing valve. When will this product be available?
Pulse Water Modulation
Unfortunately it is stuck at 10⁻¹⁴M and a gamma producer.
I was in a band called Extreme Sensory Hell Shower.
We randomly switched between German Schlager, Doom Metal, Muzak, Swing, Acid Jazz, Reggae, Polka, Latin Dance, Bluegrass, and Hard House WITHIN tracks to make sure that nobody was ever having a positive experience for more than a few seconds at a time.
And no, we weren't especially proficient or even enthusiastic about any of the genres.
A temperature knob could be added to control the pulse width. Get this shower to everyone who designed LED lighting with PWM frequency below 100 Hz.
So you can actually do LED lighting that doesn’t cause PWM headaches. It’s just cheaper not to.
So the concerns related to LED frequencies are real?
I saw some chatter about them causing headaches, eye strain, and disturbing circadian rhythms, but I hadn't looked further into it to see if it was legit or a "you should use red light on your balls" health influencer type of thing.
I would get headaches from watching PAL (50Hz) CRT TVs for a long time. 60Hz monitors were noticeably better, and 75 or more was good to endure all day. Modern screens don't go blank between refreshes (except PWM-based AMOLED) so the refresh rate is mostly irrelevant unless you want to shave off a few milliseconds of latency for serious gaming (then it's best to match the refresh, render FPS and video signal).
But as I'm walking down the street and move my eyes, I notice cheap lighting whose drivers don't smooth the 100Hz ripple of rectified AC. Especially if they reach 0% brightness during the ripple. This applies to:
So yeah, it's not unhealthy, especially above 60 Hz. But it's annoying for me to look around badly smoothed Christmas lights. And if they are of different phases (this is uncommon for Christmas lights (and even impossible in most American homes because they have 180° aka split-phase 240 V, not 120° 400 V) but always the case with multiplexed displays), I say a long rolling R to vibrate my face and see them wiggle.
Fuck PWM
All my homies hate PWM
Signed: DC dimming gang
My gf has been dealing with this with her shower for the past 2 weeks without any extra device. Showering there is an experience.
I once touched an experiment in the form of a metal wire coil where each alternative loop was hot and the other cold. It felt superhot instead. I feel like this would be similar.
SUPER
HOT
You can recreate this with sausages or some cooked vegetables. We do it at science fairs.
Set them up in an alternating pattern of cold, hot, cold, hot. Let somebody place their arm on top. They'll feel like they just got a severe burn, even though they're fine and the sausages are not hot enough to cause any harm.
I can make this worse. The Katy Perry song Hot N Cold starts playing full blast every time you turn the shower on.
I can make it better by changing it to Heart and Soul by Huey Lewis and the News. Which does contain the lyric, “She’s hot and cold” but also contains the lyric, “hot lovin’ every night,” and so is infinitely better.
That’s from their album Sports! It has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consummate professionalism that really gives the songs a big boost.
Is that the scene where Batman kills the Joker with an axe?
He’s been compared to Elvis Costello, but I think Huey has a far more bitter, cynical sense of humor.
I never quite got this monologue. I think the idea was that the character was reciting someone else’s review of these musicians, as if it were his own sophisticated take. But in what world is Huey Lewis at all bitter and cynical especially compared to Elvis Costello?
Patrick and his clique are a bunch of superficial morons who have no idea what they're talking about a lot of the time. They blindly follow popular trends, do what everyone else does and say what everyone else says. They have no personal opinions and are too shallow to form any. Guy probably sat down and wrote that "analysis" by imitating other people's reviews of other media, and then memorized it to recite at people. The discussion they have at that dinner is like that too. They're just regurgitating rehearsed and memorized statements about some social issues they clearly know nothing about and don't care at all.
why would hot n cold playing (good) make the extreme sensory hell shower (good) worse?
“Worse” means better. It’s Gen Alpha slang. It’s like sick, bad, nasty, gnarly, phat, etc
Add some menthol and capsaicin to the body wash too, just for an extra "fuck you" even after the shower.
A parallel universe where William Osman still post in his main channel:
This but with an acid and a base
truly chaotic neutral
I oscillate between chaotic good and chaotic evil. Like the shower. You just witnessed a chaotic evil idea.
Guess your final pH when you switch off the shower.
Probably varies wildly by body part
I once had a shower that did this on its own.
I figured that’s the joke, isn’t it?
Also, I’m in the same boat. My current one does it whenever someone uses water elsewhere in the flat.
If you want cursed showers you should see how Latin America provides hot water to their showers
Alternating hot and cold can actually be good.
It's invigorating. - Have you never jumped from a hottub into a cold pool or vice versa?
I believe it can also help with soreness.
It can also give you cardiac arrest!
Just about anything can give you cardiac arrest if you're unhealthy.
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