[Noisebridge-discuss] 2169 door

[Joel Jaeggli]

Jonathan Lassoff wrote:
> Excerpts from Dr. Jesus's message of Mon Oct 26 13:46:23 -0700 2009:
>> Energizing the door solenoid with a high duty cycle makes it smell like fire.
> 
> Yeah... sometimes it seems to buzz for quite a while. Though the times
> I've been down there, it hasn't smelled as far as I could tell.
> 
> Does smelling like fire mean something is burning? 

door strike solenoids are not exactly high current devices so it
shouldn't be heating insulation unless something is really wrong. I'd be
suspicious that it's a low voltage ac device and it's been wired to 110...

> Should we be working
> towards building in some protection into how long the "open door" button
> is triggered?
> 
> --j
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