After the fire, they put a machine that sucks impurities from the air on the first floor and the fire floor. These machines show one is 500 degress now(they’ve been running over a week) and the one on my floor is almost 700. It was getting sauna like in the hallway, so I propped open the door to the stairs?
Is this dangerous? If it got too hot wouldn’t it damage the outlets on the floor?
Why aren’t you calling whoever put those machines in? How do you expect us to know any details about this situation with the description you provided?
I called last week, before they started making it too warm around them.
One says its dehumidifier.
And what temperature readout are you reading? I can’t see why an air filter machine would even have a temperature readout, at all. Are you sure it’s not… something else?
(though this is, at least, slightly more coherent than your last thread on the topic)
The top reading is 10,000 something. The bottom, which I assume is the temperature, is 670. The floor feels like a sauna.
Not Really.
“Assume?” Did you ask, when you called, what those readout numbers mean? That is the next step I would recommend – call them again and ask that question.
Are you in charge of anything in that building, or is there someone who is in charge of such things who should be dealing with it? I understand if the building is too warm to be comfortable, but usually there is someone in any building who is responsible to fix things.
670 degrees is slightly warmer than a sauna.
Aside from devices with actual fire in them, like a gas water heater, or ones with something that glows (like an incandescent light bulb), there are very few devices that get as hot as 670 degrees internally. Certainly not a dehumidifier.
Can you give any additional details about the device?
I’m betting those readings are hours of use, so that service checks can be done at the appropriate time.
Try an experiment; set the oven at your house to 670 degrees, or at least as close as you can get. (I think mine tops out at about 550 degrees.) Open the door. I think you’ll find the wave of heat is considerably more than you’re seeing from that dehumidifier.
Theres a few fans. The machine apparently takes impurities out of the air. The door to the stairs has been open til today. Since it closed, the hallway became sauna like, which isn’t good after a point. I put a stopper under the door and opened it and thats relieved the heat…
I feel traumatized from the fire, so everything becomes a worry.
Most appliances rarely reach 10,000 degrees.
It’s a dry heat.
maybe it is Kelvin
maybe it’s CFMs.
I didn’t think the top numbers were temperature.
It could be Rankine. 670 °R is only the boiling point of water.
But the original 500R is barely above freezing.
@SuntanLotion, if you post a picture of what you’re looking at it would be helpful.
Even if you just let us know the Brand/Model, it would help us decipher what’s going on.
I was working on a reply right before the original thread was closed that involved something about what units the temperatures were in. Something like.
DegF : Iffy
DegC : get the fuck out