# Machines overheating?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/machines-overheating/973789
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [October 25, 2022, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/machines-overheating/973789 "2022-10-25T22:30:14Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2022, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/machines-overheating/973789/1 "2022-10-25T22:30:14Z")
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?
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### Author:  [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2022, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/machines-overheating/973789/2 "2022-10-25T22:32:26Z")
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?
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### Author:  [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2022, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/machines-overheating/973789/3 "2022-10-25T22:34:24Z")
I called last week, before they started making it too warm around them.
One says its dehumidifier.
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### Author:  [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2022, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/machines-overheating/973789/4 "2022-10-25T22:54:25Z")
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)
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### Author:  [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2022, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/machines-overheating/973789/5 "2022-10-25T22:58:59Z")
The top reading is 10,000 something. The bottom, which I assume is the temperature, is 670. The floor feels like a sauna.
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### Author:  [@dougrb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougrb)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2022, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/machines-overheating/973789/6 "2022-10-25T23:42:36Z")
> [@Chronos](#):
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> (though this is, at least, slightly more coherent than your last thread on the topic)
Not Really.
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### Author:  [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2022, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/machines-overheating/973789/7 "2022-10-25T23:42:51Z")
“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.
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### Author:  [@Dr.Strangelove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Strangelove)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2022, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/machines-overheating/973789/8 "2022-10-26T00:15:29Z")
> [@SuntanLotion](#):
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> The floor feels like a sauna.
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?
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### Author:  [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2022, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/machines-overheating/973789/9 "2022-10-26T00:18:49Z")
I’m betting those readings are hours of use, so that service checks can be done at the appropriate time.
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### Author:  [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2022, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/machines-overheating/973789/10 "2022-10-26T00:25:13Z")
> [@SuntanLotion](#):
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> The top reading is 10,000 something. The bottom, which I assume is the temperature, is 670. The floor feels like a sauna.
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.
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### Author:  [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2022, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/machines-overheating/973789/11 "2022-10-26T00:38:49Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2022, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/machines-overheating/973789/12 "2022-10-26T01:12:56Z")
> [@SuntanLotion](#):
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> The top reading is 10,000 something.
Most appliances rarely reach 10,000 degrees.
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### Author:  [@dougrb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougrb)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2022, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/machines-overheating/973789/13 "2022-10-26T01:16:13Z")
It’s a dry heat.
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### Author:  [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2022, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/machines-overheating/973789/14 "2022-10-26T01:18:18Z")
maybe it is Kelvin
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### Author:  [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2022, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/machines-overheating/973789/15 "2022-10-26T01:20:29Z")
maybe it’s CFMs.
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### Author:  [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2022, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/machines-overheating/973789/16 "2022-10-26T01:21:32Z")
I didn’t think the top numbers were temperature.
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### Author:  [@Dr.Strangelove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Strangelove)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2022, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/machines-overheating/973789/17 "2022-10-26T01:22:05Z")
It could be Rankine. 670 °R is only the boiling point of water.
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### Author:  [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2022, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/machines-overheating/973789/18 "2022-10-26T01:25:01Z")
But the original 500R is barely above freezing.
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### Author:  [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2022, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/machines-overheating/973789/19 "2022-10-26T01:29:31Z")
@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.
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### Author:  [@dougrb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougrb)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2022, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/machines-overheating/973789/20 "2022-10-26T01:29:50Z")
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
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