Can You Damage A ClimateLine Hose By Washing It?

KenTheriot wrote:I've been wondering if my climateLine hose is even working anymore. I can't seem to feel any heat from it. I don't even remember if I'm supposed to be able to. I have washed it the same way I've always washed hoses, which is to say that the ends do get wet. But since there are metal sensors there, can getting them wet damage the hose?

tortoisegirl wrote:I was told it can be fully submerged, just to be sure the metal contacts are dry before reattaching it. Even at max heat the hose barely feels warm to me. Best wishes.

chunkyfrog wrote:As long as the machine recognizes the hose, it is probably all right.
Electricity baffles me, so using a multimeter is not my thing.

Today's scientific question is:

What in the world is electricity and where does it go after it leaves the toaster?

Here is a simple experiment that will teach you an important electrical lesson: On a cool dry day, scuff your feet along a carpet, then reach your hand into a friend's mouth and touch one of his dental fillings. Did you notice how your friend twitched violently and cried out in pain? This teaches one that electricity can be a very powerful force, but we must never use it to hurt others unless we need to learn an important lesson about electricity.

It also illustrates how an electrical circuit works. When you scuffed your feet, you picked up batches of "electrons", which are very small objects that carpet manufacturers weave into carpet so that they will attract dirt. The electrons travel through your bloodstream and collect in your finger, where they form a spark that leaps to your friend's filling, then travel down to his feet and back into the carpet, thus completing the circuit.

AMAZING ELECTRONIC FACT:
If you scuffed your feet long enough without touching anything, you would build up so many electrons that your finger would explode! But this is nothing to worry about unless you have carpeting.

Although we modern persons tend to take our electric lights, radios, mixers, etc. for granted, hundreds of years ago people did not have any of these things, which is just as well because there was no place to plug them in. Then along came the first Electrical Pioneer, Benjamin Franklin, who flew a kite in a lightning storm and received a serious electrical shock. This proved that lightning was powered by the same force as carpets, but it also damaged Franklin's brain so severely that he started speaking only in incomprehensible maxims, such as, "A penny saved is a penny earned." Eventually he had to be given a job running the post office.

After Franklin came a herd of Electrical Pioneers whose names have become a part of our electrical terminology : Myron Volt, Mary Louise Amp, James Watt, Bob Transformer etc. These pioneers conducted many important electrical experiments. Among them, Galvani discovered (this is the truth) that when he attached two different kinds of metal to the leg of a frog, an electrical current developed and the frog’s leg kicked even though it was no longer attached to the frog, Galvani’s discovery led to enormous advances in the field of amphibian medicine. Today, skilled veterinary surgeons can take a frog that has been seriously injured or killed, implant pieces of metal in its muscles, and watch it hop back into the pond – where it sinks like a stone.

But the greatest Electrical Pioneer of them all was Thomas Edison, who was a brilliant inventor despite the fact that he had little formal education and lived in New Jersey. Edison's first major invention in 1877 was the phonograph, which could soon be found in thousands of American homes, where it basically sat until 1923, when the record was invented. But Edison's greatest achievement came in 1879 when he invented the electric company. Edison's design was a brilliant adaptation of the simple electrical circuit: the electric company sends electricity through a wire to a customer, then immediately gets the electricity back through another wire, then (this is the brilliant part) sends it right back to the customer again.

This means that an electric company can sell a customer the same batch of electricity thousands of times a day and never get caught, since very few customers take the time to examine their electricity closely. In fact, the last year any new electricity was generated was 1937.

Today, thanks to men like Edison and Franklin, and frogs like Galvani's, we receive almost unlimited benefits from electricity. For example, in the past decade scientists have developed the laser, an electronic appliance so powerful that it can vaporize a bulldozer 2000 yards away, yet so precise that doctors can use it to perform delicate operations to the human eyeball, provided they remember to change the power setting from "Bulldozer" to "Eyeball."

Sir NoddinOff wrote:With the Phillips Respironics machines you can switch to classic mode for the humidifier and that really cranks out the heat and humidity - so much so that I use one and a half tanks of water a night (literally). Not everybody is into those temps and moisture but if you need PR's 'classic mode' this option is a blessing.

KenTheriot wrote:Palerider, thanks for that post! I laughed hysterically at that explanation of electricity - very Dave Barry-esqe.

tortoisegirl wrote: I'm curious if anyone has had a chance to compare PR & Resmed and if one or the other is able to put out more humidity than the other? Best wishes.

KenTheriot wrote:I've been wondering if my climateLine hose is even working anymore. I can't seem to feel any heat from it. I don't even remember if I'm supposed to be able to. I have washed it the same way I've always washed hoses, which is to say that the ends do get wet. But since there are metal sensors there, can getting them wet damage the hose?

Thanks.

Ken