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Blog Archive » Instant whole house hot water recirculation system by Watts. In this video I install and review an instant whole house hot water recirculation system by Watts.

Blog Archive » Instant whole house hot water recirculation system by Watts

The system is designed to cycle water from your water heater to a select faucet so that you have instant hot water at each faucet. If you pick a faucet that is the farthest from your heater you have a good chance that all your taps will have instant hot water. If that doesn’t work you can buy additional temperature controlled crossover valves kits for other faucets that are on different piping routes. The system cost about $200 for one faucet and $50 for each additional faucet if needed. With the first crossover valve at my kitchen sink my daughter’s bathroom sink was also always hot but I had to buy a 2nd crossover valve for the master bathroom being it was on a different piping route.

The install was easy and only took me about 1 hour. I hope you enjoy the video and photo gallery below. Retail box Contents of box recirculation pump pump uses 220mA at 120V so ~25watts. A Slower Speed of Light. Download the latest beta releases For MacFor WindowsFor Linux A Slower Speed of Light is a first-person game prototype in which players navigate a 3D space while picking up orbs that reduce the speed of light in increments.

A Slower Speed of Light

Custom-built, open-source relativistic graphics code allows the speed of light in the game to approach the player’s own maximum walking speed. Visual effects of special relativity gradually become apparent to the player, increasing the challenge of gameplay. The perfect game room or kids room light switch? ThinkGeek - Power-Up Arcade Light Switch Plate Power-up your room Did you ever dream of living in the arcade when you were a kid?

The perfect game room or kids room light switch?

Every morning, you'd eat your cereal on the air hockey table (turned on, of course, so your spoon would float ever so slightly). You'd get in a few rounds of your favorite game before school and when you got home, you and all your friends would mash buttons together. Then you'd go to bed, snuggled up in the ball pit. Hear that? The sound of jingling quarters, bleeping, pew pew pewing, and those words you wouldn't say if Mom's in earshot? Rob Miles - C# Yellow Book. The C# Yellow Book is used by the Department of Computer Science in the University of Hull as the basis of the First Year programming course.

Rob Miles - C# Yellow Book

You can download your own copy from here. We give away a free printed copy to students when they arrive in the department, and we also give a copy away to anyone who comes to see us on an Open Day. This is the 2014 version of the book, the Rubber Duck edition. DIY Projects, Inspiration, How-tos, Hacks, Mods & More @ Makezine.com - Tweak Technology to Your Will.

Get on it with on{x} - Control and extend your Android phone by remotely programming it with JavaScript (from Microsoft, yes Microsoft) On{x} on{X} lets you control and extend the capabilities of your Android phone using a JavaScript API to remotely program it. on{x} - learn more about on{X} beta on{X} (pronounced like 'on-ex') lets you control and extend the capabilities of your Android phone using a JavaScript API to remotely program it what are rules?

Get on it with on{x} - Control and extend your Android phone by remotely programming it with JavaScript (from Microsoft, yes Microsoft)

Backyard Brains. Improved Cucumber Martinis. One of the finest cocktails that we have ever come across is the cucumber martini, a cocktail which– correctly executed–can be a bracingly refreshing blast of intense cucumber flavor, highlighting what is perhaps an under-appreciated member of the melon family.

Improved Cucumber Martinis

Unfortunately, cucumber martinis often fail to live up to their potential, ending up as watery infusions that might be mistaken for scented mineral water. And that’s an injustice. To set the record straight, here is how to make your own thoroughly-awesome cucumber martini. To go one step further, we present three distinct variations: the Sweet Vodka Cucumber Martini, the gin-based Savory Cucumber Martini, and the non-alcoholic Cucumber Fizzy.

Duolingo. Trumpet: Cleaning and sanitizing a used cornet, dishwasher soap, tuning slides. Expert: Vikrant Singh Badwal - 11/5/2009 QuestionHello Vikrant!

Trumpet: Cleaning and sanitizing a used cornet, dishwasher soap, tuning slides

I am a beginning cornet player of 5 weeks. I just bought a used Getzen 300 series cornet that is silver. It is arriving today. Before I play it, I want to clean it thoroughly and disinfect it. Thanks for your help in advance! Andy AnswerHi Andy, I assume that you bought the horn used. Next, remove the main tuning slide and look through the main pipe against a light source. Feel free to play the instrument keeping in mind not to suck back from the horn. Slide severely stuck... Welcome Home Bars Recipe. Star Wars Cookies Made from Non Star Wars Holiday Cookie Cutters. November 13th, 2011 by Conner Flynn Making Star Wars cookies is a great way to geek out during the holidays, but what if you either can’t afford or don’t want to buy special Star Wars cookie cutters?

Star Wars Cookies Made from Non Star Wars Holiday Cookie Cutters

Well, here’s a great way to make Star Wars cookies from those plain old holiday cookie cutters that you probably already have. Check out how Sugarbelle made use of these ordinary cutters to create everything seen above. Shop Light Upgrade & T12 Phase Out. By Rob on November 7, 2011 I have about a dozen 4-foot fluorescent shop lights in my basement and garage.

Shop Light Upgrade & T12 Phase Out

They’re all hanging from chains and plugged into ceiling-mounted electrical outlets that are controlled by wall-mounted switches. They frequently have to be replaced because the cheap magnetic T12 ballasts in them go bad. On my last trip to buy a replacement I learned something I didn’t know and you may not either. Paul Zak: Trust, morality - and oxytocin. Classes Index. R2D2 Translator. Ikea Turns Campaign. Vi Hart on “What is Up with Noises?” Fallout brought to life with this working PIP-Boy 3000. San Francisco Victorian Restoration. After nine straight days of work the library is finally complete.

San Francisco Victorian Restoration

We haven’t yet found a chandelier or sourced the wallpaper but that didn’t stop us from inviting our friends over and celebrating. For the first time we could sit back and actually see and enjoy what we had built. It’s been an incredible project and I couldn’t be happier with the results. Thanks dad for showing me how to do it right. As promised, I have enlisted the help of a real photographer to take some proper photos. Update [9/21/2011]: Wallpaper, chandelier, and other finishing touches After weeks of searching for wallpaper we finally settled on this beautiful fabric-on-paper chocolate damask from Dhongia. To see the history of the entire project and the writeup checkout the victorian library build. Tool Review: Couch Spray Paint. No, Seriously. I'm a phony. Are you?

Malthus, a Meal a Day. Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying About the Food and Love the (Population) Bomb. — Conceptual Devices. As designers we give ideas a form and we transform them into things. We can’t certainly solve the world’s challenges, but what we can do is to create a concrete storytelling about them. A narrative. Malthus is one of these tales. It is an in-home aquaponics unit designed for the next generation kitchen or living room. It grows one meal a day: a portion of fish and a side salad. Malthus is an appliance for the kitchen of the future that grows food right next to where you cook it. Malthus is designed to optimize space and costs with indoor food production. [svg src=" width="400" height="565" style="display:block; margin-left:auto; margin-right=auto;" type="embed" ] Malthus #01 was built thanks to the collaboration of Ola Nilsson and presented for the first time at the 10th edition of NESS – Nordic Environmental Social Sciences Conference – Stockholm 14th -16th June 2011 within the context of the exhibition “Power Landscapes” curated by Po Hangström.