Out just in time for this summer’s annual Heat Wave And Humidity Festival in the deep south, Transformer asks the very question I’ve had stumbling around in the ole hat rack 3 years ago, namely, What happens when you’re trying to fix your own indoor furnace/AC unit by buying a transformer at the wholesale HVAC place, and you inadvertently wire the thing backwards?
Answer: It smokes for about 3 seconds, and then the central air completely and utterly stops working. And the house heats up to about 135 degrees in the span of 2 hours. You might as well be sitting in a hot tub in some South American jungle. With no water in it, even.
Set in the lush foothills of the Appalachian Mountains in beautiful cinematography-friendly Birmingham, Alabama, our hero is confused as to why his unit keeps blowing the little 5 amp fuse thingie.
He never finds out, of course. But when he finally has to break down and call a professional, the professional, seeing the backwards wiring, asks our hero if he wants to know exactly what it was that he did wrong.
Our hero declines, disgusted with himself.
And just like that, 10 minutes of work and 200 dollars later, our hero’s abode cools all the way back down to 91 degrees in the mere span of 16 hours. Thanks, deep south in July/Augus!
The end.
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oh, i can't wait for the DVD commentary on this one.
currently have the AC hotwired, because i can't seem to correctly attach a thermostat. see, i bought what the condo building recommened, but of the 5 possible wires, only 2 are not wire-nutted together. and they are mislabeled. so i burnt out one thermostat. bought another and reversed the wiring. burnt that one out too.
fun! we add this to the list of enjoyable building quirks, like the fucked up plumbing, frieght doors where the door into the main lobby from the frieght lobby is narrower than the actual door into the building, metal door jambs and window trim, non-standard medicine cabinet cut-outs and canterkerous neighbors who complain that you shower is too loud or the backseat of your car is messy.
"He who owns a home wants not for hobbies."
I swear, any, and I do mean any stupid home improvement project I start inevitably begins with my having to back up 5 steps before I can even begin the actual improvement project I started out trying to start. It verges on the humiliating.
I believe some congrats are in order; very happy for you 2... 3. I'll just assume if you haven't already that you're going to make an honest woman out of her. Or are you 2 going the Goldie/Kurt route?
(Yankees rule all forever!!!)
We had 2.5 inches of rain this morning. The gutters were weeping, literally.
she's already an honest woman. frank and forthright too.
[grin]
yankess suck.
You actually saw the movie before reviewing it this time!
What I don't understand is why the hero thought he had installed the transformer backwards. It was clearly a Decepticon. Hello! Decepticon? It's also not very clear exactly how turning a Birmingham house into a pressure cooker plays into the Decepticons' desire for world domination. Something doesn't add up.
hey, you've got to start small. first a house in birmingham, next the city, then the state, country and on to world domination!
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