Apparently this valve actuator is dangerous to open.
Let's open it.
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12 thoughts on “Do not open! – challenge accepted”
  1. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Mindaugas Zabita says:

    Thank you very much for this video. It was interesting to see what is inside of this actuator. I have a question though – does that mean when I set room thermostat temperature to e.g. 22 Celcius, this actuator's element is heated to just some specific temperature, so it opens just as much as needed a flow rate to reach 22 in a heating circuit? It does not work as 'on-off' switch, correct? In case it stays open to some degree, that means it uses a bit of electricity to maintain the element heated to some level? If that is the case, it is a bit of wasting energy I think…

  2. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars SqualidsargeStudios says:

    So what does this actually do? I don’t get it at all, is it a thing for water, if so then what’s it’s purpose, there is no water flow.

  3. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Stephen Belcher says:

    Big Purple spring’s what I’m thinking Aswell Clive✌️

  4. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars 杏井あきこ says:

    Nice. Same principle as auto choke on bike.

  5. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars David Whatever says:

    ooo i took one of these apart after it shorted in my flats heat exchanger. it managed to sink enough current that the main fuse board breaker broke tripping the surge and had to be replaced too…. taking that apart the surge current had permanently distorted the breakers contacts. As for the ceramic heater, I do remember coming across some ceramic filaments that used the same principle to become white hot and a lamp.

  6. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars FlyMIfYouGotM says:

    Just like a middle school kid. Johnny! Don't pee on the electric fence! CHALLENGE ACCEPTED!!!!! 😂😂😂😂

  7. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars TANGLDWEB says:

    OH CRAP, HE'S RIGHT ! ! !
    This came up in the Recommendations,.. And I OPENED IT !

    And now all I get,
    Is " One Moment Please " 😂 🖖

  8. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars germz1986248 says:

    Just like an automotive thermostat

  9. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars DKC says:

    ъ.Ъ

  10. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars A Brit Abroad in the Philippines says:

    Is it a real Polypipe device Clive?

  11. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Robert Hudson says:

    I thought he said purple spring I must have dyslexic hearing

  12. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Hewitt_Himself says:

    its gonna be bit faster IRL as logically the water also heating it

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