#heating control

[nostalblue]

発酵器の製作

毎年4月下旬から5月上旬にかけては新茶収穫のシーズンで、自家消費する1年分の乾燥茶葉をこの期間に製造している（激務）。最近は加工プロセスを変えながら、煎茶のみならずいろいろなタイプの茶を作っているが、こと紅茶についてはこの時季の当地の気温が本発酵工程に必要とされる雰囲気温度に満たない為、適度に加温することで発酵を促進し、より香り高い紅茶を作りたいところである。

まずは既存の所有機器の利用を考える。ホームベーカリーには生地の発酵モードがあり流用できそうにも思ったが、生茶葉を入れるにはいかんせん容量が小さい。古い電気炊飯器は容量はデカイが保温モードでも加熱温度が高すぎるだろう。

身の回りに適用できそうなものもないので、都合良い商品がないかインターネットで調べる。発酵器で検索すると多用途可能な物から特定用途のものまで様々有り、グレードも値段もピンキリだ。う～む、複雑な機能はいらないので、そこそこの収納容量があって温い温度を維持できるリーズナブルな製品はないものか。。。いろいろ探し回った結果、部品を買って自分で作ってやろうと相成った。

まずは加温する為のヒーター。そんなに熱くする必要は無く、爬虫類飼育用のパネルヒーター（上の写真左）を調達した。サイズは28cm×28cmで消費電力は28W。ボリュームで出力強度が変えられることや、それなりに防水性があるのも��難い仕様だ。価格は1900円。

そして一定の温度になるよう制御するためのコントローラー（上の写真右）。基本的に2つの設定温度間でON-OFF制御するだけの物だが、温度センサーも付いて1000円は安いと思う。AC100V駆動タイプなのでAC/DCアダプターも不要だし、直接出力方式なのも簡単で良い。

スーパーマーケットで貰った発泡スチロール箱（無料）の内部にパネルヒーターを敷き、給電コードを箱の外側まで引き出す。逆に温度コントローラーの温度センサーは箱内部に引き入れる。

温度コントローラーは箱の外側に取り付け、その出力コードをヒーターと接続する。次に給電コードをコンセントに接続するとLEDパネルに現在の測定温度が表示されるので、出力ONとOFFの温度をそれぞれ仮設定してヒーター制御が正しく機能するかをテストする。結果問題無し。

発酵プロセスにどれだけの時間を掛けるかは仕上がりに影響する重要な要素である。なので温度コントローラーの給電をダイヤルタイマー経由にして所定時間経過後に自動で加温制御を停止させる。このダイヤルタイマーはもう30年ほど前に購入した物で、最近その存在を思い出し押入から引っ張り出して液体蚊取り器の自動停止に利用していた。まだまだ現役だね（笑）。

発酵容器はアルミ製の鍋を流用。内径33cmの大きさは我が家のガステーブルでは使いづらく、数年戸棚の奥で眠っていたが、平らな鍋底とその広さがヒーターのサイズに抜群にフィットしたのと、15cmの高さが蓋をした状態でこの発泡スチロール箱に丁度収まったため採用となった。伝熱性も申し分無いだろう。

底部から加温するため、側面は放熱緩和のためアルミ保温シートを巻いた。

制御部も発酵容器も準備が整ったので、発酵させる茶葉を入れていく。ちなみにこの茶葉は収穫後20時間ほど軒下に吊し萎調させた後、手で揉捻して発酵しやすく処理した物。温度センサーは写真では茶葉の上にあるが、実際には茶葉の内部に突っ込んだ。

上部からの放熱も緩和するためアルミ保温シートを挟んでから鍋蓋を置いた。

発布スチロール箱の蓋も閉めたらダイヤルタイマーを回して加温制御をスタートする。

実際に茶葉を入れての最初の運転なので、温度がどのように変化するかLED表示を逐一観察した。ヒーターは最大出力設定で、停止温度は28℃の設定。スタートからじわりじわりと温度が上がっていくが、あるところから急に上昇スピードが増す。停止設定温度に達してヒーター出力はOFFになるもそのまま温度は上がり続け、さらに4℃ほど上がったところで落ち着いた。その後の温度下降はとてもゆっくりで、再びヒーターがON出力されるまでにはかなりの時間が経過した。ただ二度目は最初ほどの温度上昇に��らずに温度制御するようになった。これは最初の想定とは違っていたが、適温に至った時点で茶葉の発酵が一気に活発になって自己発熱が始まり、ある程度発酵が進むと発熱も終息するということが起こった結果だと推測した。

4時間後、ダイヤルタイマーが停止設定時間に達し加温制御が停止したため、蓋を開け茶葉の状態を確認する。先の状態と比較すれば多くの茶葉が赤褐色に変化し発酵が進んだことが伺える。ただこれが最終的にどのような品質の紅茶になるかは製茶してみないとわからないし、どのような制御を掛けると理想的な品質になるかは今後設定をいろいろ変えて見極めていかなければならない。ちなみに可変要素は以下のようなところか。

・温度測定点（温度センサーの設置場所） 　　容器底／容器側面／茶葉内／茶葉上／容器空隙 ・制御温度（コントローラーの設定） 　　ヒーターOFFおよびON温度 ・ヒーター出力強度（ボリュームで設定） 　　高／中／低 ・加熱制御時間 　　2～6時間 ・容器の保温性 　　高／低 ・前処理との関係

毎年製茶作業は実質2週間ほど行うが、そのうち紅茶は3日程度なので試行錯誤に数年は掛かりそうだ。まあ焦らず気長に取り組んで参ります（苦笑）。その間に何か他の物の発酵に利用するかも知れないけど。

[on-a-lucky-tide]

cw: omegaverse

Having thoughts about dominant omega Price who helps his lads through their ruts because he's a pragmatist. He's clean, he won't get knocked up because he has that shit on lockdown, and the bloody muppets won't go biting some pretty little thing in the local villages, causing all sorts of issues. It's all part of the greater good schtick he has going on.

He takes them back to his flat when it's time so they get the whole nesting experience, cooks them a nice meal with a few beers, and then takes them to bed for the time they need to get it out of their systems.

He's attentive, performing all the chuffs, purrs and trills they need at the height of their rut to feel like they're doing a good job. Doesn't complain when Soap gets rough, or Simon is big, or Gaz likes to kiss and groom him. He bites his arm, grunts out encouragement, breathes deep through his nose when they knot him for the third time in a row without rest. When they occasionally get too excited and try to claim him, he knows how to stop it.

They're soon back to fighting fit, back on the job, focused, and he doesn't take long to be right again, even if he's feeling tender and his hormones are out of wack for a day or two. He's a professional. Mind over matter is his mantra, and it's nothing that won't repair itself with time.

Price promised them that if they followed him he'd have their backs, that he'd cut through the red tape and the obstacles. For him, using his body to carry them out of a fire fight is no different to letting them fuck and knot him to manage their ruts.

His heat though? He suffers through that on his own. Price, who can't stomach any kind of vulnerability, who can't feel like he's leaning on or needs anyone, who does everything on his own terms and no one else's. The thought of any one of his lads seeing him in that state turns his stomach; a mewling, weak, pathetic mess, unfit for command.

No, Price's heats are his private shame, and he has managed them just fine without interference for two decades, even when Nikolai kisses him one night and Simon's scent begins to change as he reaches his prime, and Price's instincts are starting to fuck with his head.

[whamss]

Hrm you know I sort of think that people kind of miss out on the beauty of Kanaya having a "type" for "dangerous women" when they fail to account for the fact that Kanaya too is a dangerous woman. Like don't get me wrong, it's a very different type of dangerous. Kanaya is attracted to women with an impulsive, self-destructive kind of danger. Women who throw themselves into situations headfirst and a lot of the time will stumble out on the other side a little worse for wear (but they're effective, still, and that makes it thrilling). But like Kanaya has such a deliberate and relentless violence to her, a dangerous woman who keeps herself dormant until the time is right, but when she lets herself out she hits hard and fast (and she's also very effective, this is also quite thrilling). Things I've been rotating a lot, I think it's fun to view Kanaya's love for dangerous women less like she's a passive woman admiring and taking care of women she cannot control, and more like her enjoying the company of forces just as threatening and dangerous as she is, but a touch more chaotic in their methods

[arcanegifs]

This is the last time I'm going to be annoying about this, I swear.

A few examples of that I, a gifmaker, personally love seeing under the tags:

Analysis of said scene, show, or character, especially the long ones going in depth that span like 1000 words

People saying how crisp the GIFs look and how nice the coloring is THANK YOU. ILY GUYS. That's always huge praise for me.

Reacting with how emotional you got with the scene. How painful and emotional or how touching a scene is.

People making funny jokes, memes, comments, etc.

Literally ppl horny posting LMAO. It's super funny to read and I love seeing all the unhinged comments.

Seeing how much you loved the show and its characters

Things I don't like seeing under the tags. And these are just two very specific things:

How much you hate the show, how much you think a scene is bad, how much you hate a character, the ship, the creators, etc. or how much you dont like this ship anymore, calling a ship horrible because ____ reasons. OKAY! I get it! But I don't want to see that. Make your own hate post on your own blog! You're free to have an opinion on how much you hate something. Just do it on your own blog.

Asking why I leave out certain scenes out, why I decided to gif this scene, or not gif more of these characters. Sometimes, I'm just exhausted. I can overlook things. You guys don't know how draining making gifs can get to me, especially the scenes that are really long. But I do it because I LOVE Arcane, the story, and the characters, and the particular scenes that I make gifs of. I have my own biases too. Of course I’m making them first. Please, just make them yourself instead of complaining under the tags of my edits. Yes, I can see them.

Don’t get me wrong, I wholeheartedly appreciate everyone who supports and follows the blog. I want to make a million more HQ gifs of this amazing show, but sometimes, the very rare negativity can still get overwhelming, to the point where it demotivates you.

Arcane is extremely special to me because it's such a fantastic show, and that alone motivates me in trying to create more GIFs. Honestly, if it was any other fandom or show? I would've probably left already. Arcane is THAT great.

I know the block button is there. I use it too, but sometimes, the amount of effort and time you exert to create FOR FREE just isn’t worth it. And that’s why gifmakers and creators stop making things for fandom. It’s not fun anymore. It’s not worth it.

Some people think that making my style of GIFs is easy. Then great! Since you think so, then do it yourself and help create for the fandom too! I wholeheartedly encourage you to do it!

TLDR: Don't be rude on people's fanwork, especially when they are created FOR FREE. If you don’t like their fanwork, you can make them yourself.

[awesomecooperlove]

WEATHER MODIFICATIONS “CONSPIRACY” NO MORE

[luvrbunni]

i have such a thing for praise it makes me INSANE i cannot hear a guy say 'good boy' in any context without getting crazy turned on.. I'll get exactly one compliment and I'll start getting worked up over it because I'm very stupid and very easy..

[cryptidwrestling]

What was the point. Genufuckingly what was the point. To have us hype and cheer and be happy for Jey only to make him lose it less than a goddamn month later?

They could have written in his part in the Bloodline story without stripping his title.

Fuck this.

[coolnonsenseworld]

Samurai and Ninja in crappy pics because December here is under a constant cloud and I just want y'all to see them all golden and cute without learning how to take aesthetic pictures 🥴 💙❤️😆🥰

linktr.ee/Mezzy

[mamawasatesttube]

"Your hands are freezing." from the prompt list :]

Ma hasn't been sleeping too well lately, since Kal went missing. Now that he's back home, safe and sound in Metropolis, Kon has finally managed to succeed in turning Ma's own gentle-but-firm bullying techniques on her so that she'll actually get some rest, and you bet he's gonna be riding that high for a while.

It's a pretty warm spring day, so Kon decided he'll take the outside chores while Pa handles the inside ones. And he's breezing through 'em pretty fast! He's milked the cows, fed the chickens, collected the eggs, and weeded the kitchen garden, and...

And the entire time, Kal's been in the sky, way up out of sight, staring at him.

At this point, it's getting kinda ridiculous. Kon dumps the last of the kitchen scraps into the compost, washes his hands off at the hose, and leaps into the sky.

The sun buoys him up, full of energy and warmth as the air grows cooler around him. The farmhouse grows tiny under his feet, all the lush fields and farmland sprawling out towards the horizon. His TTK keeps the wind from mussing his hair as he zooms higher (up, up and away, right?), until he zips through a wisp of cloud and slows.

Kal, caught red-handed, gives him an awkward smile, clearly trying not to look too guilty. "Ah," he says. "So you noticed me."

"Uh, yeah, dude." Kon squints at him. His cape flaps behind him in the breeze; he's fiddling with the edge of it with one hand, almost like he's nervous. Since when does Kal get nervous? "You've been watching me for, like, an hour. It's getting freaky, man. What's going on?"

Kal rubs the back of his neck, sheepish. Isn't that wild? Superman, sheepish? What's gotten into him?

"Sorry," he says. "I, just, hm... How do I put this..."

He drifts closer, his eyes never leaving Kon's face. Kon tilts his head to one side, studying him. He looks... tired. Not, like, physically tired—that would be alarming, 'cuz they're in direct sun—but like, tired. Kon heard vaguely about the stuff that happened with Kandor, with Preus, but looking at Kal sets off some alarm bells. He knows what happened, but what happened?

Kal reaches out, and his palm brushes Kon's cheek.

Kon scrunches up his face in mild protest. "Dude, your hands are freezing! How long—"

Kal jerks away as if burned. Horror flashes through his eyes before he wrests it back behind the curtain. "I'm sorry!"

Kon blinks. "Uh... you didn't hurt me or anything." What is going on with Kal? "Your hands're just cold. You've been up here since way before I noticed you, haven't you?"

On impulse, he reaches out and grabs Kal's hands. They're cold, but he knows to expect that now; it only takes him a second to focus the energy behind his eyes, to warm them back up. Kal's the one who taught him that trick, just a few months ago, when his heat vision started to come in.

"I've... been here for a while, yes." Kal's voice is oddly soft, almost... fragile. He's staring at their joined hands like they contain all the secrets of the universe, and, uh, wow, Kon is definitely missing something here. "I'm sorry for freaking you out."

Kon's pretty sure Kal's the one who's actually freaked out, but if he says that, he knows Kal will deny it and shoot off back towards Metropolis. "No big," he says instead, and grins wryly. "You may as well come down 'n' come in, though. Pa's making cobbler."

Something eases in Kal's expression, and Kon knows he said something right. Warmth settles into his chest.

"Pa's making cobbler?" Kal raises an eyebrow, glancing down towards the itty-bitty farmhouse far below. "Ma let him?"

"He promised he wouldn't make a mess with the flour this time." Kon grins. "But maybe you better check on him, just to be sure."

A little of the ever-present weight on Kal's shoulders seems to fall away as he smiles. "You do make a compelling argument, Kon-El. Maybe I should."

"I make great points all the time, Kal-El." Kon squeezes his hands, bursting with pride. Kal's approval always makes him feel like he's basking in sunlight all over again. "C'mon, then. Krypto'll be excited to see you, too. And you can bring back treats for Lois!"

"Yes, yes, you've already persuaded me," Kal laughs. He lets go of Kon's hands to ruffle his hair, and Kon squawks in protest, ducking his head. "Let's go."

"Last one home's a rotten egg!" Kon crows, and zooms downward.

He can still hear Kal laughing behind him.

[oceans-beloved]

Meme dump yayyy🥳✨️

(off to make more now muhahaha >:3)

[omoegabo]

two omegas in heat mated to the same alpha being made to drink the same amounts of water and whoever leaks first will be made to sit by miserably and watch the other omega get knotted by their alpha. neither omega wants the other to experience that so they encourage each other to keep holding, snuggling close together in their shared nest, whispering words of reassurance despite the occasional squirming around until the inevitable happens and one of the poor little things helplessly pees all over the other.

[cosmicanakin]

foaming at the fucking mouth

gonna need him to crush me w those arms asap

[stormvanari]

mermay means:

🦑Abyss AU🦑

disassembly drone edition

[switchywhore]

what if every time i watched back the videos i have of you cumming, you could feel it?

you’d never know when i watched them back until you orgasm in the video and you feel the rush run through you. any time of the day, whenever i wanted to but you’d never know why.

maybe one day you mention it to me and i’d just grin and ask, “you mean like this?” as i pull my phone out and replay one of the videos and you feel it all over again

[abirddogmoment]

We're learning about grouse hunting together!

I was really undecided on whether I wanted to hunt with Rory for realsies because I don't have a shotgun and I don't really care to get a shotgun (I have a gun license from my time up north). I have a small air rifle and a tactical slingshot (both legal for hunting small game in my area) so I've been taking those for walks in hunting areas, along with all my permits and stuff, just to see what we see.

This grouse woods is in the same corner as my swamp, just a different part of the rec area. You can legally hunt small game during the open season with dogs with some restrictions (certain distance from the parking, some trails close for hunting on a rotational basis for maintenance, etc.) but it's not terribly popular so it's a really good area to learn. We are looking for ruffed grouse and rabbit, both of which are super common out here.

With pointing dogs like britts, you generally don't want to shoot any game unless they're pointing steady (*except when doing gun conditioning, but that's a specific training set up) - it makes sense because a shot bird is the ultimate reward and you want to make sure you're reinforcing the behaviour you want, which is usually a safe steady point. Rory isn't pointing steady yet so there's really not much for me to do on these walks besides reinforce good manners (recall, how far she ranges, etc.).

There's a really well known saying in pointing dogs, which is wild birds make bird dogs. Wild birds flush (fly away) much more reliably than farmed birds so the chances of a dog catching a wild bird is really minimal compared to farmed birds. It's super important to get young bird dogs on wild birds as much as possible so they learn all the important skills: how to navigate terrain, what habitat holds birds, what each bird species smells like, how far they can range, and most importantly, that they need a person to actually get a bird.

(Most of these skills can be taught with planted birds in training, but planted birds may be more habituated to people and dogs so they might not flush reliably. Once pointing dogs learn that they can catch birds themselves, it's much harder to foster a strong stop and point. You might see people using these tip ups, which protect the training bird from the dog. You'll often see training dogs on long lines (called check cords) or with a flank collar to reinforce not getting too close to the bird, but you have to phase those out quickly so the dog doesn't become dependent on them. You also have to be really careful with scent trails when setting up planted birds or you might end up with a dog that follows your scent instead of looking for birds organically. And of course, you have to train without birds sometimes so the dog doesn't get discouraged about not finding birds quickly because sometimes there just aren't birds out there. Lots to consider when setting up training!)

Anyway I've been trying to get Rory out on wild birds as much as possible (with the caveat that we don't run wild birds during nesting season) so we're wandering the grouse woods lately. My early recall training is really paying off because she's been super reliable in terms of good manners, it's wonderful to see!

We've been out four times (1-2 hours each) so far since the season opened. The first two times we're mostly just a pleasant walk in the woods, Rory didn't really know what we were doing so she was just vibing (THIS IS TOTALLY FINE, SHE'S NEW TO THIS). We had a couple chance grouse encounters and I could see the wheels turning, I encouraged her to sniff around where the grouse were sitting before they flew off and I watched her start to connect the dots.

(It's important to remember that dogs don't know what they're looking for until you show them. Most bird dogs are naturally birdy, but they don't know which birds are good and which birds are boring! You have to show them which birds you care about - this is easiest if you can run with an experienced hunting dog, but you can do it alone like I am by making a big deal about any interest in the "correct" birds.)

The last time we went out to the grouse woods, she did a couple of really nice whip-arounds when she caught scent she liked and followed scent off the trail I was walking! This is the behaviour I want to see so it was awesome to watch it start to click! She trailed a moose (don't want that, she found some moose pee to roll in so whatever), a pileated woodpecker (again, don't want that but it was cool to see), and two separate grouse. The first was on the wrong side of the fence so I couldn't do anything about it but she held a really nice point (the photo) and I gave her a ton of chicken and praise for it. The second was a quick point but it flushed really far away so there was no finding it again. Both birds weren't visible when she found them, they were true scent points and she was strategically looking for them so that was super cool!

She's still in heat and super sensitive right now so I wouldn't shoot over her anyway, but I'm getting pretty accurate with my slingshot so I'm hoping we can connect on something this fall - both for her pointing steady and me aiming properly. She gets more steady and more sure of herself every time we go out so it's only a matter of time!

[alxor-of-hellsite]

oh yeah don’t think i’ve posted this one yet. it’s a bit crooked but i like it like that. Sewing on the lace was surprisingly fun & it works well to fix up & project the edges.