#Refrigeration
2 articles
Hardware / IoT
Too Many Alerts Mean No Alerts: Tuning a Bot People Will Read
In one day, 28 events became 56 messages, and 57 percent of all events were repeat alerts every 30 minutes. This article covers recipient tiers, merging overlapping cycles, state that survives restarts, and why you must not add keepalive to a chat app session.
Inferring Cold Room Defrost Timing from Temperature Slopes
A cold room used to dehydrate glass noodles has no humidity sensors, but frost on the coil always flattens the temperature drop slope (dT/dt). This article uses the lumped-capacitance equation and time constant τ to detect frost and trigger demand defrost with working Python code, along with calculations for R404A COP and water removed per cycle.