#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有難い仕様だ。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至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。

[ambrr0se01]

Good girl edge

Good girls obey

Good girls rub their minds away

Good girls edge

Good girls obey

Good girls rub their minds away

[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..

[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

[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

[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

[gigglecoffin]

Wish my pc didn’t explode 🥰

[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.

[peridot-tears]

Thinking about how during the Donghai divorce arc, Li Xiangyi was barely missing Di Feisheng's vitals, but Di Feisheng stabbed him in the shoulder and declared himself a winner. One fighting to kill, one fighting to incapacitate.

[ownerspuppy]

Okay uhm Imagine you're told to wear a dress out, with nothing underneath

You do as you're told, you know better than to get yourself in trouble with owner

You go out, enjoy the nice weather until you find a bench that onwer decided was good and hidden enough so he tells you to spread your legs so he can have fun

He doesn't let you cum though so you get all whiney and horny and can't stop thinking about anything else but being fucked into oblivion by him on your way home

Once you're home he tells you to bring him his strap on nd get ready on the bed. As you lie down and master begins to touch and grope you, owner tells you that he won't stretch you this time, he wants you to feel the stretch from him

So master puts you on all fours and starts to pound into you from behind until your hips go weak and he twlls you to lay on your back

It feels so good but your puppyhole starts hurting after awhile so you try to crawl away from master because you're too deep in puppyspace and can't talk anymore but all he does is grip onto your waist and hips and pull you back on his cock and whisper down to you that you won't get away, you're his toy and trapped beneath him

So you beg him with broken pleas to not hurt you but the more you beg the nore aggressive onwer gets so you just lay there and take it while he fucks you even stupider than you were before

[wimbledon2008]

having hate sex with your rival with benefits is all fun and games until you're asking him to stay the night and making him a tuna melt

[ambrr0se01]

I'll just leave this here

[parasitoidism]

Serph drives some kind of sensible hatchback Heat drives a 70's station wagon and NOT a nice one argilla drives a little 2 door sedan cielo has a fancy minivan and gale drives a tesla

[stormvanari]

mermay means:

🦑Abyss AU🦑

disassembly drone edition

[loveoaths]

it fucking kills me that i have seen NO ONE talking about the reaction jess jordan, kendall roy’s assistant, has. because it is jess, and rava and sophie roy, who have the reactions that twitter and reddit and all the succession lovers are looking for in shiv, for some goddamn reason. it’s jess who not so subtly pleads with greg to delay calling the election, who is blown off dismissively and ignorantly by greg who cannot understand or even SEE how strong of a panic reaction she is havjng. to him, and every other roy and tom and everyone else at their level, this is just another crazy day with literally zero consequences. a fascist dictator president will literally not change the quality of their lives as rich white people. but it will change jess’ life, as a biracial woman. it will change rava and sophie roy’s lives, in spite of kendall’s money and protection. and the show purposefully cuts off their reactions — jess blinking fast and breathing hard and about to have a panic attack meltdown in the hallway, rava and sophie scared in the back of an SUV — because the show isn’t about them. the show is about the roys, who do not care about the consequences of their actions, partially because they never have to SEE the consequences of their actions. greg does not see jess freaking out; even when she is clearly panicked in front of her he cannot see her pain and if he could, he wouldn’t care. it’s only when he turns his back on her that she starts to break down, which is a great if painful blocking choice. not only is it realistic — she can’t lose face in her workplace, she can’t react negatively when she works for the guy who owns the Devil Right Wing Fascist TV Network, and she most certainly can’t react any way people don’t like because she is one of the few, if not the only, black women in the building and working for the roys. while greg sighs and laughs about this day being crazy, she is having a meltdown as she fears what this election result means to her. if rava, a wealthy woman of color with a powerful ex husband, is scared, how much more scared is jess? is everyone else under jess?

but the show cuts off her reaction and takes us back to shiv because this show is from the roy’s pov, and this episode is largely from shiv’s pov. shiv “cares about democracy” and the country to an extent, because democracy only effects her to an extent. she knows on paper this election is bad news. she also knows it’s not going to change her life directly because she’s rich. like her brothers, who do not care at all who is President, who only care about which candidate will give them what they want, shiv is more upset because this election means she isn’t getting what she wants. she’s going to lose her power in the potential matsson deal. because that is how the roys chose who would be president: they chose the candidate they could buy and who could sell them control over their interests for the lowest number, and meincken outbid jimenez by a landslide. tldr the reaction people are looking for in shiv and in the roys were there, but in jess and rava. and even rava and jess aren’t progressives, aren’t “feminist icons”, they’re also complicit and victimized all at once, like shiv is, but with far less say and power. it’s almost like… the show about face eating leopards… is making a point that if you get in a cage with a hungry leopard, at some point you will run out of steaks to throw at it and it, too, will eat your face off. huh.