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Farabomb · January 29, 2015, 11:06:12 AM

I woke up to -16 by me. Guess what's giving me issues this morning?

Seems with the afga plate if it's too cold, you get less dot. Isn't that nice.

Joe · January 29, 2015, 11:23:39 AM

Try scraping the frost off before imaging.

Farabomb · January 29, 2015, 11:44:11 AM

Don't give him any ideas. He went looking for the heat gun when I told him... Yea, use an elephant gun as a flyswatter.

David · January 29, 2015, 01:23:11 PM

our Kodak Approval had temp issues as well. If it got too hot or too cold the lasers would not fire.

(now gone by the wayside.. yes, I am sooo sad,

)

Farabomb · January 29, 2015, 02:51:09 PM

Everyone go play the lottery. After 4 years of temperature issues the boss has seen the light and maybe I won't have to wear my jacket all day in here.

David · January 29, 2015, 03:11:19 PM

I call BS

Joe · January 29, 2015, 03:28:03 PM

Quote from: Farabomb on January 29, 2015, 02:51:09 PMEveryone go play the lottery. After 4 years of temperature issues the boss has seen the light and maybe I won't have to wear my jacket all day in here.

It's a trap!!!!! CYA immediately!

Farabomb · January 29, 2015, 03:43:35 PM

Yup, tomorrow should suck royally if history is any indicator.

StudioMonkey · February 02, 2015, 09:06:30 AM

In the UK we have a legal limit to how low the temperature can go in a workplace, but no upper limit. One place I worked it got up to 120C in the summer. That's extreme for Blighty. No processor issues though.

mattbeals · February 02, 2015, 11:29:29 AM

Quote from: StudioMonkey on February 02, 2015, 09:06:30 AMIn the UK we have a legal limit to how low the temperature can go in a workplace, but no upper limit. One place I worked it got up to 120C in the summer. That's extreme for Blighty. No processor issues though.

120c? You should have been dead around 70.

Joe · February 02, 2015, 11:47:36 AM

Yeah, I bet that is painful when the sweat coming our of your skin boils.

StudioMonkey · February 06, 2015, 04:08:56 AM

Quote from: mattbeals on February 02, 2015, 11:29:29 AM
Quote from: StudioMonkey on February 02, 2015, 09:06:30 AMIn the UK we have a legal limit to how low the temperature can go in a workplace, but no upper limit. One place I worked it got up to 120C in the summer. That's extreme for Blighty. No processor issues though.

120c? You should have been dead around 70.

120 farenheit I mean - we use both scales in the UK depending on which sounds better and I get confused

Farabomb · February 06, 2015, 10:03:54 AM

Seems the heat war is not over. Walked in today and the digital guy was telling me he was getting errors. If the fuser doesn't come up to temp in X amount of time it errors thinking something is wrong. It doesn't expect the temp to drop down to 53 at night so the inside of the machine is frigid.

Next person I run into is the pressman. They have been having problems with the console. Too cold and it won't turn on. He made a video showing how when you warm up the boards with the heat gun it turns on. Take it away and it will shut down shortly. It's totally temperature related but the boss didn't want to see the video proving it.

The pressman had to wait a hour before the console warmed up enough. I kill plates because it's just too cold for the thermal plates to image correctly. The digital machine errors because it's not made to deal with temp swings so extreme.

All this proof and the boss still says "I can't believe how that's possible". Wasted time on press, wasted plates just because he thinks not having the heat on when people aren't here is saving money. Yea, we also run some weird hours when rush jobs come in. Too cold and good luck getting anything done. Just because he thinks he's saving money on heat.

I'd even bet that it costs more having to heat this place from such a low temp rather than just maintaing a decent temperature.

Joe · February 06, 2015, 10:52:27 AM

It does save on heating when you turn it down when no one is there. However he is probably losing that and more by the added production costs of having to wait for it to heat up before anyone can do anything. He needs programmable thermostats to kick the heat on an hour or two before anyone comes in. Or not to let it get so cold by keeping it about 64F when no one is there and them warming it up to about 70F right before the troops arrive.

Farabomb · February 06, 2015, 11:48:16 AM

We have programable thermostats I just feel the swing is too much during the week. I can understand having it low on the weekends.

Today is especially cold so it is taking longer for it to come up to temp. I normally have my lighter north face jacket and a wool hat on all day to be comfortable.

The EPA numbers on cars are better for highway driving because there isn't as much of a swing. City is worse because of the greater swing. He is stuck in his ways and won't change.

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