On Sun, 08 Mar 2015 14:01:01 -0700, Tim R wrote:

On Sunday, March 8, 2015 at 3:30:43 PM UTC-4, Michael Black wrote:
On Sun, 8 Mar 2015, N_Cook wrote:

Where self heating of current through the metal of a bimetal strip to
a heater or some other faily current hungry device, switches in and
out some contacts and so gives some sort of an indirect regulator for
the load. They were still to be seen in the dashboards of cars in the
1980s and just termed regulators in the car repair manuals.

Ah, the Bimetallic Question.

Michael

Is that similar to the heat anticipator in a thermostat?

My erstwhile building services engineer girlfriend called that device an
accelerator. Even more confusing wrt automobile usage!

Mike.