So you’re saying there are downsides to removing safety features of electronic devices that have direct physical contact with people, sheets, and bedding
Is that baby laying directly on the heating pad 😶 I use one for cramps and have had it leave my entire stomach and thighs beet red for hours. That's crazy.
they bigtime do, lots of people just think they're too special and clever to need rigorously studied medical
guidance and they can just do whatever because nothing bad has happened to them in their lives yet
i have that same electric pad and you're not supposed to sleep on top of it. it doesn't stay a consistent temperature and even at the bottom setting sometimes it just roasts! if she kills her baby or burns down her house her insurance company is gonna find this post and deny the claim 😬
I’d rather leave a space heater running in the room overnight. Insulated resistive elements are on a knifes edge of thermal runaway. If you’re worried about your kid being cold, heat your home.
Exactly, especially young children.
They won’t be able to communicate properly as they often will trust their parents so much that they’ll put themselves in danger, rather than complain.
Heat the room, and use blankets and safe PJs. Much safer.
It's a lot better for people, including kids, to sleep in cool air. Heating a room to sleep in to get someone to sleep better is a really counterproductive idea. Bed warm, room cool.
Still: the person posting this MIGHT have considered a hot water bottle rather than inventing a child cooker...
At one point I realized a 1:1 correlation between me having nightmares and me getting too hot at night. If I kept the temperature lower I never have nightmares. Bed warm room cool is no joke.
My daughter has a small oscillating heater in her room, that has a max timeout of 1hr and doesn’t get that hot.
Her room is above the garage, so it’s only for the really cold nights in the winter.
I still re-insulated the garage this year, hopefully she doesn’t need it.
She’s also 12.
Agreed. Children run a tad bit “hotter” in general. That’s why, when they get a fever, it’s off the charts. What idiot would take away the safety controls? How did these people survive long enough to produce another human and why didn’t anyone, who knows them, stop them from reproducing?
I strongly recommend not removing a fundamental safety feature from an electric device that is capable of
a) suffocating your child in carbon monoxide
b) setting your house on fire
c) killing you
d) killing your child
e) killing the people trying to save you
f) all of the above
What an idiot, apart from the obvious safety concerns for child and home, the dick doesn't know what the hell he's talking about, triacs don't have source/drain terminals
^ This. That is a FET. All the fool modifying the blanket has done is remove the solid-state switching that was keeping it regulated.
It's now on full, all the time, because that switching was removed.
The device hopefully meets CE standards and likely has at minimum an NTC somewhere in it, but that doesn't stop the child-roasting blanket from roasting until then
I do electronics repair for a living. The Venn diagram of "short-circuits safety features" and "total idiot" is usually a circle
