The Bimetallic Strip Explained #Shorts

This surprisingly simple device can be used to convert a change in temperature into a mechanical displacement.

[gabedarrett]

In school, more emphasis needs to be placed on this simple and intuitive style of presentation. Professors just tell you the formulas and how to use them, not _why_ or _how_ they work. Excellent work, as always!

[ProjectPhysX]

Bimetallic disks make sure the switch in an electric kettle automatically turns off once the water boils and the hot steam reaches the bimetallic disk. Absolutely genious engineering.

[musaibsaid]

I am a mechanical engineer and this has been the best explanation i have seen for such a simple concept, even during my education✌️

[RC-fptl]

Measuring the temperature in outer space is my favorite application

[rizalardiansyah]

I like this kind of short! Looking forward for more!

[amilaa]

Plz don’t stop making educational content on youtube and also contents are great!

[A-Migos]

Irons shuts off automatically when too hot so that clothes don't get burned.

[TeleportsBehindYou]

Bimetallic strips are used in residential and business thermometers to measure the ambient air temperature. They also have a magnet at the end which functions as a deadband. This prevents the system from cycling on and off too quickly.

[shankarnarayana]

I love this guy's work. U can watch it years later and still makes a difference in the way you think & learn.

[frei]

In Watchmaking this is common in Pocket-Watches before the self-compensating hair spring was invented.
The balance is made of a bimetallic strip to prevent it from changing it‘s oscillation during temperature-changes.
This was also to fully master navigation at the ocean by determining the longitude.

[ahseaton]

Most home thermostats used to use these. Unfortunately, many of them were attached to a Mercury switch that would turn on and off based on their angle. That is why those thermostats are now considered toxic hazardous waste.

[shrutisharma]

I guess this can work in fire alarm systems as well...
BTW, love all your videos! Such visualization really make things easy along with the lucid explanation👍👍

[makismakiavelis]

Irons for clothes, kettles, hair driers, toasters/panini makers, space heaters and many, many more appliances and tools use this simple method. If you pay attention you can hear the "click" sound the moment the metals bend enough to break the contact.

[haydenbrophy]

Turn Signals use a bimetallic strip and the repeated clicking noise is created when the strip bends then unbends.

[LunarCascader]

I always (well, since I first thought of it) that it would be cool if a sculpture was bi-metallic and it would change form in sunlight, possibly "sawing" against itself to produce sound. A sunchime!

[ajaykumar-ijjx]

Bro you are the only one who explains these concepts so easily and practically...love your work man

[ronkarper]

Almost every single car had one decades ago, the electric choke for a carburetor. Coiled spring, attached to a lever that would open a choke to allow more air into the engine as it warmed up. The housing for it usually had a vent that would take in heat from the engine block, and the spring itself would be directly heated with ~12 volts DC.

[topian]

Please keep making such shorts. Very helpful. 👍

[mehmeteminakdeniz]

This video was just perfect for this subject keep doing bro

[ryanmckenna]

Simply incredible, that is the most I have ever learnt in 60 seconds!