{"id":2066,"date":"2018-01-25T19:07:11","date_gmt":"2018-01-26T00:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisa.rushworth.us\/?p=2066"},"modified":"2018-01-25T11:16:02","modified_gmt":"2018-01-25T16:16:02","slug":"motion-activated-faucets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=2066","title":{"rendered":"Motion Activated Faucets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We got <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biobidet.com\/FLOW_Faucet_UP7000CP.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">motion activated faucets<\/a> for the kitchens on one of Home Depot&#8217;s daily deals. I find myself trying to use my elbow to turn the valve when my hands are covered in whatever we&#8217;re cooking, and\u00a0<em>not<\/em> needing to touch anything to rinse my hands would be awesome. Until it was installed, though, I never really thought about the mechanism behind the motion sensing valve. There&#8217;s still a manual handle that controls temperature and flow rate. The motion-activated valve does not have a separate control for these functions &#8212; you essentially leave your faucet turned on\u00a0<em>all the time<\/em> to whatever temperature and flow rate you want. Then the motion-activated valve allows water to flow and stops water flow. Obvious, in retrospect, but not something I realized before owning one.<\/p>\n<p>There\u00a0<em>is<\/em> a timer that automatically shuts off water flow &#8211; but that timer is around three minutes. This seemed like a terrible idea until we accidentally discovered that activating the motion sensor a second time\u00a0<em>stops<\/em> water flow. Now that I know how to turn the water off\u00a0<em>without<\/em> waiting three minutes &#8230; it&#8217;s a cool feature, and one I&#8217;ll appreciate more after I make something\u00a0<em>really<\/em> messy like fish and chips.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We got motion activated faucets for the kitchens on one of Home Depot&#8217;s daily deals. I find myself trying to use my elbow to turn the valve when my hands are covered in whatever we&#8217;re cooking, and\u00a0not needing to touch anything to rinse my hands would be awesome. Until it was installed, though, I never &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-2066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","tag-random"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2066"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2067,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2066\/revisions\/2067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}