Fire and Ice
For many of us the idea of fire and ice might conjure up memories of the first book in Game of Thrones. Throughout that tortured story, “winter is coming,” but the forces of dragon fire threaten to keep it at bay, mostly. Still, the idea of using “fire” to combat ice, isn’t very new. And its actually a short trip from fire breathing dragons flying around, to the idea of using thermal switches to control hot engine bleed air to de-ice a plane wing, right? Practically the same thing! The bleed air application for CPI Thermal Switches. While CPI has recently been engaged in bleed air applications for de-icing various commercial and military aircraft, the bleed air type application is even more general than that. In any application requiring reliable high-temperature sensing that redirects or provides airflow, CPI thermals are often selected. Here’s just a few bleed-air applications that use our thermals. On some naval ships CPI thermals are used to enable heating for electronics when
