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Spent the first week after terminal black on doors. Finds the mechanism of BAD AIR: the old works blocks change their air rather than scrubbing it; the heat exchangers sitting between exhaust and fresh-air intake ice up, because warm air out of an occupied room is wet and gives up every gram of it crossing to the supply side; and the 2311 controller shuts the fresh-air damper a little further every time the defrost cycle fails to complete, which it has been doing eight times a day since terminal black. "That's a 2311 controller doing exactly what a 2311 controller was told to do in 2311...
Spent the first week after terminal black on doors. Finds the mechanism of BAD AIR: the old works blocks change their air rather than scrubbing it; the heat exchangers sitting between exhaust and fresh-air intake ice up, because warm air out of an occupied room is wet and gives up every gram of it crossing to the supply side; and the 2311 controller shuts the fresh-air damper a little further every time the defrost cycle fails to complete, which it has been doing eight times a day since terminal black. Refuses to write down his fresh-air estimate until Ortiz makes him — with his name, the time, and estimated in front of it in letters the same size as the number.
How they speak
Says what he can show and what he cannot show, and gives the difference without being asked twice. Reports the machine's behaviour before the machine's fault. Book 2 Terminal Black (2349), chapter 20 onward.