Come every Christmas, most household will have hell of a time sorting out their Christmas lights that they have stashed away for the past one year. A common sense tip is when you dismantle your Christmas lights this year, do make sure you roll it up neatly so it does not get tangled up. Once a string of Christmas Lights gets all tangled, you will probably prefer tearing away your hair than to untangle the mess. As in all thing that rubs on electricity, make sure your old Christmas lights are in good condition before hanging them up. Check for [...] Read more »
The Electrical Lineman
Electrical Lineman are the unsung heroes of the whole process that bring electricity to our homes. Their part of the job hinges between life and death and one minute of carelessness or one second of misfocus could well cost the electrical lineman their precious lives. Basically an electrical lineman’s job is to make sure the giant electrical cables that we see hanging for miles and miles above giant steel towers are in perfect working condition. This ensures that whenever we flick on our electrical switches, the lights automatically comes on. When we are enjoying the comfort of our homes with [...] Read more »
Tapping The Power Of The Wind
Other than hydro power and solar power, wind power is another form of cheap, clean and environmentally friendly energy that can be put to good use. Many countries have adopted these technology to tap into these free source of power. The Netherlands being a windy country by nature is one of the major users to tap the power of the wind. For the uninitiated, looking at a wind mill may be very puzzling to them. They will be wondering how with the whirling of those big giant fins, electrical power can be produced. A brief explanation will be very enlightening [...] Read more »
Ways To Save Electrical Cost
With the econmy downturn that don’t seems to be ending real soon, practical cost saving solutions should be observed. As apposed to many things that when cut down or done away with may effect our lifestyle, cutting down on electrical cost can be done without any drastic change to our daily lives. However, the changes made will need some investments, but in the long run, you will save many times more that you have invested. There are a few areas which can be considered when it comes to cutting electrical cost. For a quick start, comes this Christmas when you [...] Read more »
Get All Your Light Fixtures And Switches Before Starting
The most frustrating moments a hard core DIY practitioner faces is the lack of materials when they are nearly done and the most common case is not something that is unexpected. Most of the time they discover that they missed out the most crucial part of their entire project until the last moment when all the shops have closed. When that happens, many projects are just left hanging there for weeks. It is not always that we find the time to do a project so before starting, make a detailed inventory of the things we need and get them all [...] Read more »
Terminating The Fan Regulator Wires
I guess lots of you still uses the old fashioned fan speed regulator like the one you see above. These speed regulators works with a copper coil as resistance to regulate the amount of current passing through to the fan. There is of course the speed dial ranging from 1 to 5 or sometimes 0 to 5 where 0 means it fan is switched off with no current passing through. 5 would mean all the current passes through offering no resistance at all. At speed level 5, the fan will be running at full speed. Anywhere in between 9 and [...] Read more »
Outdoor Lighting Wiring Diagram
Installing an outdoor light is a good practice especially if you have a wide compound where some areas can be really dark during the night. This can be a security issue. To install a outdoor light will involve some digging as the wires will have to be run underground and the light pole will have to be planted. Refer to the diagram below. As in installing any lighting circuit, there are always the live and the neutral wire coming from the source which can be the Mains Distribution panel of the switch and light nearest to the new circuit that [...] Read more »
Light Bulbs
The most commonly used and most commonly replaced electrical item in our house is the common light bulb, which in this case is the incandescent bulbs. Almost every household stocks them in small quantities in case one of them decides to burn itself out in the middle of the night. All electrical light fixtures uses light bulbs. From the most expensive chandeliers to the cheapest night light, the bulb is the heart of the fixture. There are many different kinds of bulbs in the market and ones that is getting rather popular these days are the energy saving types. These [...] Read more »
