Electrical Archive
If you’re like most people, most of your devices charge via USB. USB charging has revolutionized the way we think about power, and made it easy to charge a variety of devices. When your laptop, your smartphone, and your tablet all share the same power supply, charging is simple. You can just use a single cable, instead of juggling multiple chargers. But using a USB …
The holiday season is here, and decorations are on everybody’s mind. It’s time to get festive, play your favorite tunes, and trim the tree. Then, the inevitable happens. You open up last year’s box of Christmas lights, and all of them are dead. Now what? It’s time to invest in some new Christmas lights. But while you’re buying some anyway, why not get lights with …
If you need a steady supply of water, a pump is a necessity. This is true whether you’re watering your plants, or whether you’re trying to take a shower. For home applications on a water line, the pump is a large commercial one, run by the water company. For homes with a well system, this is a 230 or 120-volt well pump. For an RV, …
If you’re installing sensitive electronics, a surge protector is a must. For instance, rackmount surge protectors have been standard on server installations for decades. Similarly, pretty much everybody uses a surge protecting power strip for their PC and game console. But when you’re working outdoors, you run into an additional wrinkle. Your surge protector needs to be as weatherproof as whatever it’s protecting. Otherwise, it’s …
From the day Thomas Edison invented the lightbulb until the mid-2000s, very little changed. You had a very thin wire inside a glass vacuum bulb. When an electrical current hit the wire, it became white hot, giving off enough light to fill a room. The concept may have required thousands of tests to get right, but it was tried and true. Unfortunately, old-school incandescent bulbs …
