How to Calculate your Monthly Electrical Cost.
If your Electrical Bill is running sky high monthly, knowing how they add up might give you a rough idea on where you can save up. In every household, the biggest culprits that can send your Bill sky rocking are:
The Air-Condition
The Refrigerator
The Kettle,
The Rice Cooker
The Hot Plates
The Iron
and whatever that you have in the [...]
Is it Safe to use a Multiple Socket Plug Adaptor?
A very interesting comment from one of my readers asking whether if it is okay to have multiple appliances plugged into one socket.
While it is not advisable to do such a thing, many homes do use multiple gang extension wires in their homes because when they bought the house, most developers never takes into consideration [...]
How to Prevent A Electrical Contractor from Shortchanging you.
A problem that I always encounter during my sub contracting days is the pricing of my projects. Lots of my customers complains that I over charges them. At that time, the market rate for installing an additional 13 amps switch socket was 50 bucks for one additional point. More often than not, if the call [...]
How to make an Electrical Extension Chord.
An Electrical Extention Chord is a handy thing to have around the house. Making one yourself to suit your own needs is better than to buy one and then find it too short to be of any use. All you need is:
A 13 amps plug top
A 13 amps switch socket
A 3″ x 3″ base.
An Electrical [...]
Why the ceiling fan slows down.
The normal ceiling fan in our homes, like any electrical item that moves, is driven by a motor. I will not confuse you with the theoretical explanation of how an electrical motor works, but as in most electrical motors, they need a capacitor to kick start the motor. Again, I won’t bore you with how [...]
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