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Power Quality

Posted in February 23rd, 2008
by Dave in Power Quality

What is it?
A surge protective device protects your electrical
equipment and appliances from voltage surges and
spikes that interfere with their normal operation.
What does it do?
Power surges can be generated from external
sources outside your home such as lightening, or
from internal sources inside your home such as
other electronics and […]

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Luke-Warm Smoke Detectors

Posted in February 14th, 2008
by Dave in Electrical Bloopers

This was interesting - When Installing fixtures and devices while finishing an improvement project, I reinstalled an existing Smoke Detector. After connecting the unit I noticed that the Green Power indicator did not light up. I double checked for power and found that all the breakers were on, but there was no voltage found on […]

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