Things Your Electrician Wishes You Knew | Circuit Breaker Parts

• Calculate how much power you need: Generators are sized based on the power they provide an average home. Go through your home and identify the lights, electronics and appliances you want to run and the watts they consume. That’s simple enough to figure out with lamp or light fixture that takes a 60-watt bulb, and tougher to determine with your refrigerator. Aiello says to look for the data plate found on most appliances. It should tell you the volts and amps. Then do the math: Volts multiplied by amps equals watts. Or go online and look up the specs. Generac also has an online portable-generator sizing calculator you can use as a guide.

Certainly not as dull as a Golf. The estate, sorry Sports Tourer, with more rear space might even tempt me.

You also need to insure that the hot line is completely isolated from the neutral line other than via the intended switching and power supply paths. Insuring that is a hell of a lot easier when you use registered isolating components to do it.

The number on this photo is a little misleading. 337 mpg! I think I shot it after having the car for about ten minutes, nearly all of it without using the petrol engine. Still, it’s a nice little tease for any friends riding along.

The printer does not print onto the heater. The heater is normally under the bed which can be a variety of materials. I use polycarbonate, a lot of people use glass, I think most printers come with aluminium with Kapton tape on top. The heater for the bed is usually safely tucked away where you would need to be somewhat of a contortionist to actually touch it.

While not quite as light as the Olympus E-420, which lacks an in-body image stabilization mechanism, the Sony Alpha SLT-A33 is certainly in the same ballpark. The A33 weighs 17.3 ounces (1.08 pounds, 492g), with battery and flash card (but no lens), while the Olympus E-420 weighs 15.7 ounces (0.98 pounds, 445g) loaded but without a lens. The lightest SLD, Sony’s NEX-5, weighs just 17.7 ounces (1.1 pounds, 502g) loaded and with its kit lens attached — just 0.4 ounces more than the A33 body without a lens.

Halogen lamps hate being run at substantially less than full power! The additive (bromine or iodine) is used to keep the inside of the bulb clean and regenerate the filament, but it corrodes the filament if it’s not hot enough.

Turns out my old GTX670 draws a lot more power than my new GTX1080 and, based on napkin calculations, brought my total power draw a bit too close to my 750W PSU’s limit. (200W CPU doing me no favors…)

Oh, and if you want a car charging hack, there’s always the Hydra: http://hackaday.io/project/3939-j1772-hydra

My situation is a good example. I just purchased a new house and unfortunately it does not have a garage. Until I get the garage built in the Spring with a NEMA 14-50 outlet, I’m going to rough it with L1 at 120V/15A.

It should be mentioned that any of us that have been working in commercial/industrial settings should be familiar and certified under NFPA70E. This includes, but is not limited to, how to work as safe as possible with hazardous energy sources, what the proper protection is for various levels and what is considered “safe” (working distance, approach distance, protection level, etc).

I buy Crydom SSRs from Digikey. I pay the $40-$50 bucks, I use big assed heat sinks, and I sleep like a baby.