Things Your Electrician Wishes You Knew | Lrd12 Overload Relay

I recall a battery add from the 70’s or 80’s that displayed the power of a couple of 1.5V cells powering an electromagnet that could lift a car.

I guess writer JIM must be a “NEWBIE” or is otherwise mis-informed, but IEVs is continuing the FICTION that Underwriter’s Laboratories (UL) ‘CERTIFIES’ anything. He isn’t alone since every IEV writer says the same thing and its getting to be an echo chamber – but the end result is that IEVs is passing out bad information.

Heat pumps are good as pre-warmers but it’s hard to get really hot water from one without wasting a lot of electricity in the process as you exceed the “point of diminishing returns”. Natural Gas is still the cheapest most efficient way to heat water because it’s fairly easy to make a 95% or better efficiency burner. In Canada you’d likely have to go geothermal which in most cases is nothing but a heat pump hooked to an underground water loop

Lenovo’s previous ARM-powered device was a 2-in-1 detachable tablet / laptop hybrid, but the new Yoga C630 is more like a traditional laptop that also flips over to become a tablet in the traditional Yoga style. Because it’s more of a clamshell-like laptop, you also get a polished aluminum design, and the build quality you’d expect from a laptop. Lenovo is equipping the Yoga C630 with a 13.3-inch FHD IPS touchscreen that also supports an optional stylus. There’s 4GB or 8GB of RAM, and 128GB or 256GB of storage. Ports include two USB-C and a headphone jack.

With the start capacitor out of the circuit, the motor becomes a permanent split capacitance (PSC) motor in the running mode only.

While the translucent mirror design isn’t quite as space-efficient as the mirrorless design of an SLD camera, it’s still smaller than that of a traditional SLR, most of which need to provide room for the mirror to swing upward before image capture can commence. That translates to an uncommonly compact body by SLR standards, although it’s still a bit larger than an SLD, especially in terms of body thickness. Unlike SLD cameras, though, the Sony SLT cameras all accept the entire line of standard Alpha-mount lenses, a significant advantage if you already own a large collection of Alpha-mount glass.

The reason may be the cost of getting UL approval. You can buy off-the-shelf, UL approved, 12/24VDC power supplies. Once you are working with 12/24VDC most products don’t need further UL approvals. But — if everything is mains power you are going to have to pay for a new round of UL testing. That can be $10,000 or more.

The standard in UK is 230 V not 240 V, like the the rest of the EU. The continent was mainly using 220 V until 1986 and UK 240 V until 1986. The 230 VAC was choosen by the IEC as a compromise between the 220, 230 and 240 system. So actually main voltage in EU should be 230V +/-6% at distribution panel, and equipement should support 230V +/-10%. (voltage drop in the internal house distribution should be less than 4%) But a transition period of 20~25 years was used, during the transition period main voltage at distribution panel in UK should be in the 230 VAC +10%/-6% range, and in the rest of EU it should be in the 230 VAC +6%/-10% range. (Other 240 VAC country like Australia and NZ switch to 230 VAC at least officialy)

Ultimately under-rating won’t solve the problem. The Chinese scammers are already putting below-rated parts in, because they assume most users will under-rate anyway, so they’ll get away with it. If, in response to that, you under-rate even more, and this becomes mainstream, what do you think will happen? They’ll just take it into account, same as ever, and the 75A parts you’re putting 40A through, because you want to be careful, will only contain 20A triacs.

I seem to remember one test video I saw online, possibly BigClive, finding that the actual rating on the faux-Fotek SSR that he was dissecting was rated at around 10A, in a 25A labeled SSR. I believe it was also a MOSFET instead of the SCR or TRIAC that it was supposed to have, as well.

A user calling himself "Tango" over at the MyNissanLEAF forum posted them yesterday saying, "I wasn’t sure if anyone posted pics of the insides yet, so while they were [installing it], I took a couple of pictures of the innards."

Your friend died of what and why? Testing mains voltage across the back of his hand? Please. Mains voltage is not scary if you know what you are about. I dealt with volts up to 132KV and mega amps and megawatts in my career I worked in the UK electrical power industry.