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How power works in a data center: What you need to know | 220v Contactor Relay
A capacitor stores electricity and is used during the compressor and fan startup for extra power. It also protects the motor from damage due to fluctuating voltage. These capacitors don’t last forever and can go out unexpectedly. If you are comfortable with electrical repairs you can use a ...Read more -
Inside A Circuit Breaker With MikesElectricStuff | 19mm Momentary Push Button
The stakes are much higher when you’re connecting your project to the house mains, though, as [Mattias Wandel] recently learned when the solid-state relay controlling his water heater failed, with nearly tragic results. With aplomb that defies the fact that he just discovered that he nearly burne...Read more -
25 things to do before Aug. 25 – Edinboro University News Detail | 25 Amp Circuit Breaker
Coastal BC might be viable for them, here in the “temperate” bit of Ontario they’d be good in April and October. Handheld Twilight is a scene mode on the Sony A33 and A55, so it doesn’t offer you much control: The camera picks the ISO setting, shutter speed, etc, that it thinks is best, and...Read more -
Is my appliance compatible with the Amazon Smart Plug? | 19mm Momentary Push Button
Technically it depends on the amount of resistance, effectively proportional to the amount of the conductor the electricity is able to pass through. With AC that means the skin effect comes into play but that’s a whole other bundle of fun math. With DC it’s essentially amps times volts. I typed “...Read more -
Charting the S&P 500’s range-bound, but bullish, (unofficial) summer start | Circuit Breaker Parts
On an MV distribution there is no neutral or ground wire, just the three phases with a delta / star transformer to make the LV. Handheld Twilight is a scene mode on the Sony A33 and A55, so it doesn’t offer you much control: The camera picks the ISO setting, shutter speed, etc, that it thin...Read more -
Lenovo’s latest Yoga laptop has an ARM processor and 25 hours of battery life | Circuit Breaker Parts
I came here to post those two points! The corollaries to 1) are that should something go wrong, you have a chance if there is someone else there who knows CPR. I like mandatory CPR training for lab workers because of this. AEDs are good too. Rules against playing with things that can shock you wh...Read more -
Microsoft Edge for iOS and Android now comes with a built-in ad blocker | 19mm Momentary Push Button
If you wrap your own coil, consider wrapping a thermistor or thermocouple into the windings. Insides may heat up before outsides. Expoxies have limits. You don’t want failure halfway up 50 stories, whether mangni-shoes or a load of pig iron. Cooking Triac? In my experience there are only good Tri...Read more -
New Google Classroom update makes it harder to cheat on quizzes | Circuit Breaker Parts
PHEV is a lousy name for a class of cars, but what a good class they are. Most everything you say here could be said of my 2017 Ford C-Max Energi. It gets almost twice the MPG as my control car, a 2014 C-Max Hybrid. PHEV MPGs vary wildly according to your use patterns, but FWIW, mine is stuck on ...Read more