Technical
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How to rewire a table lamp
Find out how to rewire a favorite lamp by reading this informative article! Lamps are not cheap to buy. They can cost quite a bit of money out of your pocket. So, when your lamp fails to work properly...
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Home repair: fuse box
Fuse boxes have become outdated in today’s home. If you have a fuse box in your home here are some helpful hints to prevent overloading. Trying to squeeze a few years out of an old fuse box coul...
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What to check first if your electricity goes off
If we know what to check when our electric power goes off then we may be able to solve the problem outselves. This happens when we are the most comfortable, watching a good movie on television, kicki...
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Regulator Selection, Installation and Operation
Introduction The primary function of a regulator is to reduce high pressure gas in a cylinder or process line to a lower usable level as it passes from the cylinder to a piece of equipment. A regulato...
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Telephone line repair
Static on your phone line can be caused by the phone, the line, or the jack. Find out how to fix it yourself! If you are like most people, you own your own telephones. Not much can go wrong with them,...
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High Pressure Sodium Lamp
What is a High Pressure Sodium Lamp (HPS)? Invented in 1931, the high-pressure sodium lamp has a transparent discharge tube filled with a gas and sodium mixture (the conductor.) An electric current va...
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Portable Generator Safety
Residential use of portable generators is growing rapidly. As the average age of homeowners goes up, their tolerance for the more frequent and longer power outages that we are likely to experience is ...
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How to Maintain Your RV Battery
1. Access the battery you wish to check. 2. Make sure you’re checking the 12-volt DC battery and not something connected to the 120-volt AC power supply. 3. Check the cables for breaks, corros...
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IR Remote Control Jammer
Don’t like your little brother’s TV channel selection? Hate the volume your wife sets the stereo at? Want to just annoy someone? This circuit does all that and more by jamming most IR remo...
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LED Chaser
I don’t know why, but people like blinking lights. You see LED chasers everywhere, in TV shows (Knight Rider), movies, and store windows. This schematic is my version of a simple 10 LED chaser. ...