Electrical fires are dangerous, damaging and deadly. Many electrical fires are caused by old and outdated electrical systems and fuse boxes when they are overloaded by the surge of electricity that today’s modern appliances often require when they are turned on.

According to Bill Lutz, an electrician with Generation 3 Electric in Philadelphia, the first step in preventing an electrical fire is to have your home inspected by a lic (more…)

The home is one of the most important investments that people always make in life, so home maintenance is very importanat. It will be good for us to care for this great investment that we have made. Preventive maintenance will be good for home owners. Than to stay like that, later you start spending your money and time for maintaining your home. So it will be better for you the home owner to employer a professional for maintenance, so that he (more…)

Definition: As the name suggests a Bus Plug is a switched device which plugs into bus duct to extend power from the distribution system. The purpose of a Bus Plug is to provide a localized power feed to electrical devices.

Bus plugs will contain their own source of circuit protection. Circuit protection can be either in the form of a fuse or a circuit breaker.

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In uninterruptible power supply (UPS) installations, ‘discrimination’ is a term used to describe the co-ordination of protective devices within a supply circuit to ensure any load developing a fault (through overload, short-circuit or earth fault) is isolated and removed in the shortest possible time without disruption to remaining loads. It also ensures protection of supply conductors.

The specification is known as a (more…)