How Much Electricity Do Your Appliances Use?

If your energy bill seems too high, you should calculate your home consumption. Household appliances are the ones that consume the most energy, so depending on which appliances you use and to what extent, you will have bigger or smaller monthly expenses. Here is an...

What Is A Circuit Breaker?

As we know from Joule’s law, the passage of an electric current through a conductor generates heat. So much heat that it can lead to melting the conductor. The creation of a circuit breaker resulted from the need to protect the connected electrical equipment...

Understanding What A Power Surge Is

All electrical appliances are characterized by a certain value of the supply voltage. The power supply network is often disturbed by a series of phenomena that can lead to the occurrence of power surges with damaging effects on the good functioning of plugged in...

Why The Lights In Your Home May Be Flickering

If you have LED bulbs, you may have noticed that they flicker at night, when the power is off. The explanation is very simple: economic bulbs contain capacitors that load from network energy losses. Losses are caused by equipment (led switches that keep the circuit...

How To Read Your Electric Meter

Reading your electric meter is not complicated but it differs according to the type of meter you have. Digital meter: single rate Write the five numbers, as you can see them from left to right (including zeros at the start). Ignore the red numbers, as well as those...