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How Much Power Does a Ceiling Fan Use?
Air circulation helps people fool cooler and more comfortable, because body heat gets pushed away from your immediate surroundings and because your air conditioning gets spread evenly throughout the room. That’s why ceiling fans save energy — although it helps to know...
Upgrade Your Electrical System This Summer
When your house was built, nobody could foresee how many electrical appliances and devices would be in our lives years later. Today, in addition to all our computers and televisions, we are also seeing more people in the San Francisco area add central air conditioning...
Burning Smell Coming From Ceiling Fan – What Should I Do?
Does the breeze of your ceiling fan bring a foul smell of burning plastic or metal? Like many electrical problems, you could have bad wiring that is overheating the parts. In other cases, the motor may have a defect or damage, like a car engine overheating when a part...
How to Protect Your Kids from Electrical Hazards
Families have to start thinking about electrical safety before the day a child arrives in the home. In addition to protecting wall outlets from fingers and forks, your kids should be protected against electrical hazards — and educated about safety! Keep what you can...
Summer Electrical Safety Is A Must
Electrical safety is a must and summertime brings a lot of changes to the daily routine. The kids are running in and out of the house. You try to tackle some difficult home improvement projects. And there’s a lot of different entertainment devices and HVAC appliances...
How to Troubleshoot Electrical Problems
As complicated as electrical systems are, the problems you encounter at home usually have simple explanations. With a few safety precautions — be sure to turn off power before digging into things, and wear electrical gloves when working in the panel — you can quickly...
Why Don’t CFL Bulbs Work With Motion Sensor Lights?
CFL bulbs do not work well for most exterior applications, including with motion sensor lights.  You can replace incandescent bulbs with compact fluorescent lights in many places — lamps, ceiling fixtures, and throughout the home.  The rapid and frequent cycling...
How to Choose a Breaker Panel
If you’re building a home or the time has come to replace your current breaker panel, you have some important decisions to make. The new breaker panel should be more than capable of handling your current electrical needs, with some room to grow. You never know what...
California Electrician – How to Find the Best Local Professionals
Looking for the best California electrician? When hiring a local electrician, many people simply want someone who will do the job correctly and not inflate the costs. There’s more to hiring an electrician than just finding someone good and honest, though. Quality and...
Circuit Breaker Panel Safety
Inside a breaker panel, electricity is always flowing — even if you shut off the main power — unless the local utility turns off power to the home. If you have a melted or broken breaker panel or need to add or replace circuits, be safe and do your research before...
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