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• On planes, silence is golden
In fact, Mark Mershon, an electrical technician in Salt Lake City, Utah, considers the whole cell-phone-on-planes debate to be “stupid, plain and simple.”  He wrote “ ... [N]ever has someone talking on a cell phone near me annoyed me in any ...
• Ants swarm over Houston area
DALLAS - In what sounds like a really low-budget horror film, voracious swarming ants that apparently arrived in Texas aboard a cargo ship are invading homes and yards across the Houston area, shorting out electrical boxes and messing up computers ...
• Did animals predict China's earthquake?
The most likely is that the movement of underground rocks before an earthquake generates an electrical signal that some animals can perceive. Another theory holds that other animals can sense weak shocks before an earthquake that are imperceptible to ...
• Why GOP’s Mississippi House loss resonates
Political actions committees ranging from the electrical workers union to the employees of Bear Stearns and Pfizer have filled the DCCC coffers.
• Researchers work on single-pixel camera
For one thing, this compression really drains the camera battery power," researcher Richard Baraniuk, an electrical engineer at Rice University in Houston, told LiveScience . "It's also overkill. You're using, say, five million detectors in a five ...

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» Aluminum Wiring Information - Information on hazards and remedies.
» Boyce's Electrical References Explanations - Articles on safety, wiring, switches, motors, and transformers.
» Doing Your Own Telephone Wiring - Diagrams, advice, and troubleshooting for telephone wiring.
» Electrical Safety Foundation International - Information about electrical safety in and around the home and neighborhood. Workplace Page for tips and tools to help keep a workplace electrically safe.
» Faqs.org: Electrical Wiring FAQs - FAQs for electrical wiring, including definitions, resources, tips, techniques, and safety information.
» Federal Pacific Electric FPE Panel/Breaker Hazard Summary - In-depth discussion of the hazard and remedies.
» Free Electrical Answers By Marosteph - Master electrican provides free advice. Includes faq with answers to common questions/problems.
» Home Wiring - Instructions on how to wire 3 or 4 way switches, fan/light combo, pools, garage, hottubs, dwellings, and National Electrical Code compliance.
» Howstuffworks: Electric Motors - illustrated tutorial examines motors from construction to operation.
» Molex - Good Crimps - Illustrated tutorial on properly crimping terminals.
» The Old House Web - Lighting and Electrical - Articles on adding a second phone line, safety concerns with an old fuse box, and upgrading and older house for high-tech appliances.
» Porcupine Press - Chart for Ohm's law. Illustrated tutorial on bending conduit.
» Sound Home Resource Center - Electrical - Articles primarily on the issues involved with upgrading or repairing home wiring.
» Telephone Wiring - Advice for home phone wiring and jacks with information at adding second or third line and reference for wire color codes.
» Wiring for Power Quality - Table illustrates some of the new wiring practices recommended vs. outdated methods.