When the lights finally flick back on after an outage, what you do in the next few minutes can decide whether your home stays ...

The full article, titled The Dangers of Overloaded Circuits, is available on HelloNation. In the feature, electrical expert ...

Electrical failures rarely arrive without warning. Long before a breaker trips or a fire starts, your outlets and circuits begin sending subtle signals that the system is under strain. If you learn to ...

Overloading electrical circuits is easier than you may think, especially around the holidays. At best, overloading the circuit is inconvenient, but it can also be dangerous. So, if you see the warning ...

Man looking at an open electrical panel in a home - Photoalto/eric Audras/Getty Images Imagine you're relaxing in your living room — the lights are on, the TV is streaming your current favorite show, ...

Available in current ratings from 0.1 to 20 A at voltages of 250 Vac and 32 Vdc, the 3131 rocker switch/circuit breaker offers an interrupt capacity of 3,500 A at 250 Vac (2,000 A at 32 Vdc).

Have you ever come across a system that has tripped its circuit breaker and thought, “Great, a nice, easy service call. I’ll just need to reset the breaker and be on my way.” Well, it rarely turns out ...

When we do an infrared inspection along with a home inspection, one of the extra things we do is to go around the house and turn on everything that's built into the home that uses electricity, to help ...