http://www.faqfarm.com/Home/Electrical

Yes, please, if your voltage varies check the neutral where it enters your house. Might be better advice to call the POCO.

Dave

Okay that was fun... I liked this one.

"What are the advantages and disadvantages of electricity or static electricity?"

LOL

From the site:

There are some strange questions on that site, wierd answers too!.

I think some of the advice on that site is dangerous and may hurt someone or worse.
277 volt lighting in a dwelling is not allowed by the code 210.6(A)

How do you calculate the total amps used in the house when there are 110V and 220V appliances?


Lots of math involved here and calculations that generally beat up on the average electrician. You can use a rule of thumb, but you know none of this stuff is running continuously so you can't say it's in stone. Take the wattage like on a stove, maybe it's 8500 watts. The math goes like this P =E times I So then, you rework the formula using simple algebra, I = P divided by E. So again, 8500/240 can be #14. We never do this, it's a pain to carry the lighter wire just for lights. So you can figure any appliance this way. The CEC/NEC factors in what are continuous/non-continuos loads though since not all things are turned on at the same time which would allow a standard home to get away with a 100 amp service etc etc. Hope that helps, when in doubt, call a qualified electrician


The original question was "How do you calculate total amps in the house" and the person then goes on to tell him something about #14 and that it is a pain to carry the lighter wire just for lights? I thought he was talking about a stove? I think the best advice given on that whole site (that I saw) was the last line of this one.

when in doubt, call a qualified electrician



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I know what are the disadvantages of static electricity. Am I an expert?


Please someone tell me a good electrician in Budapest!

One more thing for safety, I walk around the city, I see people working on the top of buildings, with absolutely no security. I guess life is cheaper than we think. Or education missed something very important.

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I couldn't resist:

Question by anonymous asked on June 21, 2004, at 2:14 pm.
How much electricity does an average 2-story 3-bedroom house use per day, per month, or per year?


Answer by anonymous contributed on September 19, 2004, at 00:26am.

this is easy. first find out how much electricity an average 2-story 4-bedroom house uses per day, month and year. THEN find out how much electricity an average 2-story 2-bedroom house uses per day, month and year.

Add the two amounts.


Divide by two.


There's your answer!

Yes, most definitely! You should upgrade the old house to a new one with 200 amp service.

If there is something horribly wrong or dangerous with the 100A system, or is under capacity for the needs of the house, then by all means replace it, otherwise leave it. Our house is served nicely with a 100A service.
(probably 1500 Sq ft, Electric WH, dryer, range, wood heat, plus the barn which only has one lighting circuit, and a couple outlet circuits)

Here are a couple of entries which caught my eye. The guy answering this first question is rather misinformed:

Here's a reasonable enough homeowner question I suppose, but you might have a hard time even understanding the reply!

Huh???




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Just goes to show that a little bit of knowledge can be a dangerous thing.

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Question by John asked on May 10, 2004, at 5:18 pm.
Why was 120 volts choosen as the standard voltage of homes in the US? i.e. why not some other arbitrary voltage?


Answer by Andy contributed on June 10, 2004, at 9:11pm. Last updated on June 11, 2004, at 10:43pm.
Why not us 120?? We could use 220 or so like the Europeans only there's is 50, their TV and computes suck. 240 volts is too much in your house for simple stuff, you would get a worse beating/shock if you were working on stuff on your own. There are a whole ton of complicated other reasons having to do with transformers and transmission lines and the math involved. I recommend a book from Barnes and Nobles and a Hazelnut latte !!


Andy
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ahh, the European computers and TVs suck because their current is 50. (im guessing he means Hertz) so i guess our computers and TVs are better because our current is 60 Hz.

OK, I'll admit it. I read down through the questions and I was too afraid to actually read the answers. Pretty much the short answer to all of them is, "Call an electrician before you kill yourself."

I saw that one too. The computer I'm using at this moment is running on 240V 50Hz power, and strangely enough it seems to work just as well as a computer on 120V 60Hz in the States. Ah well, there goes his theory.

Hmm,
I've never read that in any Safety literature before!.