The place to get really bad advice on all your electrical questions. Warning: Some posts may be shocking.
To properly attach connector ends to coax cable I need a crimping tool. Are they all the same or is there a good one?
We all have them on the lap top or whatever but I am intrigued by the cylinder on the lead near the plug on the power supplies, are they a device to...
I listen to ABC AM radio a lot. The signal is usually good. I have noticed sometimes when another electrical appliance is switched on, I can hear...
toshiba laptop died this morning, try to start it and the orange power light flashes for a few seconds then stops, nothing more happens. plugged the...
It isn't as bad as the current oil spill but things can obviously go seriously wrong. A sparkie mate sent these to me today. I've asked him how this...
Here's an idea I'm toying with. I need to build a dock. I have that figured out pretty well, and it will be a floating dock using 4 plastic...
I now have 5 remotes. TV, DVD and tape player, satellite TV, digital TV. Do those remotes that you can program all the others into work OK or do...
If you have a standard definition TV as I do, and you need a digital STB or need to renew your STB, then be very careful. Now I'm talking a...
If you wack solar panels on your roof and connect to the grid , any rebate, credit for power you sell back is classed as an income and you have to...
I was watching 4 Corners last night, about the ceiling insulation issue. :zapOne electrician said that down lights can produce temperatures of 400...
I bought myself a $40 set top box from Dick Smith's in the hope I might be able to pick up digital TV. Here analog is shit, that's why I have Aroura...
OK I admit I know sweet FA about elekricity. I (like many of you no doubt) have heaps of old charges for 12v devices that have since died or I...
I found these blokes yesterday. They are heaps cheaper than the local Haymans electrical. http://www.sparkydirect.com.au/
Talked to a guy at work yesterday who was replacing one of the new LED strip lights that had replaced an old fluoro about 12 months ago. I asked...
Did you hear about the bloke in the Blue Mountains that got hit by lightning while doing the dishes next to a window yesterday? He's ended up in...
A few days ago the hood over the cooktop smelled funny (burning plastic) and was quite hot to the touch. I flipped the breaker off, waited to see...
Again. A wire fell off. I put it back with little crimpy thingy, :zapbut now it is arching in the switch. :pout Gonna have to get the electrician...
Some of you blokes know a bit about this stuff, so here's the thing: We have MrT's Next G Mobile Broadband. Makes a lot of sense given how we're...
I've got an electric lawnmower that has one of those closed cell batteries like they have for the old-folk gopher carts. I didn't recharge it after...
Our fire "appliance" (truck) has a VHF and a UHF radio fitted. The UHF aerial is forever getting bent because it's just a stiff bit of steel wire/rod...
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