Electronics Forum / Electrical Engineering / July 2006

I'm fairly new to electronics, my end goal is this, i would like to
hook up a remote to my brights on my motorbike, one flash activates the
one button on the remote, two flashes activates the second. Each button
on the remote is only activated for 0.5 of a second.

Hi Group!
Always wondered when you are sub feeding a seperate building such as a
garage from a residence service ... is it necessary to drive seperate ground
rods for the buidling/structure being sub fed or rely on the ground

My sister lives in a remote area.  The chances of ever getting
broadband seem slim.  Even living in the middle of nowhere she had been
burglarized more than once.  She has a security system.  I recently put
in a phone jack for her and I noticed that the security system had

I'm in the military, and I'm trying to build a remote helicopter with a
wireless camera on it for use in Iraq. Now, putting the Camera on the
helicopter was easy, but I'm tied to the wall because the camera's
receiver isn't wireless, I need it mobile ASAP. We leave for training

Would anyone know why the motor on my Dyson vacuum cleaner is
overheating. We have taken it apart & given it a good clean but to no
avail.
Thanks

Some time back I had a small red book that had just about everything on
electric motors. I think it was the motor manufacturer Brook that produced
the book. Alas, it is now lost, does anyone have the correct title or ISBN
number for this great little book?

I have a Kill A Watt AC power meter and this thing is such an amazing
instrument for the price.
Picture a  load like this:
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Is the condensation pump attached to a furnace (for air conditioning)
supposed
to be hard wired?
TIA

Before you ask a newsgroup, get professional help.  If you rent or lease,
call your landlord.  Before you give advise in a newsgroup, hire a very good
attorney.

We have had a dedicated rooftop HVAC for a server room fail twice now, of
course right at the onset of a heat wave.   Both times computer room systems
were damaged.   We have a portable HVAC we can put in that room, but I don't
want it running needlessly when the main HVAC works.    ...

I bought this house and I am guessing the former owner had something
outside that ran on 240V.  All they left were a bunch of wires hanging
out of the wall.  I want to make it into a regular 120V outlet.
The breaker is a dual 30Amp breaker with a white wire and a black wire

I am working on a project which tries to control illumination by
controling the electrical power consumed by an electrical lamp (a form
of dimmer). In a part of this project I need to discuss the relation
between the change in the illumination with what the visual system

Can anyone point me at some information on calculating demand from
periodic readings?
For example, if I have a system that takes actual kW readings from a
meter once per minute, how do I calculate the:

QUESTION:   Is it correct that in a power outlet in India the 'Neutral'
port gets connected to the 'Ground' port at the power transmitting end,
while the 'Earth'  port gets connected to the metal body of the
connected appliance?

I would like to know what is the difference betwen
1) Cable glands used for LV(below 1KV) and HV cables(above 1KV).
2) Cable glands used in safe area and those used in hazardous area
3) Weather proof cable glands and flameproof cable glands