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Distribution and use of electricity throughout the home. Electrical standards vary greatly worldwide, so you need to provide your location in your question or profile to ensure you get answers that are relevant to you. Posting photographs of wiring junctions or drawing a wiring diagram and posting it is also highly recommended.

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Running my Router from an inline charger

The larger the capacity, the longer it will run. If the transformer is rated to provide 0.7 A, then the router is drawing less than 0.7 A, so (as the other answer states) you can easily calculate how …
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Could a power outage damage home LED lights?

Not being connected to power doesn't damage electronics, so a power outage wouldn't cause a problem. Think of it this way: every time the switch on the wall is turned off you're causing a localized po …
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Prepping basement for drywall; how to deal with electrical wires running across joists?

Some of the wiring was run inside the joists, so it looks like this bundle of wires was added sometime after that. Whoever ran this wiring took a shortcut in the interest of getting it done fast and c …
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Gas dryer to electric with capped gas line question

Yes. If the plumber did the job properly, the gas isn’t leaking at all and there is no danger to having the pipe there.
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landscape wire in pex piping for under concrete installation

Using a drill isn't likely to work because the hole will certainly crumble and cave in over a 10 foot tunnel. Depending on the soil conditions, it will collapse entirely at least in several spots. The …
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