Category: Electrical Power

I’m writing this post in late February, after a vicious cold snap that came through Winnipeg has finally dissipated. The weather was awful for weeks, so cold that even outdoor sports lovers were probably bundled up inside, the temperature dipping into the below 40s several times over the course of a few weeks. Winnipeg winters […]

On our last post, we went over the different ways the international community measures wires. Here’s a brief summary: in North America, we use a gauge system, where the smaller the gauge, the bigger the wire. In most of the rest of the world, they measure the cross-section of the wire in mm2. Today, we’re […]

I remember gaming as a kid, and hearing about NTSC and PAL standards; my NTSC console wouldn’t work in Europe, because they used PAL. That information never ended up being relevant to me, because by the time I had the ability to travel to Europe all the standards changed. That’s because we moved to a […]

In North America, we like to do things differently. I assume this is mostly because of the influence of the United States, and their reluctance to adopt the metric system. Here’s an example: in North America, we use letter-sized papers, the dimensions of which are derived from apocryphal stories; it’s the way it is because […]

For Christmas this year, I got a single smart light bulb. It’s quite a bit of fun; I can ask my Alexa to change the light’s colour from blue to pink, turn the light on or off, and even create a schedule for the lighting. That’s all pretty exciting, especially from a savings standpoint; I […]