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The Importance of Power An essay about emergency backup to utility mains power and how my approach has evolved over the years to my present automatically switched generator system.
The immediate spur to this essay was my February 2007 project to build a mount for a newly acquired Hobbs meter used to measure elapsed hours of 60Hz 120V output direct from our emergency generator, thus measuring engine hours for my newly started spread sheet generator log.
Feline Basement Window Access Structure This is a J-Album story about a structure I made to provide a set of easily traversed steps from floor level to allow our cats "Dude" and "Molly" convenient permanent access to a basement window ledge...
Paper Shredder Power Switch Base This is a link to a J-Album story about a base with convenient foot activated paddle style wall switch near floor level and a duplex pair of AC sockets to control power to the shredder which has a more complicated three state (on / off / reverse) power control switch. An incidental benefit is a much more prominently visible orange glow night light plugs into the spare socket next to the socket into which the shredder is plugged at the bottom of the base, also indicating that power is on in addition to the barely visible green pilot lamp of the shredder itself...
This is a red oak project that I designed and built in my workshop in New Hampshire in the summer of 2002. Its purpose is to act as a place to store ceramic hot plates vertically in the kitchen. It is a neat and practical idea. Every day as we microwave frozen food for dinner. When we move each hot food dish in turn from microwave to serving counter, we set it on a hotplate from this handy rack until served.
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