Rooftop View

 Beautiful rooftop view while doing a solar installation in Paradise.  

RIP Louisiana Red

Louisiana Red passed away on February 25th.  I came across this track 'Let me be your Electrician'.  Of course, I love it!

                              
                             

Cutting the Chord

Chord Safety! Make sure your tool chord is away from the tool. Check out this electric knife cutting its own chord. The sparkette in me gets excited and horrified at the same time! The crazy thing is folks cut through their own electrical chords while working all the time. Watch yourself.... safety is sexy.

Incredible Use of Lighting!

Check out the video below of the Lichtefestival Gent in Belgium (Festival of Lights Ghent). Using led's and projections they were able to create an intriguing and magical environment. The photograph above shows a hall lit by 55,000 LED's. Amazing!


Lichtfestival Gent 2012 from Lieven Vanoverbeke on Vimeo.

Animal Habitats and Electricity, Whoa!

I found this old Service Panel on our property in Stanislaus County, CA. As you can see wasps and other insects had take up residency in the disconnect. I was curious so I brought my tester down to this panel by the river, and sure enough, it was live! I guess it used to feed a water pump that we no longer use for the well. To the left of the Service Panel there was a disconnect for the water pump, as you can see a bird had happily made a nest inside the electrical disconnect!