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Goodbye, Disposable Battery

Tuesday, October 18th, 2011

Disposable Battery

This has been coming for a while now, but: the disposable battery is on its death bed thanks to the heavy use of non-user-serviceable, cheap, rechargeable, and durable batteries in modern devices. But is this necessarily a good thing? Let’s analyze this.
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Tags: batteries, dying, electricity, emergency, racket
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Saving Key Devices From Surges

Thursday, October 13th, 2011

Transformers

Due to a change in the type of power plug that ships with smaller devices (i.e. the “magic little boxes” that us integrators install for clients) in the past several years, said devices and power supplies are more apt to be wiped out by lightning and power spikes than older supplies in exchange for a lower manufacturing cost. However, with a simple change in how you merely plug it in, you can alleviate this key disadvantage AND lower your electricity bill in one fell swoop.
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Tags: electricity, Greening, power strips, saving money, tips, transformer
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