Living Skies Electric

09/10/2025

Did you know that smoke detectors, carbon monoxide detectors, GFCI receptacles (the ones with the test and reset buttons in your bathroom and outside your house) and GCFI and AFCI breakers should all be tested every month? And that the batteries in smoke and carbon monoxide detectors should be changed every year? Now would be a good time to go test all of them and change the batteries in your smoke/CO detectors.

02/01/2025

This is the perfect example of why the Canadian Electrical Code was changed several years ago to require arc-fault (AFCI) breakers. This chair was pushed up against the plug so tightly that the prongs on the plug were bent to the point that one of them was no longer in the receptacle. The cord was also being forced into a very sharp bend right at the end of the strain relief on the plug. The sharp bend in the cable can cause physical damage to the insulation causing power to flow from one conductor to the other through the damaged insulation causing heat. That heat causes resistance. The resistance causes more heat and the cycle continues until it either starts a fire, melts enough of the wire that the circuit fails or trips the breaker. In this case, with a chair pushed up tightly against the plug, the most likely failure would be a fire. Arc-fault breakers are designed to sense the unique electric field generated by failures of this type and disconnect power before the situation can progress to the point of having a fire.

01/19/2024

Well…. we found the problem.

12/22/2023

Merry Christmas!!!

12/20/2023

On those days that you only have 40% and you give 40%, you gave 100% of what you had.

12/12/2023

12/06/2023

When is the last time you checked or changed the batteries in your smoke detectors?

12/06/2023

Every machine is a smoke machine if you operate it wrong enough.