Electrical Appliance Maintenance : Rice Cooker

 It's a vacation day fro you and you all preparing some foods to enjoy. Food means like heaven when it's delicious. You need to cook that food to make it like heaven,but unfortunately you rice cooker isn't working. OMG!!!! what you going to do dummies. Well pack up your tools dummies because we going to repair a rice cooker.

Rice cooker works as same as electric kettle and electric iron box. It change rice cooker turn electrical energy into heat energy. You need water to achieve your rice cooker can cook your rice and make steam to make fishy food. YUM!!! YUM!!!.

It has same component that has in electric kettle and electric iron box. A heating element and thermocouple. As usual a heating element turn electrical energy into heat energy. SO the heating element has resistance to make heat. Rice cooker comes with variety of design. But in common inside a rice cooker has huge pot made of aluminum. So when the heating element heating, It need water to distribute heat to the pot.That's the reason water is needed.

In thermocouple works like electric kettle (Not like electric iron box. It has thermostat to control heat). When the water or food heat at in higher temperature, the thermocouple will turn off the rice cooker immediately. So Life will be easy if you have rice cooker.

how it maintain a rice cooker in order to make it last long.

1) Check the continuity of power cord of your rice cooker. If the cord fails to power your rice cooker, you need to replace new power cord. The continuity of the cable must in  0 ohm.

2) Check the resistance of heating element. If the heating element fails, you food wont cook and your need to use your stove. So use multi meter and check the resistance of the heating element. If the reading is not accurate than your reading done by calculation, you need to replace new on. Use R=V/I to calculate the resistance value.

3) Check the continuity of thermocouple. If the thermocouple fails, it also damage the heating element and your rice cooker. You can feel your rice cooker too hot and don't turn of automatically, that the sign the thermocouple get spoil. So use multi meter to check continuity on thermocouple,if it fail replace new one.The continuity value must be 0 ohm.

TO MAKE YOUR RICE COOKER LAST LONG CHECK THE COMPONENT ONCE IN TWO MONTHS. IF DON'T WORK COMPLETELY THROW AWAY AND BUY NEW ONE. MAYBE PANASONIC RICE COOKER IS GOOD I GUESS.

Why love birds dating on wire while siting without electrocute

Just take a moment and look at your house window. You will see nice sunshine with beautiful clouds and love birds sit on wires. But wait!!! How love birds can sit on wires ? Why does the bird get electrocute and get fried like KFC chicken? Alright dummies you have lots of questions about these love birds sit on wire and there you are in right place to know it.

Dummies lets learn the factors why love birds doesn't get electrocute

You can see birds on Low,Medium and Hog voltage transmission and service line. So the thing is why birds don't get electrocute even the conductor isn't have any insulation.

 So there's factor that birds get electrocute.

1) Phase - Phase

2) Phase - Ground

3) Phase - Neutral

Before explaining these factors,let see why current didn't travel through instead travel through conductor. As we human and any other animal species even we cant act as a conductor there's also resistance in human and animal body. 

When the bird sit on wire, the current will travel through the wire instead travel through the bird. This is because the current always choose less resistance material. So in this case the conductor is less resistance than the bird, so the current will travel through the conductor. But that never going to be end for the bird being alive on the wire. Even the current ravel through conductor, there's also a little bit current in the bird also but it won't get electrocute because the current is too little.So the potential difference between the wire and the bird are zero. 

Now let talk about what happen if the bird touch other wire accidentally. This is where the birds going to fry like KFC chicken. Remember those three factor I mentioned above,that;s the reason why birds get electrocute and get fry. If the bird touch the another current carrying conductor, this will make a potential difference between the wire which the bird sit and another wire which the bird touch. this will be unbalance current and unfortunately the bird will electrocuted.

There's another thing that bird touch the ground or neutral wire while siting on live wire will get electrocute. This is because if the bird touch the ground wire this will complete one loop, even it's touch the neutral wire also. If you don't know difference between neutral and earth go check out (Neutral and Earth are friends) post.

 So while seeing love birds are still siting on wire,let these birds enjoy dating on wires and it going to be safe unless its touch the other live or ground wire to get fry like KFC chicken.  

Wires are so special with colors

Whatever wires you have,it's always colorful!! Wires are amazing as always acts like a nerve to the electricity. Many wiring in electrical panel,house wiring, are connect with colorful of wires So why colors are so vital to wires and what's the important role to wired wires according to colors.

To know about why colors are important, we need to know what standard our country is using. The major standard are using in electrical panel are IEC standard or NEC Standard,

This standards are decide the color for each conductor are used in wiring. Like Live for red color, Neutral for blue color and Earth for green for yellow green strip.

Like in my country Malaysia are IEC British Standard, so my country follows British standard. While in America and Japan, follow NEC means used national standard. Mean while even the generation to homes and Industrial are also determine by these standard. In Malaysia used 240V for single phase and 415V in three phase with 50Hz or 60Hz. While in America and Japan Use 120V for single phase and 240V for three phase with 60Hz.

Now lets get back to the color thing. So why colored wires are introduce among countries with several standards. The reason are wires need to connect in right connection according to the functions of color wires. Furthermore, It's easy to do maintenance which wires are connect to the right color and function. This will easy to to do maintenance by recognizing the right color of wire.

At last, wires are play important role in electrical systems. A right wire give a right connection. If the connection wring, you will get some shocking moments!!!! So let make right connection to give power our homes.

 ELECTRIFYING FACT OF THE DAY
PEOPLE WHO SUFFER COLOR BLINDNESS HAVE HARD TIME TO SEE THE  COLOR OF LIVE AS RED WIRE AND EARTH AS GREEN WIRE.

How to wire Chandelier Lights

When you walk in a billionaire's home or millionaire's home you will always amaze by seeing the huge home and the bright chandelier lights. Chandelier lights may be huge,medium or small size, but you need to know how it works and how to wire it. Wait!!!! so what should I do now? Well dummies pack up your tools and get ready to do some handyman stuff!!

WARNING :

 BE CAREFUL WHEN YOU INSTALL CHANDELIER LIGHTS. IF YOU NOT HANDLE THE CHANDELIER LIGHT PROPERLY, IT MAY CAUSE DAMAGE TO THE CHANDELIER LIGHT AND COST MUCH TO REPLACE IT.

Chandelier works by glowing 5-10+ lights in single isolate wiring. So you no need to do wire inside the chandelier because,it's already done,so you just need to wire the live and neutral connection. So lets look how to hang the chandelier lights.

First Step : Select a perfect spot on ceiling to install for perfect view.

Installing chandelier light bulb isn't enough. You need to select a perfect spot to install. This will give a perfect view in the house interior.

Second Step : Now hook up the chandelier on the ceiling. 

Make sure you are in right focus to install without damaging the chandelier. Some chandelier has it's own hooks with screw,but some chandelier don't give hooks,so if there's already got hooks in ceiling you can use that too.

Third Step : Wire the chandelier light.

Chandelier lights has given the Live and Neutral terminal. So you need to just pull wire from distribution board to the chandelier light. Another thing you should know is chandelier light use one 6A MCB. This is because, chandelier light has many light bulbs so it's safe just to use single MCB without connecting other lights.

Forth Step : Add Dimmer Switch (Optional )

Some customers will recommend dimmer switch to control the light intensity. If the chandelier too bright the power consumption will rise and also electrical bill rise also.

Final Step : Test the chandelier light and installation complete

When you are done hook up the chandelier light and the wiring,finally you need to test for sure the light works properly. If you wired with dimmer switch turn clock wise or anti clock wise to see the changes in light intensity and the light bulbs glowing in the chandelier.

ALRIGHT DUMMIES!!!! I HOPE YOU ABLE TO WIRE ANY CHANDELIER LIGHT WITH THIS GUIDE. SO ALWAYS BE CAREFUL WHILE HANDLING THE CHANDELIER LIGHT AND STAY ELECTRIFYING