Electrical Industry Articles and Stories

Controlling commercial outdoor lighting isn’t only important for energy efficiency, it’s also important for human and animal health. Excessive outdoor lighting can affect sleeping patterns, impact bird migration and deprive all of us of views of the nighttime sky.

Correlated color temperature (CCT) has become a hot topic in commercial outdoor lighting, as many have argued LED-based fixtures are just too, well, cool. In part, this is because this newer technology produces a different kind of light than the high-pressure sodium and metal halide fixtures we all became accustomed to during those technologies’ decades of outdoor use.

There are great products that make a contractor's life easier as far as fan and fixture placement is concerned. Whether you're doing new construction or retrofit "old work," there are box options that make installs easier.

And some of them keep the drywall guys from messing with you.

October is fire safety month. Home electrical fires account for an estimated $1.5 billion in property damage each year. Gardner Bender’s testers make it easy and safe to test electrical systems and avoid accidents.
 
As a part of fire safety, it is important to have smoke alarms that work properly and are installed with a fully charged battery. Gardner Bender offers several solutions for testing multiple types of batteries, including our GBT-3502 Household Battery Tester and our GBT-500A Analog Battery Tester.

With Lutron flexible, wireless lighting control solutions you can rapidly reconfigure existing spaces to promote social distancing, help reduce the number of things employees and visitors have to touch during the day and install up to 70% faster than a wired solution.

If you're a J.R.R. Tolkien fan, you recognized that headline reference. Or if you're a movie buff and watched the Lord of the Rings trilogy, you're familiar with the little jar of liquid that lit up when you talked to it.

But in any case, if you're an electrician, you've been in dark places because of power outages or new construction.

I've been in my share of them, for sure.