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electrical

16/12/2014
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The World’s Worst Power Cuts

A recent report highlighted that ‘Severe Economic Consequences’ would hit the UK in the event of a serious power outage. The Royal Academy of Engineering reported that although the likelihood of a power outage in the UK is low, any disruption would cost billions of pounds. The UK was given a taste of such disruption this week after London Airspace was briefly closed because of a power outage at the NATS control centre in Swanwick. The report issued by the academy comes at a time when worldwide many countries with... Read More

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What Are The Risks of Counterfeit Electrical Devices?

There is a huge, ever increasing, market for counterfeit electrical devices and although these items can be bought at a bargain price they can be highly unstable, here we look into the risks of using such counterfeit products. One of the reasons the sale of counterfeit electrical devices is increasing could be due to the amount of fake products being sold online. Even in person counterfeit products are hard to distinguish from the real thing, online criminals can market the fake goods using an image of the actual product and... Read More