Day 1 – Etec Practical Course

By | March 13, 2017

Spent the morning testing 4 appliances. 3 heaters and a toaster. The toaster had the earth disconnected on purpose to see if we could find the fault. This gave us practice of going through AS/NZS 3760 of appliance testing and knowing off the top of our heads Visual Earth Insulation Resistance Polarity Key points to… Read More »

Freeboard.io dashboard

By | February 24, 2017

A very neat open source dashboard tool that is very simple to use. Unfortunately the documentation that comes with it is far from complete but I managed to get something up and running. It is also mobile friendly as well.

Neat site for svg icons

By | February 17, 2017

This site http://www.flaticon.com has a whole bunch of cool svg for download. SVG stands for Scalable Vector Graphics and uses XML to draw images that do not lose resolution when scaled up. To test your SVG, this site here is very handy https://www.w3schools.com/html/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml_svg_circle

The best diagram for a 3 way switch.

By | February 10, 2017

This video explains a 2 way switch with an intermediate switch in the middle very well. The key is not to get hung up on the labels of the intermediate switch but to use a multi meter to figure out the parallel or the cross over position. This is because the intermediate switch could be… Read More »

Content Inc: Joe Pulizzi

By | January 18, 2017

An interesting book about creating great content to attract business. One interesting take away is to first create great content. Then figure out what to do next.