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Benefits of Electric Beds

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Adjustable beds are all the rage since they enable people to have a good night’s sleep as well as being able to cure their erratic sleeping patterns as well as other illnesses that are attributed to poor sleeping habits. Adjustable electric beds, however, are a hybrid of the two popular beds, the adjustable bed as well as the electric beds – comes in full force with various key features that will make sleeping an incredibly great experience for you.

Adjustable electric beds have all sorts of great features –

- The optional headboard hugger mechanisms 
- Objects on the night table will be easy to reach 
- Easy remote controls 
- Adjustable leverage 
- No wires 
- Maximum comfort 
- Vibrating massage function

1. Two Motors

Another great feature of the adjustable electric bed – two motors are provided for the full support of a person’s body to maximize the relaxation benefits. The motors are extremely quiet and can be controlled at the touch of a button.

2. Standard or custom mattresses

Choose from the mattresses that best support your body so that you will be ensured with a good night’s sleep.

There are four sizes for the adjustable electric bed that people can choose from –

- Twin extra long is a 38x80 mattress 
- Full extra long adjustable electric bed is sized at a 54x80 mattress 
- Queen sized adjustable electric bed is a 60x80 mattress 
- Dual king is the size of two twin extra long adjustable electric bed units placed side by side

3. Benefits of Adjustable Beds

There are a lot of healthy benefits from the adjustable electric beds. From curing insomnia to waking up feeling refreshed and totally relaxed. The adjustable electric beds are able to give people the proper support that their bodies need so as to relieve tension from the various pressure points in the body. Adjustable electric beds can equally distribute the weight of a person to avoid aching joints or sore body parts.

An adjustable electric bed is really a great investment for people who want to be able to fully enjoy the comforts of being able to sleep soundly on a bed that can also cater to their sleeping needs. Everyone from people who are overworked at the office or just stressed over just about anything. It will be able to clear your head from such thoughts as you sleep so that you will feel energized and rejuvenated the following morning. Stress free people are proven to be more efficient and productive employees as compared to those who are overworked and highly stressed.

Bathroom Electrical Wiring – Issues and Safety Precautions

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According to the Consumer Product Safety Commission, tens of thousands of fires happen all over the United States every year that are caused by electrical issues. Besides the millions of property damage that are incurred, there is also the unfortunate loss of life that happens in hundreds of these kinds of cases. There are also hundreds of consumer products that can cause electrocution and death (especially with bathroom electrical wiring), so it is best that the appropriate safety precautions are done in order to prevent any sort of unfortunate incident to happen.

A Volatile and Dangerous Mix

It is a well known fact that water and electricity just do not mix. It is a very deadly combination. So you can just imagine the kinds of dangers you have with bathroom electrical wiring systems. Of course, no one can eliminate entirely the need for bathroom electrical wiring systems – with outlets for dryers, heaters, lights, and all other electrical appliances you use in the bathroom, all you can really do is to observe the proper safety precautions and steps to make sure that the electrical system in your bathroom is safe for you and all who use the bathroom.

Some Safety Tips

1. Have a GFCI device installed.
The National Safety Code requires the installation of a Ground Fault Circuit Interrupter or GFCI to be able to deal with cases of having to install outlets in bathrooms. This is to minimize the incidence of electrocution or any other electrical incident that involves the mix of water and bathroom electrical wiring through sockets and outlets. GFCI units are designed to cut off the supply of electricity to an outlet when there is a loss of current in a circuit.

2. Have some exhaust fans installed.
Imagine coming home from a long and hard day’s work to enjoy a relaxing time in the tub, or maybe just taking a long, warm shower. Your body dissipates heat during these times, so leaving a bathroom unventilated will cause moisture and humidity to accumulate inside. This poses danger to your bathroom electrical wiring, so it is best to install an exhaust fan so that air can circulate inside the bathroom space and no steam or moisture will build up inside.

3. Have moisture-splash proof switches.
There will be times when you need to open a light switch with wet hands, or maybe forget to dry your hands before you touch and turn on the switch. You can also have children who will inevitably splash water on your switches. To avoid the risk for any short circuits and electrocution, it is recommended that you install splash proof switches as part of your bathroom electrical wiring system. This will prevent water from entering the switch and coming into contact with the wiring system.

Even in the bathroom, we need to have bathroom electrical wiring installed. It’s an inescapable fact that we have incorporated the use of electricity even in environments where we use water. Fortunately though, there are steps we can follow and safety precautions we can observe to minimize – if not entirely eliminate – the risk for any electricity related incidents and injuries. And you can’t go wrong with hiring a professional electrician to look over your bathroom electrical wiring.

What is an Electrical Current?

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We all learnt at school in our science class that electricity is the flow of electrical power or current through a conductor or circuit. But electricity does not actually exist as an electrical quantity it is a commonly used generic term given to the movement or flow of electrical charge through a conductor. For example, we say that a river has a current flowing in it but this current is actually the movement of the water. If the water is stationary then there is no current flowing in the river and this is the same for electrical current. Electrical current results from the movement or flow of electrical charges from one point to another with the word current meaning the “flow of charge”.

Electrical charge is produced when free electrons leave the outer orbits of their respective atoms and move in a controlled direction from one atom to another through the conductor as a result of a force or energy being applied to them. This movement of free electrons through a conductor is known as drift which constitutes an electrical current flow. Then electrical current can be known as the rate of movement of charge.

All conductors such as metals contain large amounts of electrons that are loosely connected to the nucleus of their respective atoms and so can easily move through the material from atom to atom. Therefore metals are full of charge making them conductive as opposed to insulators whose electrons are held tightly to their nucleus preventing them from moving. In some metals such as copper there is an abundance of these free electrons that randomly move about from atom to atom thereby making copper highly conductive.

So why do we not get an electrical shock when we touch a copper pipe?. Well, this random movement of electrons from atom to atom does not result in a current flow as the electrons are constantly moving about in all different directions at once cancelling each other out so their combined movement in any one direction is zero. This random unorganised movement results in the overall electrical charge of the material being zero making it electrically neutral so we could say that the electrical charge in the copper pipe is uncharged.

However, some of these free electrons can line up together on the outer surface of the copper pipe as they are restricted from moving about causing the surface of the metal to become negatively charged. Since the electrons are not moving the surface generates a negative static electrical charge known commonly as “Static Electricity” or simply electricity at rest.

Connecting a battery to the copper causes all these free electrons to stop floating about, line up and move in the same direction resulting in an orderly flow of charge from one point to another and therefore a current. Then electrical current has a definite direction. We always think of electrical current flowing from the positive battery terminal to the negative battery terminal and we call this movement “conventional current flow”. The reality is the reverse, electrons move in the opposite direction as they are attracted to the positive pole of the battery and are repelled by the negative pole. Then this direction is called electron flow.

An electrical current that flows in one direction only all the time is said to be direct current (dc), while an electrical current that alternates back and forth in direction of flow is said to be an alternating current (ac). We measure the flow of charge in terms of amperes, abbreviated to “A” or just simply “amps”.

The amount of electrical charge that passes a point in a circuit at any one time is measured in COULOMBS abbreviated to “C”, with one coulomb of charge flowing per second being equal to one ampere. One coulomb is approximately equal to an excess or deficiency of more than 6 trillion electrons, 1 coulomb = 6.28 x 10^18.

So going back to our original question of “what is an electrical current” we can now say that an electrical current is an orderly flow of electrical charge through a conductor or circuit and which is measured in amperes.