Space heaters are good for warming a room but they can be a serious fire hazard if you plant them in the wrong spot. Here's ...

Space heaters provide supplemental warmth but they also pose a fire risk. Here are nine spots you should never put an indoor ...

It’s a great choice if you don’t have a heat gun ... there’s an aluminum guide strip on one side of the MDF platform. You can salvage Nichrome wire from an old hair dryer.

Then strip back the sheathing 2 in. and the wire insulation 5/8 in. Use two special underground splice kits (sold at home centers) to connect the new cable section. Slide the heat shrink tube over ...

Strip heaters clamp or bolt onto objects into order to heat a variety of materials. When used as radiant heaters, they include finned strips to maximize surface area and heat transfer to the air.

Having a fire alarm in your garage is important, especially if your home has an attached garage or a garage near rooms where ...

I turned the heater on. Five seconds later, the power strip blew up. This might not have been the single dumbest thing I’d ever done in my life. But as I watched the sparks fade from the ...

While addressable LED strips are all the rage, [Mike] from [mikeselectricstuff] has been working on an installation using the more basic two-wire strips that are simply controlled via PWM dimming.

When a heater draws too much current through ... In the worst case, it can start a fire. Furthermore, the wiring in power strips is typically thinner and not designed to support continuous ...

He once blew up a power strip with a space heater and a Marshall half-stack. New Pick We’ve added the De’longhi HMP1500 Mica Panel Heater as a new pick for anyone hoping to save some floor space.

At lunchtime on Election Day, I popped over to the Good Guys Club in Glover Park. I wondered if political stress could infect even a gentleman’s club, a place people go to escape their maddening ...