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What you're smelling is the odor of activated carbon. I know that everyone has told you that activated carbon absorbs odors, but it isn't actually true. Activated carbon "adsorbs" some chemicals, which means that it holds onto the chemicals temporarily before releasing them back into the air...

The two paragraphs after the ones that I quoted were referring to "initial attempts" and "the next attempt", and not to the current products that were discussed before those paragraphs.

Where in the article does it say that? From the article:

The same is often said about technological innovations that reduce costs. There's often a trade-off that causes people to label the less expensive variation as "cheap." I think that may be the case here as well.

Well, this gets pretty technical, but there is a newer variant of the LED bulb that doesn't need a driver at all, and can connect directly to a household 120V AC connection. They're also sometimes referred to as "driverless" LED bulbs. On a technical level, since a LED is a diode, it can only...

In the case of a multi-wire branch circuits, Tesla did keep those two circuits together and installed them on a handle-tied breaker, which ensured that one was on the A-leg and one was on the B-leg (though they may have swapped the legs). But, other circuits were moved haphazardly from one...

Correction: Where I wrote: "And in very rare cases, it could cause a neutral to overload, though that would require that both of the circuits be on the same left and that one of the two neutrals also become loose or disconnected downstream from the location where they are shared." I meant...

That's a great point. A multi-wire branch circuit does indeed "share" a neutral wire with a single A-leg circuit and a single B-leg circuit, but that's okay. Because the A-leg and the B-leg are out of phase with one another, the neutral is only ever carrying electrons back from one of the...

Hi Everyone, I had two Powerwalls installed in early 2021 and since then have experienced quite a few flickering issues. Some happened even when I was on grid power, and some happen when I was timeshifting (powerwall supplying power with the grid up), and some only happen when I'm totally...