Tag: mains

Imagine you won't need electricity mains wherever you are outside! PowerPlant by Nuuq is trying to solve this issue by providing its charging mains-alike power bank. PowerPlant is light enough to be convenient to carry, suitable for you backpack and is TSA approved. Also, it is powerful...

This project is about an accurate mains frequency meter that has a bar-graph displaying the relative deviation from nominal frequency. It can work with 50Hz and 60Hz systems. An article by Dieter Laues in the February 2012 issue of Elektor inspired me to get my soldering iron out....

Brian Dorey has designed a mains energy monitor based on ESP8266 that have sensors for the mains current, electric meter and gas meter. As the new solar logger did not have this functionality we decided to design a new data-logger that would measure not only the mains current usage...

MAINS Power Dimmer / Switch Module project by Tracker J: Now it’s about time to talk also about what many of you has asked for: DIMMING! It’s a total different story, little bit complicated but, as you will see, not so hard to understand. General considerations: There are...