Whether it is from storms or a fault in your home’s wiring, when the power goes out life gets difficult. Hopefully, you are able to talk to your Santa Monica electrical company and power is restored quickly. However, it is important to prepare yourself for the worst. Consider the following tips to make your next power outage more bearable. In the meantime, contact a Santa Monica electrician, such as The Electric Connection, to see if there are improvements you can make to your home’s wiring system to reduce the chances of a power outage.

Power Outage Tips

Prepare Ahead by Keeping the Following Items on Hand

If you are ready to make changes to your home’s electrical system, call the expert electrician in Santa Monica—The Electric Connection. You can also reach the company by searching for “electrician Santa Monica” and visit the website at ElectricConnection.com .  One of our experts will be happy to discuss your power options.

When facility managers or building owners first start the search for new replacement lighting fixtures in their facility, it can seem like a long road ahead.

From all of the read this post where we talk all about what it is. From there, you can come back to this post and continue, it will really help you keep up! Now, let’s get into when high bay lighting is practical in both broad terms and specific applications it is best used in.

In broader terms, the most appropriate time to use a high bay lighting fixture is for ceiling heights that are between 20 to 40 feet high. For heights between 15 to 20, you typically are going to go with a low bay fixture, but that’s for an entirely different post. For anything lower, you will typically be dealing with tubes and panels lights, most often found in offices, hallways, and other similar type environments.

So for commercial and industrial type environments in which the ceiling height is 20 to 40 feet tall, a high bay lighting fixture is commonly the most chosen lighting fixture to install. That is the broad definition of when high bay fixtures are going to be used at the most optimal rates.

So, what types of high bays are often used and fit the purpose perfectly. Although these applications are highly relevant, there are some we have not listed and may have missed, but these are just a few of many very practical applications that high bays work perfectly in:

Gymnasiums

Think about your school gym, or even your warehouses often have tall ceilings due to storage space requirements, this need for space vertically makes their ceilings the perfect height for high bay fixtures.

Factories

Similarly to a warehouse, factories and production facilities need proper lighting to keep things safe and consistent. With proper lighting through installation of high quality high bays (such as with LED technology), you opt-in for better safety standards and higher consistency in your production efforts.

Airplane Hangars

Large airplanes call for large ceilings in the hangars and a proper lighting system is a must for this environment. When maintenance is required, you need clear and proper light to contact one of our professionals.

If you are at familiar with the design and operation of a radiant heating system, then you actually have a basic idea of how snow melting systems and de-icing cables work. De-icing cables, which heat up via electric resistance heating, may be installed beneath walkways, driveways, and other paved areas, and the heat that they emanate will help in keeping those surfaces free of ice. This is, obviously, a great advantage in keeping your property safe for pedestrian traffic throughout the winter season, as well as for ensuring good traction when leaving by vehicle. De-icing cables can also be installed in rain gutters, which makes a huge difference in keeping them free of ice. When the sun beats down on your roof, snow and ice can melt. It can then refreeze in your gutters, potentially causing damage via ice dams.

Snow melting systems can also utilize hydronic systems, in which a boiler heats water, and that water is distributed throughout a system of tubing. The end result is the same. The heat radiates through the surface above the tubing, and the snow is cleared away. To learn more about such systems, or to have them installed by trained technicians, give the professional electricians on our staff a call.