Sentences with phrase «using circuit breakers»

Power on AC grids can be disconnected relatively easily using circuit breakers, which fire off just at the point when the cyclic alternating current momentarily reaches zero.

Using circuit breakers means a crash would almost certainly be drawn out over several days.

«I agree with the Governor that public funds to provide property tax relief for renters and property owners should use a circuit breaker approach to reach those who most need relief.

These devices are used to isolate portions of the transmission system where current flow has been interrupted (using a circuit breaker).

Be sure to take note of whether your electricity uses a circuit breaker or fuse box, and let your insurer know how your home is heated.

Not exact matches

User «ROWSE,» who has achieved the rank of «Cool Cruiser» (congrats ROWSE) wanted to know back in 2012 whether her stateroom would allow for two hair dryers to be used at once without tripping a circuit breaker.

He didn't use the phrase himself, but the property tax credit unveiled yesterday by Governor Andrew Cuomo is of the type commonly known as a «circuit breaker.»

But in a real way, controlling spending is linked to property taxes: Cuomo wants to use the planned surplus to help pay for a $ 1.66 billion property - tax relief plan that is his administration's version of the circuit - breaker program, which ties relief to a household's income.

Unfortunately, Cuomo's tax cap combined with unnamed cuts to state spending to create the surplus needed to pay for the circuit breaker means that what he gives with one hand in a circuit breaker he takes back with the other hand as cuts to the schools and municipal services these same people use,» said Hawkins.

Property tax circuit breakers can address these and similar problems by providing tax refunds based on annual income — often using information from income tax returns — and property tax bills.

Other reforms Hawkins is calling for include a windfall tax on pharmaceutical companies» opioid wealth, a surtax on high - dollar pass - through income from LLCs and other pass - through vehicles, a clawback of the new federal tax cuts if not used to increase workers» pay, home rule for local income taxes, and tax credit «circuit breakers» to protect low - to - moderate income tenants and homeowners from unaffordable rents and property taxes.

Instead, they propose using circuit - breaker algorithms that will trip when trading becomes erratic.

Some vehicles use self - resetting circuit breakers instead of fuses on critical circuits (the ones that I know of are on the headlights, but it seems like the running lights and signal lights would also be candidates for circuit breakers.

I can only answer definetively about the battery, most batteries lose some charge when not in use, but in order to minimize that you might have a circuit breaker (switch) installed that enables you to disconnect the battery from the car's electrical system when the car is not in use.

Circuit breakers: Trading halts, curtailment of automated trading systems and / or price movement limits used by the exchanges to attempt to prevent the free - fall of stock or stock index futures markets.

Breaker Blocks is a tabletop game where players use laser - cut, acrylic tiles to build up their own circuits while simultaneously attempting to sabotage their opponent's.

Because you will be using more electricity you may need to hire an electrician, upgrade your circuit breaker panel, and put in additional circuits for equipment such as the HRV.

Disconnectors and ground switches use SF6 primarily for insulation, and individually, they contain only slightly less SF6 than a circuit breaker.

SF6 is a non-hazardous, inert gas that is used both as an arc quenching and insulating medium in high - voltage switchgear, circuit breakers and gas insulated substations.

Since the 1950's, the U.S. electric power industry has used SF6 in circuit breakers, gas - insulated substations and other switchgear used in the transmission system to manage the high voltages carried between generating stations and customer load centers.

TARP was supposed to be a circuit breaker by buying up the toxic assets easing reserve and insurance requirements but so far not a dime of TARP money has been used to buy up those toxic assets it was billed as being for.

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If the right fuse or circuit breaker isn't used, it can cause a dangerous situation.

Since the 1960s circuit breakers have been used instead of fuses.

Those should all be # 12 wire Think about it, your standing there just out of the shower and circuit breaker trips from high use,, lights go out you cant see to get clothed enough to get to the basement to fix.

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Such a person who would break such a code (use wrong size circuit breaker) is not more likely to use 12g wiring because the code calls for it rather than the cheaper 14g.

Fused subpanels were an overcurrent protection precursor to circuit breakers and were used widely in residential construction pre-1960.