How to Use Electricity Safely at Home?

Compared with winter, the high temperature in summer not only makes the human body feel hot, but also home appliances. The load on air conditioners, fans, and refrigerators increases in summer. Coupled with thunderstorms, electrical accidents and even fires are prone to occur.

On the one hand, the frequency of use of air conditioners and electric fans increases in summer, which greatly increases the power used by household circuits. On the other hand, electrical appliances, including computer hosts, have an autonomous cooling system that keeps working in summer, which also increases the power of electrical appliances. When multiple rooms use air conditioners at the same time, the current carrying capacity of the home circuit doubles. If you are not careful, if the current exceeds the carrying capacity of the wire, the wire will overheat, which may cause a circuit fire. Be careful not to plug the power strip into the electrical multi plug. To avoid potential safety hazards caused by heavy circuit loads, we must first use wires with high safety factors and power socket brass parts.

Household electricity should be equipped with a qualified leakage protector with overvoltage protection to ensure personal safety when using household appliances.

Household fires are caused by sockets. As we all know, sockets have a flame-retardant temperature. This "flame-retardant" does not mean that the product can prevent burning or the product itself does not burn during a fire. But when the switch socket is short-circuited, the current passing through the socket increases instantly, causing the temperature to rise sharply, which may reach the burning temperature, causing the switch plug socket to burn. The universal switch socket with high flame-retardant temperature can automatically extinguish the flame for a period of time without energizing continuously without igniting other objects.

Generally speaking, kitchen appliances are more powerful. Therefore, the bus entering the kitchen should be routed separately, and the wire diameter should not be less than 4 square millimeters. In addition, it is best to use a single switch socket for each electrical appliance separately to avoid excessive current from causing damage to the socket. All wall switches and sockets should be avoided to be installed beside gas stoves and gas pipes.

The socket of the microwave oven is best installed at the back of the microwave oven, which will be more beautiful. But if you have the habit of unplugging, you can also choose to install the switch plug outlet on the left and right sides of the microwave, so that you can avoid the trouble of unplugging.

If the socket of the built-in oven is installed directly behind the oven, the position of the socket should be 0.3 meters longer than the depth of the oven. You can also put the oven switch socket in the cabinet next to it or in another free position, so you can control the power more conveniently.

With frequent thunderstorms in summer, thunder and lightning can bring a lot of safety hazards to household appliances. It is best not to use electrical and electronic equipment when thundering, as thunder and lightning will interfere with the screen image and sound signal. The lightning impulse current is as high as tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of amperes. Improper circuit settings can easily cause lightning current intrusion, which is very dangerous.

The residual voltage and induced lightning caused by lightning will impact electrical equipment and the fuse distribution box, causing short circuit, electrical burning, and explosion hazards in household circuits.

Electrical fires are prone to occur in hot weather. Therefore, the safety of electricity consumption every day cannot be ignored.