A Knoxville house fire Wednesday marks the second electrical fire in just 48 hours caused by overloading a power strip.

The boxes on outdoor electrical outlets can be quite cumbersome to ... If you're DIY-ing some lighting ideas for your backyard patio that requires having an electrical cord plugged in all the ...

If wires and cords twist around your house like a jungle, your power strips seem to reproduce themselves overnight, and you have a box of unidentified wires in your closet, you’re not alone.

Intuitively, male-to-male electrical cords are an easy solution to this dilemma, but they aren’t a safe one. ... You plug one end into the generator and the other end into a wall outlet.

While Sec. 400.10(A)(2) does give permission to use flexible cords and flexible cables for wiring of luminaires, Sec. 400.12 places restrictions on what we can and cannot do with flexible cords, ...

Extension cords and power strips are fine for everyday devices, but using them with certain appliances - especially in summer ...

Fourteen-gauge and 12-gauge extension cords are some of the most common extension cords. A 14-gauge cord can handle up to 1,800 watts, or 15 amps, the same as a standard wall outlet in the US.

The automaker is recalling approximately 50,000 120-volt charge cords that were bundled with its 2012-15 Ford Focus Electric, 2013-15 Ford Fusion Energi and 2013-15 Ford C-MAX Energi autos.