They say to unplug unused devices to save on electricity, but what if you just unplug the device from its power supply, and leave the power supply plugged into the wall outlet?
Does it still use electricity?

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Say for example the electricity is not working or there is a water leak, and we can’t get in contact with the landlord. Are we within our rights as tenants to call out an electrician or plumber for example and then charge the landlord? I am in the UK.

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we just moved into a new house, it was built about 5 years ago, and has had one previous owner. after moving in we had an electric problem, where the outlets in all of the master bedroom stopped working, we ended up having to get an electrician to come out and figure out the problem. he found that the outlets were corroded, which was not allowing electricity to flow thru them, and they needed replaced. we had asked the electrician why they would have been corroded and he said that it is possible that the previous owner was making meth in the house because the chemicals used to create meth can corrode metal. and we have been looking thru the house for other signs of meth, and both bathtub drains are corroded, which could be because the previous owner was pouring the chemicals down the drains.

do you think that with this information, it is possible that the previous owner was making meth here?

we are very worried about this…

we have been told that if meth residue is found in the house, the only way to completely get rid of it is to gut the entire house. and if he did pour the chemicals down the drains, the septic system will have to be replaced.

–we have been told that we can take legal action against the previous owner for not telling us, if it does come to the a positive meth reading.

–we have also been told that “in home tests” are not reliable, we would have to have the house tests professionally, which can be expensive.

we are wanting to know what other people think before we go thru with the tests.

thanks in advance.

RECAP:
electrical outlets corroded and replaced
bathtub drains corroded

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I am working on some simple DC experiments and just generally screwing around with electricity, and I was wondering why the amperage rating on negative power supply rails is always only a few hundred milliamperes. If I want to provide 24VDC for a circuit by using +12v and -12v (is this correct?) am I limited to the current of the -12v rail? How does this work? Thanks.

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I’m going to be going to school for Maintenance Electricity and Construction Technology at an accredited technical school called Triangle Tech. Getting cold feet…live in Erie PA

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