Month: February 2014

Car maintenance costs eating into your budget?

Maintenance Costs – keeping your car running without breaking your wallet. Nothing in life is certain except death, taxes and ridiculous automobile maintenance costs. [gard] While we cannot stave off the former two you can keep your wits about for the latter, your car running costs. All men like to drive either huge luxury cars,…

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Demystifying Water Evaporative Coolers Anyone?

Are Water Evaporative Coolers as good as their claims? [gard] Three trains of thought from three different individuals, two of them ‘experts’ in air flow, refrigeration and air conditioning and one, a professional installer of a known brand. What they say about water evaporative coolers: Won’t work in our environment, too close to the sea…

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Getting to know common Technical Jargon

Technical Jargon: Much confusion amongst the different power factors. There are three common areas of confusion when one is caught up in the world of electronics or the auto trade: Shaft, BHP,  Horsepower and Torque Peak Music Power, RMS Power, Continuous Power VA ratings compared to Watts In the real world most of us mere…

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The Worlds biggest suppliers of Engine Parts

Engine Parts – why the big deal? Over the years the biggest advancement seen on the internet is social interaction and marketing and while big name brands such as Toyota car, Honda motorcycles and Texas Instruments have a significant online presence it has become quite difficult to sift through the mountains of online stores which…

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