This winter, Mr. Electric® wants to help you power your tomorrow by choosing the best holiday lighting gadgets. We searched all around to find you the top four lights and tools for your home displays!

This is a great way to light your outdoors without using energy and without using an outlet. The sun will charge the lights during the day and will turn on automatically when the sun sets. Each package contains 50 lights over 23 feet, making this an affordable alternative to outdoor lighting.

Source: Solar Powered Light Strings

This is a durable and heavy duty timer that helps you control your holiday lights.  It has one grounded outlet and a manual ON/OFF switch. This comes with an 18-inch cord and grounded plug to make it a durable timer that’s a safe choice to use on Christmas lights, landscape lighting or fountains.

Source: Outdoor Timer

These LED light strips are designed to be versatile. You can cut or bend them to fit your custom displays. The hue app allows you to change your light colors and turn ON/OFF all from your mobile device or tablet. We also love the efficiency of these lights and have a good feeling more and more people will began using these, instead of the traditional lights, in the future.

Source: LED Light Strips

The Light Keeper Pro is a small hand-held tool capable of fixing mini light sets, icicle and net light sets, yard decorations, pre-lit trees and wreaths. Simply plug in your light set and press the trigger to repair most of your lighting problems.

Source: Light Keeper Pro

Show off your holiday light displays by tagging us in them on our Facebook page. Don’t forget – if you need some holiday lighting help, you can give us a call and we will set up and take down for you!

Walking into the same house you have lived in for years may bring mixed emotions. It is a place of comfort and safety. You love coming home, but maybe you walk through the door and see all the things you would like to change in the home. Maybe you dream of a more modern look or a classical style that is more in line with your personal tastes. Big home remodels and renovations can get expensive and they can take some time. If you are looking for a quick fix that will give your home a new look and feel, you need to call an electrician in Los Angeles. The team at The Electric Connection can help you get the new look you have been dreaming about, but haven’t been able to do just yet.

Believe it or not, enhancing your home can be fairly easy and take less than a couple of hours to do. Dramatic lighting changes can completely change the way a room looks. Adding track lighting with LEDs to a kitchen and getting rid of that boring old fixture is a breeze with a Los Angeles electrician on board. You shouldn’t try to do it yourself. Electricity isn’t something an inexperienced person should ever mess with.

A dark space tends to look smaller and more boxy. You can open up your kitchen, bedroom or living room with the right lighting. Taking it into the ceiling with recessed lights is also an option explains an electrician. Los Angeles homeowners that want to give their old look a face lift can do so with the easy job of changing out a light fixture. When you shop around for light fixtures, you will be amazed at how inexpensive a dramatic change can be. Give The Electric Connection a call today and schedule your lighting upgrade.

Being the owner of a plant is a big responsibility and it is very important to keep your equipment in working condition. You need to remember that all your maintenance must be planned in an efficient way for both economic and energy efficiency.

Usually when you choose to partake in your routine maintenance, it may cause a delay in your production resulting in loss of income. All safety electrical equipment that is used on a continuous basis will require a lot more maintenance than your equipment that is used rarely, although they will still need to be maintained.

Even though you may maintain your equipment on a regular basis there will be times that your equipment could break. You will then need to take all costs into consideration before deciding whether you should repair the equipment or to just replace it completely.

To help you decide, you should analyze what you have already spent on the equipment as well as what it will cost to maintain it in the future. Once you have done that you should compare it to what it would cost you to acquire newer equipment that may cost less to maintain.

You could also hire a specialist that could create a breakdown of important factors such as the probability of the following:

To run a successful plant you will also need to keep the following important steps in mind: