The Courier News from Blytheville, Arkansas • Page 23

FRIDAY, APRIL 30, 1954 SLYTHlflAI CAWL) COTJlIBIt N1WB FAQK Home Appliance Load Requires Adequate Wiring Lack of Sufficient Wiring Adds to Cost of Electricity By DAVID G. BAREUTHER AP Real Estate Editor MOST OP US are paying for electricity we are not getting. The reason, experts say, is that our homes are inadequately wired. We are trying to get a fire hose flow of electricity through a soda straw. We have filled our homes with electrical gadgets and appliances which were not even invented when most of our houses were wired for electric lights.

We plug all of these new conveniences into the same trickle of power and naturally £he ve-ltage, or pressure, goes down. The toaster dries out the bread instead of giving it a quick golden brown. The coffee maker slows down. Breakfast is late and we're Itte for work. The problem is so universal that industry leaders are one builders house in 20 is adequately wired for electrical living," says House and Home trade publication of the home building industry.

"In practically every home built before World War wiring is more than inadequate; it's obsolete," says Business Week, explaining the "appliance boom that has led to a crisis." The electrical load in the aver', age home has increased 100 per cent since before the war, ing to the power companies. But wiring has not kept pace. IF YOU DOUBT that all this is taking money out of your pocket, consider these examples compiled br electrical engineers of the National Adequate Wiring Bureau. 1. A toaster plugged into a wir- ing system which has a voltage drop of 10 per cent common in a majority of homes takes 31.5 per cent more time to brown a piece of toast and consumes 28.6 "per cent more current lhan when plugged into an adequately wired circuit.

2. An electric toaster takes 28 -A per cent more to reach its required cooking temperature and wastes 19 per cent of the current. 3. A lamp loses 34 per cent of its brilliance where there is a voltage drop of 10 per cent on your house circuit. WHAT CAN BE DONE about it? H.

H. Watson engineer in the struction materials division of the General Electric sums it up this way: "Existing Inadequately wired homes should be rewired and new homes must be wired to adequate standards if the homemaker and her family are to enjoy the bene- fits of full elctric living." 'I The cost of wiring a house FRIGIDAIRE THRIFTY THIRTY This extra-large oven is an important feature of this new Frigidaire Thrifty 30-inch electric range. The oven has a total capacity of 6,275 cubic inches enough usable space to bake six pies, 10 loaves of bread, and the largest turkey, or an entire oven meal for a big family. The range also is equipped with a new simplified automatic oven clock cooking control. A full-width drawer below the oven provides extra storage space for utensils.

to about as much as i "extra cost: $5." minting a house. And an efficient wiring system lasts a lot longer iian any paint job. Also, it costs ar less to a house properly construction than after a louse is finished. "In Los Angeles," reports House and Home, "most home buyers ind they cannot use an electric tove without first paying $94 for an electric outlet" HOME BUILDERS, the Federal Housing Administration, the Vet- rans Administration and local electrical codes have been blamed for the new houses with old style wiring. In New York's vast Long Island surburban field, where more than 4,000 new homes have been sold.in one week, 60-ampere panel boards have been installed even in fairly large all-electric homes.

No house should have less than a 100-ampere panel board," comments House and Home, adding, "With so many more room coolers, electric blankets and other new appliances, all-circuits (not just kitchen circuits) should be three-wire." AN INTERESTING sidelight on placing blame for overloads on house wiring was provided recently by Business Week. A woman, whose well-equipped home included all of the 56 common appliances, plugged in an electric coffemaker while most of the other gadgets were working, and a fuse blew out. whose fault was that? Should she blame the manufacturer of the cof- femaker, or the power company for inferior electricity? "As -a public relations gesture," said Business Week, "the power company may send a service man around to change the fuse although in most instances it's not the company's responsibility. Last year Consolidated Edison of Showers Require Energy OMAHA It takes four times as much energy to take a shower as a bath says Dr. Howard A.

Rusk chairman of the department of physical medicine and rehabilitation at New York University. That's important to two million Americans crippled by heart disease Dr. Rusk told a University of Nebraska medical college audience. Taking a bath instead of a shower is one way cardiac victims can conserve their overtaxed hearts. Dr.

Rusk also confirmed something many a bed-ridden patients has suspected: It requires twice as much energy to use a bedpan as it does to walk to the bathroom. calls on blown fuses at a cost of about one million Are such expenditures passed on in your power bills? Figure it out. ITS ALL NEW gnd Better Than Ever! FRIGIDAIRE Electric Range with the "WONDER No other Range has it! Here's ONLY oven that bakes as it broils roasts as it bakes in the same oven at the time! It's one big oven becomes 2 separate ovens in a matter seconds. Each has its own heat, temperature control and signal light. AND .1 the "Wonder has new Quick-Clean design.

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