Learn how to repair a broken electric fence and make the most of LED light bulbs in this savvy, reader-submitted tip. I have two tips I’d like to share with you. First, you can use copper wire to fix ...

1156 incandescent bulbs work just fine, thank you. But for the inveterate farkler, everything and anything can and should be improved, changed or customized. That’s where the 18 LED “Tower” style LED ...

Early adopters of LED lighting will remember 50,000 hour or even 100,000 hour lifetime ratings printed on the box. But during a recent trip to the hardware store the longest advertised lifetime I ...

They’re consistently popular with the readers, which is admittedly part of my (and EDN’s) motivation to continue doing them. But I personally also find them fascinating; inevitably I come across at ...

I’ve also treated the topic of LED illumination more conceptually; take, for example, this piece from more than seven years ago that analyzed LED and CFL light bulbs as potential successors to ...