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  • Careful with your washing

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    You can save around £28 (£15 in NI) a year from your energy bill just by using your washing machine more carefully: Use your washing machine on a 30-degree cycle instead of higher temperatures. Reduce your washing machine use by one run per week for a year.

  • Turn off lights

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    Turn your lights off when you’re not using them or when you leave a room. This will save you around £20 (£19 in NI) a year on your annual energy bills. Replacing all the lights in your home with LED bulbs could help you save even more.

  • Draught-proof windows and doors

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    Unless your home is very new, you will lose some heat through draughts around doors and windows, gaps around the floor, or through the chimney. Professional draught-proofing of windows, doors and blocking cracks in floors and skirting boards can cost around £225, but can save around £45 (£55 in NI) a year on energy bills. DIY draught…

  • Switch off standby

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    You can save around £55 (£45 in NI) a year just by remembering to turn your appliances off standby mode. Almost all electrical appliances can be turned off at the plug without upsetting their programming. You may want to think about getting a standby saver or smart plug which allows you to turn all your appliances off…

  • Binary to Decimal and Decimal to Binary Conversion

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    The number system that we are mostly familiar with is a decimal number system. The decimal number system has a base of ten which implies that there are ten numbers by the help of which we can represent any number of the decimal family. The numbers are from 0 to 9. Representation is such as…

  • Binary Number System

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    What is the Binary Number System? In digital electronics Binary numbers are the most important tool for giving digital inputs. Now before understanding binary number system, we have to understand decimal number system, which we use in our daily life. The number system first introduced in human history for counting purpose. Different numbers for counting…

  • Binary to Octal and Octal Binary Conversion

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    We know that binary and octal are two different kinds of number systems whose bases are 2 and 8 respectively, i.e. they use 2 and 8 digits respectively to represent their numbers and these numbers are 0, 1 (for binary) and 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 (for octal). Now we can transform…

  • Octal Number System

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    In early days octal number system was mostly used in minicomputers. The word “OCT” means eight. The octal number system says that it is a number system of base 8 which means that we require 8 different symbols in order to represent any number in octal system. The symbols are 0, 1, 2, 3, 4,…

  • Digital Electronics: Basics and Definition

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    What is Digital Electronics? We know there are two types of signals, one is analog or continuous signal and the second one is Digital or discrete signal. So the science or field of research in the area of engineering is termed as Analog and Digital Electronics respectively. Now coming to the area of Digital Electronics,…

  • Arduino vs Raspberry Pi 

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    What is an Arduino? Arduino is an open-source hardware development board. It has a programmable circuit board and a software (IDE- Integrated Development Environment) that runs on Mac, Windows, and Linux. Arduino was developed at the Ivrea Interaction Design Institute by Massimo Benzi in Italy. It was developed for fast prototyping, and aimed at people…