LED Lighting – How to Choose and Buy LED Strip Lights

First of all, you must consider what purpose your LED strip lights are going to serve. Are you looking for high luminosity working lights to your shed or workstation? Or are you looking for decorative lighting behind your bathroom mirror? LED strip lights as working light require a cold and bright light, meaning that the colour temperature should be around or above 7000 Kelvin. Cold and bright lights above 7000 Kelvin will effectively illuminate the desired area and the objects within, increasing your ability to see specific details of the objects, which is why it is preferred as working light. Decorative lighting is the exact opposite. Serving a purpose of making areas and objects appear more visible, while creating a sleek ‘designer’s look’ wherever it is installed. If your LED strip lights should serve a decorative purpose, make sure to keep the colour temperature under 5000 Kelvin. With some LED strip lights, you will have the possibility of dimming the brightness – with these, you should be aware of the maximum voltage load, as these vary from product to product.

How long or wide is the area you wish to illuminate? Get some measuring tape and find out to begin with. When purchasing your LED strip lights, be aware that it might not be possible to have your specific length delivered – you may have to round down. Every LED strip light has cutting points, where you can cut and adjust the length. The most common intervals of these cutting points are 2.5cm, 5cm and 10cm. Some products have cutting points per diode, meaning there is a cutting point after every second, third or fourth diode. If you purchase LED strip lights with cutting point intervals of 5cm, but your kitchen cabinet measures 58cm, you would have to round down to 55cm.

Price and quality goes hand in hand, and when you are buying LED strip lights, the cheapest product will be of the poorest quality on several parameters. High-quality LED strip lights can be up to 20 % more energy efficient than strips of poor quality. High quality strips will also have an up to 25 % longer lifespan than strips of poor quality. This means that spending a more money on LED strip lights of high quality will actually save you money in the long run – both in terms of wattage consumption and lifespan. LED strip lights of poor quality will also be more vulnerable in rough environments, where shocks, dust and moisture can easily ruin the entire strip.

How to Find a Good Home Insurance Broker

However, if you have a complex insurance requirement, such as having expensive furniture, coverage for third parties on your property or even insuring a secondary home or vacation home, the details of your coverage will need expert advice. This is why it’s a good idea to look for a good home insurance agent or broker.

Insurance agents may be ‘captive’ agents implying that they help you with insurance packages from a single Insurance Company. They may also be ‘independent’ agents who, through experience, are able to put together an insurance package from various insurance companies, in order to give you the best suited one.

A broker however will charge a commission and a fee for having provided you with his expertise and for functioning as your middle-man. Let’s look at a few tips on how you can find the best home insurance broker:

• Ask friends and family: By far the best way to narrow down a search for a good insurance agent is by asking friends and family. Your friends and family are the ones closest to you and most likely to give you the best advice on choosing a good agent. They are also likely to give you the heads up on what to look out for and which agents specialize in different insurance covers. Which agent can give you the best advice on reduced rates, which ones can give you the best mix of insurance policies offered by various vendors, etc.

• Check with your state insurance regulator: Every state has an insurance regulator that exists for the benefit of consumers. Check their website for licensing, ratings, consumer complaints etc., of insurance agents in your area. In Canada, the Canadian Council of Insurance Regulators (CCIR), is the authority to contact if you want to know more about agents in your locality.

• Meet with a few potential agents: Since you need to disclose a lot of personal information to an agent, ensure that you know everything you need to, about your agent. Ask about your agent’s history, a few clients who would recommend him, the kind of policies he can provide and also about how he can help when a claim is to be made. If the agent does not seem helpful about providing you with accurate information, best policies for the best rates and other helpful tips, you would probably be better off with another more experienced and obliging agent.

• Find an agent who can provide specialized packages: When you need a policy for a secondary home, or if your home is in a unique situation, its best to have an agent who also specializes in that area.

At the end of the day, having an agent who can provide you with customized advice and an equally customized insurance package is the right one for you.

Trouble in download transactions into QuickBooks 2017

QuickBooks performs it smoother for users to trade with their companies and businesses in a well-planned process, at any time and from anywhere. Users can surely keep a report of some their sales transactions, tax acquisitions, Exchanges, Values, etc.

It encourages users to record their features of projects at a single program. It might appear that while applying QuickBooks, the user may locate it a little complex to work or they can discover few errors which can grow a barrier for them. It has 24×7 working, QuickBooks Support Phone Number for its users to resolve their software issues and queries.

There is a very good feature in QuickBooks of downloading transactions from their financial institution. For downloading transactions, we have to connect our QuickBooks to our bank with one user id and password.

There are two ways to download transactions:-

!) Web connect – In this method, we download our bank information/transactions from bank’s website in QBO format and import it into QuickBooks

2) Direct connect: – In this method, main banks are listed in QuickBooks. User just has to enter his/her bank user id and password to download transactions into QuickBooks by linking their account.

Setup in QuickBooks

Make sure QuickBooks release should be updated, and log in with Admin user id and password.
Check all permission of that user
Check data range of download transactions because some banks provide last 90 days transactions to download.
UAC should be turned on of your system.
Only one QuickBooks data file should be open.
Network connection should be established while connect QuickBooks with your bank, It may be caused by a damaged QuickBooks.
Refresh before troubleshooting:-

Back up your Company file on your external hard drive.
Run Reboot.bat file from program data folder.
Restart your computer and try to connect again.
Note: If nothing works, you can directly call QuickBooks helpline number to fix your software error.

Troubleshooting Steps:-

When you get an error ‘QuickBooks already open’.

Close your QuickBooks all down and open it again

Close QuickBooks completely.
Shutdown all QuickBooks related processes from task manager.
Close QuickBooks from quick startup as well.
Restart your PC and open QuickBooks again, then try to connect with your bank.
Note- For any more problems or unable to get any step please call our technician at QuickBooks Helpline Number to fix.