Around 1990, Chattanoogan Sam Hall and his wife bought a mechanical white-noise generator to help them sleep after a neighbor's dog began yapping incessantly at night. Mark Kennedy is a veteran ...

Residential standby generators are indispensable and potentially life saving, especially in storm-prone regions of Texas and Florida. But they are ridiculously loud. Under full load, whole-house ...

Question: Our HOA declaration contains a nuisance clause. Our neighbors installed a whole-house power generator within 8 feet of our fence and 18 feet from our master bedroom window. We were not aware ...

The behavior of analog circuits can often be characterized by sweeping their inputs with a signal going across a range of frequencies and then observing the output. These sweeps can be composed of ...

Fairfax officials are considering new regulations for backup power generators after a handful of residents complained that their neighborhoods were humming with noise from the devices during the ...

The San Rafael City Council has approved an ordinance allowing residents and businesses to turn on backup power generators during blackouts, even when running the devices exceeds city noise limits.