Basic Home Electrical Wiring
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Summary: This Basic Home Electrical Wiring DVD is a great way to understand household wiring which includes a wide variety of home electrical topics. |
The Basics of Household Wiring DVD
"If you're looking for a good reference to help you understand basic home electrical wiring, I personally recommend 'The Basics
of Household Wiring' DVD" - Dave Rongey - Ask-The-Electrician
NEW!
Updated
Now Includes 30 Additional Minutes of Instruction!
Professionally produced this excellent tutorial is designed to help you
clearly understand electricity in your home. Demonstrations of how to
safely perform simple electrical projects.
Topics covered in this comprehensive
DVD include:
The Basics of Electricity
- Safety
- Electrical code
- Permits and insurance compliance
- Wire colors and their meaning
- How electricity is distributed in your home
- Understanding the purpose and function of service panels
- The importance of grounding
- The definition of amps volts and watts
- Understanding circuitry in your home
Safety & Testing
- Safe practices for working around electricity in your home
- Proper testing of currents using voltage meters
Household Wiring
- The different types and sizes of wire
- Wire colors and their meaning
- All about cabling
- Wire gauge and how to interpret wire size
- Understanding amperage and how to select the appropriate
wire size based on amps
- The causes of short circuits
- Circuit breakers - how they operate, their role and function
- What to do when a breaker trips and how to reset a breaker
- How to calculate the safe capacity for a circuit breaker
- How to avoid overloading a circuit in your home
- Understanding receptacles
- How to properly replace an outlet
- Understanding the role of a Ground Fault Circuit Interrupter
(GFCI) and how they operate
- The basics of a two-way or single pole switch
- Safely replacing a switch
- How to safely install a light fixture in your home
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