Nov 042012
 

Electrical Wiring Residential

Electrical Wiring Residential

  • Contains new, updated photographs, diagrams, and illustrations that add clarity to explanations of critical concepts.
  • Includes expanded coverage on safety in the workplace from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) that encourages your students to consider safety on an ongoing basis.
  • Uses real-world examples throughout to reinforce key calculations and concepts.
  • Uses both metric and English measurements to appeal to students of all learning backgrounds.
  • Includes a Code Cross-Index that allows your students to easily reference specific content and Code requirements.

ELECTRICAL WIRING RESIDENTIAL, 17E, updated to comply with the 2011 National Electrical Code, is a bestselling book that will help you learn the basics of residential wiring in both new and existing homes. This book uses a practical approach and comprehensive coverage to guide you step-by-step through the critical tasks and responsibilities that face today’s professional residential electricians. With coverage of energy conservation laws like Title 24, as well as today’s important concepts such

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Practical Electrical Wiring: Residential, Farm, Commercial & Industrial: Based on the 2011 National Electrical Code

Practical Electrical Wiring: Residential, Farm, Commercial & Industrial: Based on the 2011 National Electrical Code

This reference presents a comprehensive and detailed look at the critical revisions in technical topics driven by emerging technology and building-code changes comprise. Starting with a basic overview of the National Electrical Code and its enforcement, this handbook reviews the theory and practice of installing electrical wiring. The guidelines provide an essential context for understanding the major industry segments—residential, farm, commercial, and industrial—and the techniques help to

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  1. 22 of 22 people found the following review helpful
    5.0 out of 5 stars
    Comprehensive manual for aspiring pros and sophisticated amateurs, April 8, 2011
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    Gary Coffrin (San Jose, California, USA) –

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    This comprehensive guide is designed to teach aspiring professionals the design concepts and electrical code for issues facing residential electricians. Its content is also helpful to serious amateurs (not beginners) wanting to gain a more thorough knowledge of wiring than can be learned from the pictorial DIY guides. This book emphasizes the National Electric Code (NEC) for each topic and is updated every three years to include the changes made to the NEC. The code’s phrasing is not always intuitive, and much of the text explains NEC requirements.

    Although the volume is sold primarily to students taking technical courses and those studying for the residential electrician license exam, it can be useful to serious do-it-yourselfers. If you are building a house or adding on, you will find topics regarding new construction that simply aren’t covered in DIY pictorial guides. This 800 page book presents the “complete picture” and code for subjects including service entrances, voltage drop calculations, conductor sizing, sub-panels, branch circuit design, central heating systems, spas, standby electrical systems, interconnected smoke detectors, etc.

    If you have some expertise and want to wire your new home so that it will pass inspection, this book tells you what you need to know. The book can help the sophisticated amateur get it right. That said, my advice is to hire a licensed journeyman electrician to guide and review your major projects. Safety is critical, and your local home inspector may not be thorough enough to catch things that could lead to fire or malfunction.

    “Electrical Wiring Residential” has almost no content on repairs or upgrades to existing wiring. The focus is new construction. Most professionals will admit to carrying in their truck a heavily illustrated DIY guide like Black & Decker’s “The Complete Guide to Wiring” or Home Depot’s “Wiring 1-2-3.” And, persons tackling small repair or upgrade projects would be better served by an illustrated DIY guide. These DIY books are more beginner friendly.

    If you need a text covering mostly new construction with a strong focus on NEC requirements, this book is thorough (and more than occasionally redundant). As an aside, there are a surprising number of grammatical errors (usually subject/verb disagreement). Moreover, there are passages where new text was careless integrated with prior content. Some sections have contradictory passages with content pertaining to prior code in the same paragraph with text based on new code. That said, a careful reading will correctly decipher the meaning. Those wanting a less academic approach to the subject should check out the latest edition of Rex Cauldwell’s “Wiring a House.”

    Note: Always search for books consistent with the latest NEC. You want books with current content so that your work will pass inspection. Moreover, the code updates include sensible improvements of modest cost that can prevent damage and save lives.

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  2. 1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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    Best Book to Learn Residental Wiring, July 13, 2012
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    Roger

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    This is the book that is used at the votech in the area where I live. I have read numerous books on residential wiring. This is the best one. It explains the concepts of electricity and provides easy to understand diagrams. It is also an excellent reference book

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  3. 1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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    Want to learn how to run wire? Get this book., January 16, 2012
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    I got this book because it is the text book that I needed for my electrical class at school. It was exactly what I needed for the class and was way cheaper than the school bookstore. This book will teach you how to wire your own house. It will go into detail to teach you how the electrician would do it. Good detail and instruction.

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  4. 79 of 79 people found the following review helpful
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    The only book you need to wire your house, December 4, 1998
    By A Customer

    We bought this hoping to get ideas for wiring our new house. With only this book we were able to wire our entire new house – from setting the power at the street – to wiring our well . Not only were we able to wire our entire house – it passed inspection on the first try with no corrections . A very valuable book for home owners and builders.

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  5. 112 of 115 people found the following review helpful
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    PRACTICAL ELECTRICAL WIRING – 18th Ed., February 27, 2002
    By A Customer

    This new (18th) edition of Practical Electrical Wiring is an excellent guide to basic (and also not-so-basic)residential, farm and commercial electrical wiring. It has been completely updated from the 17th edition, and reflects the latest changes in the 2002 National Electrical Code.

    The text covers an astonishing range of subjects, from the basics of volts and amperes to some very solid material on grounding, wiring methods, residential service, and conductor sizing.

    This book is quite different from the typical Sunset do-it-yourself guides that one picks up at Home Depot. It will not tell you how to rewire Aunt Sophie’s favorite lamp. It will tell you about residential branch circuits, overcurrent devices (fuses and circuit breakers), outlet and switch boxes, residential and nonresidential lighting, special appliance circuits, safety, wiring methods, electric motors, and a great deal more.

    It has an excellent section on how to modernize old work, including how to run wiring through ceilings, walls, and from floor-to-floor. And in case you’ve forgotten how, it also has a clear illustration of how to tie an Underwriter’s Knot (see page 355)!

    This really is an excellent book, obviously written by a person who has many years of practical experience and knows what he is talking about. It would serve well as a vocational school text and as a fine general reference book for the homeowner and for journeyman electrician.

    To round it out, it is well illustrated, has useful NEC ampacity and load tables in the appendices, and has a very comprehensive index.

    Recommended.

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  6. 22 of 22 people found the following review helpful
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    Codes in plain English, October 17, 2005
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    L. Havrylik (Seekonk, MA) –
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    Frederic Hartwell gets my highest praise for taking a complex subject and presenting it in an orderly and understandable manner. From home wiring to industrial 3 phase circuits Mr. Hartwell provides sound information without sacrificing readablity. I have supervised an instrument and electrical department for a public utility for 18 years and found that the material presented in this book filled in a lot of the holes in my own knowledge. I think you would be hard pressed to find a better or more readable text on practical electrical circuits, devices and wiring techniques.

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