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The Complete Home Electrical Bible: [7 in 1] The Ultimate Beginner's Guide to Understanding Your Home's Wiring - Read the Panel, Map Every Circuit, ... Jobs Need a Licensed Elect (Toolbox Bibles) - Softcover

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Mehta, Manan

 
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Synopsis

You are responsible for a system you have never been taught to read.

Home wiring books come in two useless kinds: code manuals written for inspectors, and cheerful DIY guides that walk you through work most homeowners should not do. This is deliberately the third thing.

Seven self-contained books in one volume: 174 pages, 8.5 x 11 inches, 70 chapters. You end with a written survey of your own house that makes every future electrician's visit shorter. It teaches understanding, surveying and testing - and says plainly where the professional line sits.

What's inside

  • Book 1 - Safety and where the line is — the findings that mean stop rather than investigate
  • Book 2 - How a home circuit works — four ideas that explain every fault in the volume
  • Book 3 - Reading your panel — a circuit survey that is actually correct, in one afternoon
  • Book 4 - Breakers and trips — overload, short circuit and ground fault are three different messages
  • Book 5 - Outlets, switches and fixtures — open grounds and reversed polarity are invisible and common
  • Book 6 - GFCI, AFCI and grounding — test the devices that almost nobody ever tests
  • Book 7 - Describing faults and hiring well — turn a diagnostic visit into a repair visit

This volume will not teach you to alter circuits, and says so on page one. It will teach you to understand the system you own and buy work well.

Not a substitute for a licensed electrician. Check your own jurisdiction's rules before any work.

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