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Home Electrics, Second Edition provides a do-it-yourself (DIY) guide to residential electric systems. The book is comprised of 15 chapters that cover the different aspects of home electrics. The topics covered in the text include electrical installation, rewiring, power circuits, electrical hardware...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Heinemann Newnes,
1987.
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| Edición: | Second edition. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover; Home Electrics; Copyright Page; Preface; Acknowledgements; Table of Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1. Your electrical installation; Earthing; Earthing to a water pipe; Crossbonding of services; How an ELCB operates; Lig^hting circuits; Power circuits; Circuit cables; Current rating of circuits; Metric and Imperial sizes; Circuit fuses; Types of fuse; Miniature circuit breakers (MCBs); Cable colours; Chapter 2. Rewiring; Which circuits need rewiring?; Inspecting^ an installation for rewiring; Examining wiring and accessories; Inspecting sheathed cable installations.
- Inspection at switch and light positionsReplacing switches; Inspecting wiring to lighting points; Inspection at socketoutlets; Inspecting consumer units; Checking a modernised installation; Checking an old earthing system; Deciding on rewiring; Programme for rewiring; Availability of electricity; Utilising an existing consumer unit; Permission to rewire; Tips on rewiring; Electric bells, buzzers and chimes; Burg^lar alarms; Materials required for rewiring; Chapter 3. The lighting system; Lighting circuits; Maximum lights for a circuit; Number of lighting points and lighting circuits.
- Wiring a lighting circuitThe loop-in system; The joint box system; Combined loop-in and joint box circuits; Looping-in on lighting fittings; Wall light wiring; Fixing joint boxes; Fixing wall lights; Slide-on wall lights; Switchini^ a light from two positions; Two lights switched at one position; Switching a light from three (or more) positions; Chapter 4. Lamps; Comparison of lamp efficiencies; Types of electric light bulb; Coloured bulbs; Candle lamps; Tubular lamps (strip lights); Sealed beam reflector lamps; Long life lamps; The fluorescent tube; How a fluorescent tube works.
- Gtuick start tubesTube life has a shorter life than a switch-start tube; Choosing the correct tube; Colour range of fluorescent tubes; Fluorescent lighting circuits; Switches for fluorescent lighting; Fluorescent tube faults and remedies; Chapter 5. Power circuits; Connections at the consumer unit; Wiring remote socket-outlets; Connecting fixed appliances; Connecting spurs; Fused spurs; Electric clocks; Height of fused connection units; Height of socket-outlets; Bathroom shaver sockets; Garagpe and outdoor socket-outlets; Radial power circuits; The 15 A power plug system.
- The 5 A socket-outletRound-pin plug adaptors; The radial system; Circuits for conversion; Conversion to 13 A socket-outlets; Chapter 6. Circuit for electric cookers; Current ratings of circuits; Cooker control units; Cooker current demand; Circuit cable route; Calculating cooker diversity; Types of control unit; Replacing a socket-outlet with a control unit; Connecting a cooker to the control unit; Split-level cookers; Chapter 7. Electric water heaters; Small storage water heaters; Immersion heaters; Dual immersion heater; Remote control of immersion heater; Two-immersion heater installations.