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Electrical Wiring FAQ (Part 1 of 2)
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	http://homewiring.tripod.com is a truly excellent site.
	It contains a fairly wide range of very detailed information.
	If you need pictures on how to do common things (like 3 or 4
	way switches, ceiling fan installation etc), this is a great
	place to go.  It doesn't cover as broad variety of things
	as this FAQ, but it's much more detailed, and more up to date
	in some areas.

	It's particularly good for figuring out the wiring of complicated
	switch arrangements.

	Note that this site is 1999 NEC specific.  Which means that
	if you're not in the USA, you will have to be very careful about
	taking the rules as gospel.  For example, the section on kitchens
	is entirely wrong for Canada.

User Contributions:

1
Dev
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In a fire protection circuit, circuts are shown witha no example 6,8,4etc. what it mean?these circuits are connected between smode detector,junction box etc
2
kevin
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My daughter dropped a small necklace behind her dresser. The necklace crossed a plug terminal and shorted the receptacle.
I bought a new receptacle and installed the same. I still have no power I suspect there could be a bigger problem,this is aluminum wiring.
I've killed the breaker and call an electrician but am curious as to what happened.P.s. there is a dimmer switch on the same circuit.
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dennis
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Regarding new construction wiring and running 12/2 and 14/3 wire in the same box.

I have multiple switches to lights. Ran 12/2 and 14/3 into switch box and inspector wrote correction needed.

What should I have done instead?

thank you
dennis
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Robert
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Does a grounding electrode facilitate the operation of a OCPD, to clear a ground fault ?
5
@dennis
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Assuming you are installing two switches in a two switch box, you probably should have used 14/2 and 14/3 instead of replacing 14/2 with 12/2. If you are only installing one switch in a one switch box, you should only have one cable in the box.
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P k
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I prefer to use nothing smaller than12 awg /the smallest sized wire on a circuit determines the allowable ampacity
Ex: 15 amp-14awg. 12awg-20amp only rule for thumb other factors such as continuous load,heating and others if you do not know the safe NEC rules then please call a qualified journeyman Electrician better be safe

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