Black & Decker The Complete Guide to Wiring, 5th Edition: Current with 2011-2013 Electrical Codes Author: Editors of CPi | Language: English | ISBN:
B0052XSEDK | Format: EPUB
Black & Decker The Complete Guide to Wiring, 5th Edition: Current with 2011-2013 Electrical Codes Description
The Complete Guide to Wiring has been America's very best-selling consumer wiring book for more than a decade, with previous editions selling more than 1 million copies. This fifth edition has been updated to comply with 2011-2013 Electrical Codes. It also includes an all new Home Automation chapter, as well as major revisions to lighting and ventilation equipment hookups and new material on working with conduit and raceways.
- File Size: 44632 KB
- Print Length: 352 pages
- Publisher: Creative Publishing international; 5 edition (May 1, 2011)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B0052XSEDK
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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I read every word of this book up until the case studies where I kind of picked and chose what interested me. It does a great job of explaining the basics of wiring and the different types of equipment and hardware, and has a fair amount of real world examples that are pretty easy to understand.
A few things bothered me though, and are all in somewhat of a way related to home automation.
In the section on different types of switches they mention a few types including dimmers and some automation switches that will not work with 2 conductor wire because they require a neutral, and simply state that it can not be done. It can be done if 3 conductor wire is ran from the device to the switch in order to keep the neutral, but they don't mention that or show how to do it, which would be nice.
On the same note, about half of the wiring examples they had for wiring switches are examples that as far as I know, are no longer valid per the 2011 NEC. The NEC now states that switch boxes must contain a neutral wire even if it isn't used (just cap it off in that case.) The book still has several examples of the outdated practice of just running a switch loop with 2 conductor wire. Unless I'm misunderstanding what the book is saying, I'm really not sure how that got overlooked, especially since it is one of only a few changes in the code. That is the point of releasing a new edition of the book, right?
In the home automation section, most of the examples of "automation" that they show are nothing more than decades old remote controllers. There is nothing on actual automation packages which are what consumers are looking for today. If someone wants to know how to install a remote device on their fan they can read the 2 page instruction booklet that comes with it.
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