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  2. Electrical wiring - Wikipedia

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    For instance, instead of 14 AWG (American wire gauge) copper wire, aluminium wiring would need to be 12 AWG on a typical 15 ampere lighting circuit, though local building codes vary. Solid aluminium conductors were originally made in the 1960s from a utility-grade aluminium alloy that had undesirable properties for a building wire, and were ...

  3. Electrical wiring in North America - Wikipedia

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    In both those instances the white wire should be identified as being hot, usually with black tape inside junction boxes. The neutral wire is identified by gray or white insulated wire, perhaps using stripes or markings. With lamp cord wire the ribbed wire is the neutral, and the smooth wire is the hot. NEC 2008 400.22(f) allows surface marking ...

  4. Circuit breaker - Wikipedia

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    Circuit breakers with higher ratings can have adjustable trip settings, allowing fewer standardized products to be used, adjusted to the applicable precise ratings when installed. For example, a circuit breaker with a 400 ampere frame size might have its over-current detection threshold set only 300 amperes where that rating is appropriate.

  5. Split-phase electric power - Wikipedia

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    This three-wire single-phase system is common in North America for residential and light commercial applications. Circuit breaker panels typically have two live (hot) wires, and a neutral, connected at one point to the grounded center tap of a local transformer. Usually, one of the live wires is black and the other one red; the neutral wire is ...

  6. Copper-clad aluminium wire - Wikipedia

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    Easily sold as counterfeit copper wire to unaware clients; Much more prone to mechanical fatigue failure than pure copper wire; Gets much hotter than pure copper in case of severe overcurrent, such as short circuits, although this is not an issue for code-compliant installations with proper fuses or circuit breakers.

  7. Glossary of electrical and electronics engineering - Wikipedia

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    A circuit that switches on and off at a high rate, used either for power conversion or to convert a DC signal to a more easily processed AC signal. circle diagram A representation of the voltage and current characteristics of an electrical machine; the plot traces out a circle or part of a circle.

  8. National Electrical Code - Wikipedia

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    A full-load wire does heat up slightly due to the metallic resistance of the wire, but this wire heating is factored into the cable's temperature rating. (NEC 310.10) [ 12 ] The NEC specifies acceptable numbers of conductors in crowded areas such as inside conduit, referred to as the fill rating .

  9. NEMA size - Wikipedia

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    These sizes are grouped by rated current and power. [1] [2] NEMA size Max. continuous amperes Max. HP at 200 ...

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