Eric,
When I put my addition on a couple of years ago, I did all the
electrical with the exception of moving the power drop from the
old part of the house to the new. I found a couple of books at
Borders or Barnes & Nobles that were pretty complete when it
came to helping me out. I don't remember them off-hand, but if
you go to either one and look through the selection, you should
be able to find books to help.
The biggest proble I had was trying to wire 3 light fixtures in
the middle of two 3-way switches. I sketched them it out several
times and couldn't figure out a way to do it safely. I then asked
one of our electricians here at work and they told me that the
best way was to have switch - switch - lights, rather thatn the
way I wanted to do it. Cost more wire, but it was done.
Inspector came around, and passed rough and final on first pass.
More that the pros could claim, they had to make some changes
due to too tight a loop on some of the wiring they did.
Regards,
Doug
-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Murray [mailto:ericm@lne.com]
Sent: Friday, November 02, 2001 1:26 PM
To: Chris Kantarjiev
Cc: shop-talk@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Can there be too many outlets? (was: Re: Another electrical
question)
On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 10:04:51AM -0800, Chris Kantarjiev wrote:
>
> Your mistake was letting the electrician do it :-)
Yea, but for people like me, electric wiring is voodoo
and the code is also voodoo.
I know there are books that explain wiring so that I could
understand it, but are there books that'll explain how
to "do it to code"? I haven't seen any. I don;'t even
know where to get "the code".
It seems like unless you're apprenticed to an electrician
for a while there is no way to learn this stuff.
Pointers to info appreciated....
I have done some small wiring jobs and not had anything burn or explode,
but I would not want to wire an entire shop that'll 1) have big electrical
loads and 2) get inspected unless I was really sure I knew what I was doing.
Eric
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