Imagine you are sitting snug in your house on a stormy evening when, all of a sudden, the lights start flickering, and there's a low buzzing noise. You brush it off, but without your knowledge, an ...

If your home was built before the 1960s, you might still have some old two-prong ungrounded outlets. The correct name for an ungrounded outlet is a non-grounding-type receptacle. So here, we'll use ...

Use the same techniques to terminate wires to receptacles as you did for switches: Strip off the insulation, make a hook or slide into a clamp, and tighten. The terminations will be different, though.

What is ground-fault protection? The answer depends on whether you are talking about ground-fault protection of equipment or ground-fault protection of people. Just because ground-fault protection is ...

Q. What Code rule requires the connection of a receptacle grounding terminal to an equipment grounding conductor? A. An equipment bonding jumper sized in accordance with Table 250.122 is required to ...

Thanks to all arsians who've helped me decide on an UPS. <P>There is an indicator labeled: "Buidling Wiring Fault". When the UPS unit is plugged in, this light is lit. The manual saids, "when the ...