Category: Electrical & Lighting
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How To – Running Wire for Electrical and other Services
There are many times when you will need to add or upgrade electrical, cable tv, telephone or other services in your home. To do so you need to understand both how circuits are designed and how your home is constructed to fish the wire through walls and make proper connections. In other HowTos we will cover wall construction…
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How To – Making Cable Tv Cables
Whether you are wiring your whole home or just making a custom cable that runs from your wall outlet to your television the steps and tools you need are the same. In this HowTo you will learn how to strip cable ends and use crimp connectors. Tools you will need RG-6 Crimping tool Utility knife or…
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Active Solar Heating
Active Solar depends on movement from a collector to the area that the heat will be used. Sometimes the heat is used for water heating and other times it is used for space heating. There are two basic types of active heat collection: Air and Liquid. Hot water heating is a good example of an…
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Installing Your Homes Electric Service
Installing your Electric Service is not the most complex part of building a home or even wiring your homes electrical circuits but it must be done with extreme care because the risk for electrocution is pretty good. I say this because unlike the wiring inside your home there is no circuit breaker to limit the amount…
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Book – Black & Decker Complete Guide to Home Wiring
At first glance this is a really great book for your coffee table or as an introduction to electrical services. With over 300 pages Black & Decker tries to cover most areas in the home that a do-it-yourself or just someone that might want to educate themselves in the basics of wiring. The images and…