Electrical Wiring Terms Review Questions with Complete Solutions Latest Update
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Electrical Wiring Terms Review Questions with Complete Solutions Latest Update
Ampacity - Answers The current-carrying capacity of conductors or equipment, expressed in amperes.
Amperage - Answers Unit of measure denoting how much current a conductor is carrying. Represented by the letter "I" fo...
Ampacity - Answers The current-carrying capacity of conductors or equipment, expressed in amperes.
Amperage - Answers Unit of measure denoting how much current a conductor is carrying. Represented
by the letter "I" for intensity of current flow.
Appliances - Answers Any equipment made for a specific purpose that uses electricity to create light,
heat, mechanical motion, etc.
Cable - Answers An insulated electrical conductor, often in strands, or a combination of electrical
conductors insulated from one another.
Circuit - Answers The complete path of an electric current including the generating apparatus,
intervening resistors, capacitors, etc. any well-definied segment of a complete circuit.
Commercial - Answers Of or pertaining to a building having to do with commerce.
Conductor - Answers Anything that passes electricity from one point the another. Electrical wires and
power lines are conductors.
Conduit - Answers A tube or trough for electric wires or cables.
Continuity - Answers Formed by a complete circuit of properly connected grounding conductors.
Cord - Answers A small, flexible, insulated cable.
Current - Answers The movement or flow of electricity; the speed at which such flow moves. Measured
in Amperes (Amps)
Fixed Appliance - Answers An appliance such as a dishwasher that's fastened at a specific location.
Grounded - Answers Connected to the earth, or to something like a water pipe that conducts electricity
to the earth.
Ground-fault - Answers When something or someone provides an unintentional path between a source
of electrical current and the ground. This can happen if you touch a faulty electrical appliance, and it can
cause electrocution. Ground-faults can also cause fires.
Insulation - Answers The act of separating a conductor of electricity, heat or sound from other
conducting bodies by means of something that will not conduct electricity, heat or sound.
Kilowatt - Answers One thousand Watts
Residential - Answers Or of pertaining to a building used as a home.
Standard - Answers Specific requirements as established by an authority, law, rule, custom, etc.;
something set up as a rule for measuring or as a model to be followed.
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