New Electrical Work

The main breaker kicks off in your electrical box because you are using more electricity than it can handle. If it is set for 100 watts and you are trying to use 125 watts, it will kick off. You can call your electrical company and ask for an electrical audit. There might be things you can do such as not run the washing machine, the dryer, the dishwasher, the stove, the vacuum cleaner, and every other appliance in the house all at once.

We were recently told my son's 98 Avalon has a 30w amp feeding the subwoofer.

Your house runs nowhere near 200 amps, so you need to make a list of appliances and fixtures that you use, or that you will need while the generator is running, and add their power consumption together. Add some extra capacity for growth and so the generator is not always at full power. Then talk to dealers about generators with the amount of power you need.

To run the house on a generator with the same capacity as the service that you have in your house you would need a 50 Kilowatt generator.

To join sealtite and PVC conduit, you can use a threaded adapter to connect the two types of conduit. Make sure to use the appropriate size adapters and follow the manufacturer's instructions for a secure and watertight connection. It's important to ensure that the joined conduit maintains the integrity of the overall electrical system.

Yes, keeping a live wire open can potentially trip a circuit breaker if the neutral and ground are connected. This can create a potential difference between neutral and ground, leading to a fault current that may trip the breaker. It is unsafe to have a live wire left open and in contact with other conductors.

Shut the power off to the recepticle. Then take apart the old outlet. Wire up the new outlet. The only difference between the old and the new will be the grounding. If BX armour cable is used, then you will need to take a jumper wire from the grounding nut on the outlet and connect it to the box with a grounding screw. This wire must be green. If romex has been used, then there is a gounding wire that is in the bundle of the wires coming into the box. If it a metal box, then you must use a grounding screw and ground that wire to the boc and then connect that same wire to the outlet. If its a plastic box, then just wire the ground to the outlet. I also like to wrap the outlet in electrical tape, just incase the the wires were to come loose, they would note hit against the box shorting out. Finally, put the pieces back together. And your DONE!

The best advice I can give you is to reference the wiring diagram that came with the flood light fixture. There's no sure way for me to know what the wires are, so if I gave you an answer, it may or may not be correct. Typically, though, the wires are as follows: Green or bare - ground White - neutral Black - hot Red - switched hot The 'fiber' coated wires are probably high-temperature fixture wires. These go to the actual lamp. The others operate the motion sensor. You'd have to connect your bare to the other ground wire(s) in the junction box, or the box itself if it is metal and there are no ground wires. Connect both your white wires (normal and fiber coated) to the white wire in the junction box with a wire nut. Next, connect the red motion sensor wire to the black fiber coated wire with a wire nut. Last, connect the black motion sensor (non-fiber) wire to the black (guessing?) wire in your junction box. Remember that you must leave the switch controlling the light in the 'on' position to allow the motion sensor to operate properly.

any air canditioner can break from receiving a power surge, usually what a power surge will do is blow the run capacitor...Lightning storms cause this problem a lot...thats why i tell all my customers to turn their ac off when a bad thunderstorm is passing through their area...it is possible also for the compressor or fan motor to be seriously damaged if there is a power surge

What you are asking is kinda like asking how many oranges in an apple

Voltage is the measure of electrical potential

Amps is the measure of electrical quantity

a good illustration is a water pipe, you can have high pressure (volts) but unless the water is allowed to flow the quantity of water is zero. (amps)

You can only reduce amperage in a circut by reducing the number or size of devices plugged in to it. To make it easy, imagine you have a 120watt light bulb. Given your household voltage is normally 120v this would draw 1 amp, (volts X watts = amps). fifteen of these bulbs would draw 15 amps, the size of a commonly used circut breaker. The sixteenth light bulb added to the circut should trip the circut breaker or fuse to protect the wiring from overheating. If you chose to use 60watt bulbs instead you should be able to burn 30 of them before th breaker trips. Likewise if you needed 240watt bulbs, that same circut could only carry 7 of them.

When breakers are in the off position all you have to do is just click over once. If the two wires touch therefore, allowing the breaker to go off then, you would click the breaker to the off position and then click it back to the on poition. if the breaker cuts back off again please it is very important that you call an electitrian.

Almost all ceiling fans have 4 wires and one is the ground wire. The wires have a different colours: green, white, black and last being one of three colours (white/black striped, red or blue). The green wire serves as the ground for the whole system. The other wires are the lead wires for different areas such as: The light kit and ceiling fan motor use the white wire as the neutral lead, the fan motor uses the black wire for the hot lead; the light kits use the white/black or red/blue striped wire for the hot lead. If you need more info go to: http://www.ceiling-fan-wizard.com/ceiling-fan-wiring.html

430 watt bulbs are made to juice a little more light from a standard 400 watt ballast. you get about 3-5000 more lumens. A typical 400 watt HPS produces about 50-55,000 lumens. The 430 will put out about 58,000. Not a lot, but a little extra without any increase in power usage.

No its not, its very stiff, poly urathane is more flexable and a hell of a lot more durable. Thin thin layers of fiber glass, like 1 or 2 sheets is flexible and not durable, breaks very easily. But reinforced plastic fiberglass, flexible, no its not, very very stiff.

The wiring is the same. White with white and black of house wiring to black or to both the black and blue of the ceiling fan. The problem is you need the ceiling fan bracket to be very secure to the ceiling. Usually you would screw right into the joist. Be careful with the pipe. If it is not capped it's probably just a fixture nipple. If it is capped it could be an old gas line that was used for a gas light.

In many fields companies are bought and sold on a regular basis. So it is with many circuit breaker companies Siemens is the current name; previously it was ITE-GOULD; previous to that it was just ITE Some breaker models will carry through and be of the same design and fit no matter which brand label is on it. In most of those cases the model # does not change. Some breaker get obsoleted after the mergers. Sometimes new models are added.

You would wire the switch to the first light. Code says to break the black or power side of the circuit. Connect the white to the light. Take the black down to the switch on the black wire and back to the light on the white. This is a line of wire from the light to the switch. From the first light, take the white and the return white from the switch to the second with another run of wire. This will be regular black white with ground. White to white and at the first light the return line from the switch is white but hook to the black to the second light. Second light to third just continues the two wires. Black to black, white to white. I think this is clear enough to follow. If not, ask again.

The ground wire on a 1994 Buick LeSabre is typically located near the battery or on the engine block. It is a thick black wire that connects to the car's chassis to provide a path for electrical currents to return to the battery. You may need to consult the vehicle's wiring diagram or service manual for specific locations.

You cannot plug a 240V appliance directly into a standard 120V outlet as it can cause damage or be a safety hazard. You would need a dedicated 240V outlet and possibly a step-down transformer to safely use the appliance. It's recommended to consult an electrician for proper installation.

A 60A breaker will protect a very large conductor indeed, much larger than an ordinary household water heater would need. Many houses only have a single 60A main fuse!

It would be pointless and dangerous to use a 60A breaker to protect an electrical cable (and appliance) rated for, say, 30 amps. So, you will need to find out the name-plate rating on the water heater before you burn something down.

The installation is similar to that of a 120V outlet. The part you have to be careful with is getting the correct size wire and breaker.

240V is installed using 3 conductor wire (Black, Red, White). The Black and Red hooks to a double-pole circuit breaker. The white and grounding the same as a 120V system.

You actually don't need a 3 wire cable for a 240 volt outlet. The neutral more than likely will not be used and a three wire cable over a two wire cable adds extra costs to the overall job total. If you can afford it however, it is a good idea as then the outlet can be used as a split voltage outlet, and the wiring is pre installed.

There will be 2 wires for installing a 240 VAC outlet. One red and one black.

The white wire should typically connect to L1 on a Dayton 5k534 electric motor. However, to be certain, it's always best to consult the motor's wiring diagram or instructions provided by the manufacturer.