31 Common Household Circuit Wirings You Can Use For Your Home

The circuit wirings in this article show the most common wiring variations for typical electrical devices. Most new wiring you install will match one or more of the wirings shown. Find… Read more

Jun 14, 2016 | Edvard

31 Common Household Circuit Wirings You Can Use For Your Home (2)

1st part | 2nd part | 3rd part The list of the next ten household circuit wirings: Double receptacle circuit with shared neutral wire (receptacles alternate circuits) Double receptacle small-appliance… Read more

Jun 14, 2016 | Edvard

31 Common Household Circuit Wirings You Can Use For Your Home (3)

1st part | 2nd part | 3rd part The list of the last eleven household circuit wirings: Three-way switches & light fixture (fixture at start of cable run) Three-way switches… Read more

Jun 14, 2016 | Edvard

Guidelines To Residential Room Lighting

Architects of development houses usually select the locations for switches, receptacles, and luminaires at a quality and price level determined by the builder. However, purchasers of architect-designed, custom-built homes usually… Read more

Sep 18, 2015 | Edvard

7 key steps in lighting design process

To achieve the best overall outcome in a lighting installation, it is important to avoid the tendency of rushing straight into luminaire selection before determining more broadly what is required… Read more

Aug 03, 2015 | Edvard

7 energy-efficiency improvement opportunities in lighting system

There are a lot of opportunities to optimise lighting system in (almost) any industrial facility. Seven practical energy-efficiency opportunities to reduce energy use cost-effectively are given below: Lighting controls Replace T-12 tubes… Read more

Jul 29, 2015 | Edvard

Let’s develop the simple PLC program for lighting control system

A lighting control system is to be developed. The system will be controlled by four switches, SWITCH1, SWITCH2, SWITCH3, and SWITCH4. These switches will control the lighting in a room… Read more

Jul 06, 2015 | Edvard

8 NEC Basic Feeder Circuit Sizing Requirements

Once the branch circuit loads are calculated, the feeder circuit loads may be calculated by applying demand factors to the branch circuit loads. General Lighting Loads (Article 220.42) Show window… Read more

Dec 17, 2014 | Edvard

An example of calculating the number of indoor lighting fixtures

These are the input data for the following calculation: An office area has length: 20 meter; width: 10 meter; height: 3 meter. The ceiling to desk height is 2 meters…. Read more

Aug 18, 2014 | jiguparmar

Visual Tasks of Typical Living Room Lighting

Most living rooms require flexible lighting design solutions because they serve a broad variety of changing functions. The lighting in a typical living room should comfortably serve small group conversation,… Read more

Apr 17, 2013 | Edvard

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