Electrical wiring and symbols
Electrical symbols are used on home electrical wiring plans in order to show the location, control point(s), and type of electrical devices required at those locations. These symbols, which are drawn on top of the floor plan, show lighting outlets, receptacle outlets, special purpose outlets, fan outlets and switches.
Dashed lines are drawn between the symbols to denote which switches control specific lights or receptacles.
There are quite a few symbols used to represent the devices used in home electrical wiring but some of them are very similar, so care should be used when working with them!
An “outlet” is any point in an electrical system where current is taken out of the system in order to supply power to the attached electrical equipment. An outlet can be one of two basic types: A “Receptacle” outlet or a “Lighting” outlet.
A receptacle outlet is one in which one or more receptacles are installed for the purpose of attaching “plug and cord-connected” type devices, and a lighting outlet is one intended for a direct-wired connection to a lamp holder, luminaire (lighting fixture) or ceiling fan.
How electricity travels throughout the home?
Electricity is supplied to your home through your electric utility’s overhead or buried power lines. Before entering your home, electricity passes through a watt-hour meter which measures the amount of electricity used.
It then continues into your house through the Service Entrance Panel (also called a “load center”), where circuit protection devices such as circuit-breakers or fuses are located.
Electricity is then distributed throughout your home using branch circuits to provide power to appliances and lights through receptacles, switches, and fixtures.
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NO links between light fitting and switches, just a connection to show “groups”
All “light Switches” linked on the same data bus cable (no rules as to where or how they connect.
This all means that the “control point” for each light can be changed at will, as the building use evolves.
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