The ElectricVideo
VHS 25 min
DVD: The Electric Video
DVD: The Electric Video,The Wiring Game, Motor Controls
Audiences ranging frommiddle school to adult are entertained
and enlightened as they discover the fundamentals in man's
adventures with electricity. This colorful animation makes it easy
to understand basic atomic structure, electron flow, circuits and
generators, volts, amps and resistance, electro- magnetism, lights
and motors, measuring and transformers, household services, steam
and nuclear power generating.
"Splendid": Lars Thelestam for Sandell Group, Sweden.
"Excellent...Two thumbs up": Dana Perkins for the American
Association of InstructionalVoctional Media
by the 2008 Code
Part One: POWER PLANT
TO PANEL
VHS 35 min
DVD: Power Plant to Paneland Rough-in
The Power plant: ...Coal to steam to turbineto generator to
armature: three-phase at sixty cycles ...Synchronization and Station
transformers ...Long Line transmission ...Substation to Distribution
Lines ...Distribution to household ...Underground Service
Transformer ...240/120/G Meter Box ...Service Panel ... Service
& Equipment Revisions...Line & circuit fuses ...Breakers ...Panel
Ground Bus ...Ground Rod ... How Electrical Shock can happen
...WhyGrounds are a Safety Measure ... GFCI replacement
receptacles ...How electricity moves--computer animation brings to
life the most common household circuits
Code-wide changes, 05 retainedand new for 08
Residential Wiring by the 2008 Code
Part Two: ROUGH-IN
VHS 40 min
DVD: Power Plant to Paneland Rough-in
Drilling in Framing ...Running AWG 14-2 NM ...Nail Plates
Cable support ...Staples.....RoutingNM Cable .....Boxes..--..for
receptacles: ...Spacing, height, setback, knockouts ...Conductors in
box, making up grounds ...Metal boxes: grounds, greenies, GFCI
rough-in .....Receptacle locations .....Boxes for switches, locations
08: ARC-FAULT PROTECTIONREQUIRED ALL DWELLING UNITS
Three-way Switches &14-3g NM rough-in ... Boxes for overhead
fixtures, Ceiling Fansand Smoke Alarms .....Appliances:
wire size, boxes .....Service Panel .....Services and feeders: work
spaces ...Panel ground ...Telephone and communications cable ...
Symbols and what they represent ... Many 2005& 2008 changes
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