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

E MailInfo Request.............About Earthcom

.........Residential Building Trades.....TheFifty-Minute House

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