Basic Electrical House Wiring PDF Manual
Basic Electrical House Wiring PDF Manual
Basic Electrical House Wiring PDF Manual
House Wiring
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Contents…
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1. Basic symbols of Electricity
Filament bulb
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Tumbler Socket (15 Amp)
P
G/E
Batten Holder
Ceiling Rose
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Indicator Lamp
Tube Light
3.5 cm
3.5 cm
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Cable Joint
20mm
25mm
Fan Regulator
Calling Bell
Push Switch
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Intermediate Switch
Two-way Switch
Ceiling fan
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Main distribution Board
Distribution Board
Sub-Distribution Board
Switch Board
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A distribution board (also known
as panel board or breaker panel) is a
component of an electricity supply
system which divides an electrical
power feed into subsidiary circuits,
while providing a
protective fuse or circuit breaker for
each circuit in a common enclosure.
Normally, a main switch, and in recent
boards, one or more residual-current
devices (RCD) or residual current
breakers with over current
protection (RCBO), are also
incorporated.
breaker panel
circuit breaker panel
consumer unit, or CU
electrical panel
fuse board
electric board
Fuse box.
breaker box
load centre/center
panel board
power breaker
service panel
DB board (South Africa)
ACDB (alternating current distribution board)
DCDB (direct current distribution board)
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Type of breakers based on number of pole:
Based on the number of poles, the breakers are classified as
5. 4 Pole MCB:
4pole MCCB for 4 wires connections, the one additional 4th pole for
neutral wire connection so that between neutral and any of the other
three will supply.
In 4-Pole MCCBs the neutral pole is also having protective release as
in the phase poles.
Application: Three Phase Supply with Neutral
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2. Rules of Safety of Electricity
Rule no. 1
Avoid contact with energized electrical circuits. Please don’t make fun of this
rule if you already know this (and you probably already know if you are reading
these lines) and remember that if something bad occurs – you probably won’t
have second chance. That’s not funny.
Rule no. 2
Treat all electrical devices as if they are live or energized. You never know.
Rule no. 3
Rule no. 4
Use only tools and equipment with non-conducting handles when working on
electrical devices.
Easy to check.
Rule no. 5
Never use metallic pencils or rulers, or wear rings or metal watchbands when
working with electrical equipment. This rule is very easy to forget, especially
when you are showing some electrical part pointing with metallic pencil.
Always be aware.
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Rule no. 6
When it is necessary to handle equipment that is plugged in, be sure hands are
dry and, when possible, wear nonconductive gloves, protective clothes and shoes
with insulated soles.
Rule no. 7
If it is safe to do so, work with only one hand, keeping the other hand at your side
or in your pocket, away from all conductive material. This precaution reduces the
likelihood of accidents that result in current passing through the chest cavity.
If you ever read about current passing through human body you will know, so
remember – work with one hand only.
If you don’t clue about electric current path through human body, read more in
following technical articles:
Do You Understand What Is Electric Shock?
What psychological effect does an electric shock?
Rule no. 8
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Rule no. 9
If water or a chemical is spilled onto equipment, shut off power at the main
switch or circuit breaker and unplug the equipment.
Very logical. NEVER try to remove water or similar from equipment while
energized. After all, it’s stupid to do so.
Rule no. 10
Tricky situation and you must be very calm in order not to make the situation
even worse.
Rule no. 11
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Rule no. 12
Do not rely on grounding to mask a defective circuit nor attempt to correct a fault
by insertion of another fuse or breaker, particularly one of larger capacity.
Rule no. 13
Drain capacitors before working near them and keep the short circuit on the
terminals during the work to prevent electrical shock.
Rule no. 14
Rule no. 15
Enclose all electric contacts and conductors so that no one can accidentally come
into contact with them.
Rule no. 16
Never handle electrical equipment when hands, feet, or body are wet or
perspiring, or when standing on a wet floor.
Rule no. 17
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Rule no. 18
Rule no. 19
Be aware that interlocks on equipment disconnect the high voltage source when a
cabinet door is open but power for control circuits may remain on.
Read the single line diagram and wiring schemes – know your switchboard.
Rule no. 20
Rule no. 21
Do not wear loose clothing or ties near electrical equipment. Act like an electrical
engineer, you are not on the beach.
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1. Single way 34.PVC conduit
2. Tumbler socket (15 Amp) 35.PVC Socket
3. Single way (tumbler switch) 36.Shaded Lamp
4. Tumbler socket 37.Run Capacitor
5. Pendent Holder 38.Start Capacitor
6. Batten Holder 39.Ampere Meter
7. Angle Batten Holder 40.Volt Meter
8. Piano Socket 41.Aconite Switch
9. Piano Switch 15 Amp 42.
10.Piano Type (Bed Switch)
11.Push Switch
12.Tube Light Holder (spring side)
13.Tube Light Holder (star side)
14.Ballast
15.Piano 40 watt 5 Amp two way switch
16.Piano Type cut out 10 Amp
17.Fuse
18.Push Batten Switch // surface bell push
19.On//Off switch
20.Two way On//Off switch
21.Tube Light Starter
22.Three Phase Circuit
23.Magnetic Starter
24.Thermal Overload Relay
25.Single phase circuit
26.Two piano round plug (5Amp) PVC
27.Three piano round plug
28.Ceiling Rose 5 Amp
29.Three Way circular base
30.Single Way circular base
31.Bend ( ¾)
32.Elbow ( ¾)
33.Three Bend
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1. Flat file
2. Half round file 37.Connecting screw driver
3. Grip vice 38.Inside circlip opener
4. Triangular file 39.Clamp
5. Square file 40.Electric Hand drill machine
6. Round file 41.Venire chipper
7. Hack Saw frame with blade 42.Nail plugging pliers
8. Measuring tap // steel tap 43.Flat chisel
9. File brush 44.Wooden chisel
10.Helmet 45.Triangular chipper
11.Wooden saw 46.Claw hammer
12.Neon tester 47.Ball peen hammer
13.Earth tester 48.Open and spanner
14.Allen key 49.Combination spanner
15.Safety belt 50.Adjustable spanner
16.Hand Gloves 51.Hand grinding machine
17.Hand drill machine 52.Safety goggles
18.Drift punch 53.mucks
19.Centre punch 54.pulley puller
20.Pin punch 55.Scissors
21.Divider 56.Soldering iron
22. Try Square 57.Sucker
23.Outside chipper 58.Try Square
24.Centre punch 59.Plastic Hammer or soft
25.Steel punch 60.Cross peen hammer
26.Crimping pliers
27.Cable cutter
28.Wire striper
29.Insulation cutter
30.Combination pliers
31.cutting pliers
32.Long pliers
33.Outside micrometer
34.Twist drill pit
35.Flat screw driver
36.Connecting Screw driver
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|| 5 || Electrical Wire Joints
1. Splice Joints
2. Married Joints
3. Tape Joints
4. Turn Joints
5. Splice Joints
6. Britannia Joints
7. Tape Joint get
8. Bell hanger Joints
9. Britannia tape Joints
10.Double Cross Joints
11.Pig tail Joints
12.Western union joints
1. Cleat wiring
2. Cross wiring
3. Conduit wiring
4. Batten wiring
5. Channel wiring
6. Hook wiring
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|| 7 || PVC Cables
"PVC Polyvinyl chloride, more correctly but unusually poly (vinyl chloride),
Commonly abbreviated PVC is the third-most widely produced synthetic plastic polymer,
after polyethylene and polypropylene.
PVC comes in two basic forms: rigid (sometimes abbreviated as RPVC) and flexible. The rigid
form of PVC is used in construction for pipe and in profile applications such as doors and
windows. It is also used for bottles, other non-food packaging, and cards (such as bank or
membership cards). It can be made softer and more flexible by the addition of plasticizers, the
most widely used being phthalates. In this form, it is also used in plumbing, electrical cable
insulation, imitation leather, signage, inflatable products, and many applications where it
replaces rubber.
Pure poly (vinyl chloride) is a white, brittle solid. It is insoluble in alcohol but slightly soluble
in tetrahydrofuran.
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|| 8 || Switches
Switches:
In electrical and electronic system, a switch
is a device, which can make or break an
electrical circuit or we can say that switch is
a controlling device, which interrupt the
flow of current or direct the flow of current
in another direction. Almost all the
electrical and electronics systems contain
at least one switch, which is used to make
the device ON or OFF. In addition, a switch
is used to control the circuit operation and
user may able to activate or deactivate the
whole or certain parts of the connected
circuit.
Mechanical Switches:
Mechanical switch is a switch in which two metal plates touch each other to make a
physical contact for the current to flow and separate from each other to interrupt the
flow of current. There are many types of Mechanical switches and they are also being
categories on the basis of power handling capacity. The contact material is chosen by
keeping in mind that the metal oxides, which produced due to corrosion, are mostly
insulator and layers of such oxides on the switch plates will hinder the normal
operation of the switch.
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Mechanical Switches can be categories on the basis of their operation:
This is a simple ON/OFF switch. It is also called as On Way Switch (in the US, they
called it Two-Way Switch). When a user press the button of the switch, then the plates
of the switch connect with each other and the current starts to flow and vice versa.
This button has three pins in which, one pin is used as common and called a Two-Way
Switch (in US, they called it Three-Way Switch). We can send two different signals to
same pin by using this switch. Because of this functionality, this switch is also called
selector switch.
Other switches related to SPDT are SPCO (Single Pole Changeover) and SPTT
(Single Pole Center Off or Single Pole Triple Throw)
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DPST (Double Pole, Single Throw)
This switch is basically two SPST switches in one package and can be operated by a
single lever. This switch is mostly used, where we have to break both ground and lines
at the same time.
This switch is equivalent to two SPDT switches packaged in one pack. This switch has
two common pins and four signal pins. Total four different combinations of singles can
be applied to the input pins of this switch. Another switch, related to DPDT is DPCO
(Double Pole Changeover or Double Pole, Centre Off).
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2P6T (Two Pole, Six Throw)
It is a type of the changeover switch with a common (COM) which may be connected
to six lines with a second two pole switch, which controlling and the operation of the
switch is same.
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In other cases , the terminal contacts of switch is meet terminal A with terminal B and
terminal C meet with terminal D as shown in fig 1 b.
When the knob of the switch is UP, then the vertical contacts are meeting (i.e. AC and
BD as shown in fig 1a). And when the knob is DOWN, then the Horizontal contacts are
meeting (i.e. AB and CD as shown in fig 1b).
This kind of switch is used in a hall, big rooms or Go down where different lamps are
require to ON/OFF from different places. Moreover, in a multistory building, the lamp at
ground floor, in car parking shade can be controlled or ON / OFF from any floor by
using intermediate switch circuit.
In Fig 2, a lamp is controlled from three different places by using two, 2-way switches
and one intermediate switch.
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In fig 3, a lamp is controlled from six different places by using two, 2-way switches and
four intermediate switches.
A lamp is controlled from six different places by using two, 2-way and four intermediate
switches.
Key Point: You can control a lamp from many different places by adding more
intermediate switches.
The Above discussed switches are Mechanical switches and they are user manually
operated. Now, we are going to discuss Electrical switches, which are faster in
response than mechanical switches and can be switched automatically by an
electronic circuit like microcontroller or microprocessor.
They can also be categories on the basis of current and voltage rating like mechanical
switches.
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There are the most widely used electronic switches.
1. Transistor:-
Transistor can be used in different mode of operation but we are going to discuss the
transistor as a switch. If we apply a large amount of current at the base of the transistor
(keeping in mind the maximum allowed current for the this type of transistor) then we
can run this transistor in deep saturation mode
2. Mosfets:-
Mosfet can also be used for switching purpose at high frequencies. They can operate
at Mega hertz frequencies. Mostly, Mosfets used for PWM (pulse width modulation).
Mosfets have three terminals.
1) Gate
2) Drain
3) Source
3. Relays:-
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|| 9 || Electrical Measurements
Voltage sources
Batteries and other voltage sources have internal resistance. When they
do work moving charges against the electric force, some of this work is
already converted to thermal energy in the battery. The amount of energy
lost to thermal energy in the battery is Ir, where I is the current flowing in
the circuit and r is the internal resistance of the battery. The voltage across
the battery terminals therefore drops from the nominal value V to (V - Ir)
when a current is flowing in the circuit. In a circuit diagram we represent
the internal resistance of the battery by a resistor r connected in series with
the emf.
Voltmeters
The voltmeter must have a resistance much larger than that of the
resistor. If the resistance of the voltmeter is large, only a negligible current
flows through the meter.
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Ammeters
So now I am going to provide you some connections as a word and then you will try to
connect about these connections. Already you are given answer of question one so they are 50
questions.
1. Connect one bulb by one switch (AC)?
2. Connect two bulbs by two switches as a parallel (AC)?
3. Connect three bulbs by three switches as a parallel (AC)?
4. Connect one switch and three bulbs by series connection (AC)?
5. Connect one switch with two bulbs by parallel (AC)?
6. Connect three bulbs with one switch by parallel (AC)?
7. Connect two switches with one bulb and socket by parallel (AC)?
8. Connect two bulbs with one switch by series connection (AC)?
9. Connect one bulb with one switch, two parallel bulbs with one switch two series bulbs
with one switch and 5 amp two pin socket with one switch (AC)?
10.Connect two series and three parallel bulbs connection by one switch (if one of series
bulbs out from the batten holder parallel bulbs will off) (AC)?
11.Connect two series and three parallel bulbs with one switch (if one series bulb out from
batten holder the other parallel bulbs will not off) (AC)?
12.Connect one ceiling fan with one switch (AC)?
13.Connect one bulb with one switch, three series and three parallel bulbs with one switch,
two ceiling fan with two switch, one two pin socket with one switch (AC)?
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14.Connect one bulb with one switch, two ceiling fan with one switch, 2(two pin socket)
with one switches (AC)?
15.Connect one calling bell controlled with one push switch (AC)?
16.Connect one calling bell controlled with two push switch by series (AC)?
17.Connect one calling bell controlled with two push switch by parallel and difference watt
of bulbs (AC)?
18.Connect one calling bell controlled with three push switch by parallel and difference watt
of bulbs (AC)?
19.Connect one calling bell controlled with four push switch by parallel and difference watt
of bulbs (AC)?
20.Connect one bulb with one switch, two parallel bulbs with one switch, three series bulbs
with one switch, two ceiling fan with one switch, two sockets pin with one switch and
one calling bell with one switch (AC)?
21.Connect one gang one way switch with two bulbs of parallel (AC)?
22.Connect two gangs one way switch with two bulbs of parallel (AC)?
23.Connect three gangs one way switch with three bulbs of parallel (AC)?
24.Connect four gangs one way switch with four bulbs of parallel (AC)?
25.Connect five gangs one way switch with five bulbs of parallel (AC)?
26.Connect one gang one way switch with two pin socket (AC)?
27.Connect one gang one way switch with one ceiling fan (AC)?
28.Connect one bulb with two way switch by series connection (AC)?
29.Connect one bulb controlled from three places by using two way and intermediate switch
(AC)?
30.Connect one bulb controlled from four places by using two way and two intermediate
switch (AC)?
31.Connect two bulbs with one switch by parallel and two bulbs controlled from two places
by parallel (AC)?
32.Connect 15 Amp socket with 15 Amp switch and circuit breaker (AC)?
33.Connect one six pin combined with circuit breaker (AC)?
34.Connect one six pin combined and indicator lamp with circuit breaker (AC)?
35.Connect one bulb with one switch, one ceiling fan with one switch, one calling bell with
one switch, one templar socket 5 Amp with one switch, one templar socket 15 Amp with
templar switch to operate by water pumps, one six pin combined with circuit breaker to
operate one fridge (AC)?
36.Connect one tube light with one switch (AC)?
37.Connect one tube light with one switch and one bed switch (AC)?
38.Connect one bulb that will difference bright once high and once low by using capacitor
(AC)?
39. Connect 15 Amp socket with 15 Amp switch and with two separate circuit breaker
(AC)?
40.Connect to test lamp with switch series circuit board (or make series circuit board by one
switch) (AC)?
41.Connect series with parallel circuit board by one switch (AC)?
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42.Connect series lamp for working two phase line (AC)?
43.Connect two bulbs with two switches separately, two ceiling fan with two switches, two
series bulbs with one switch, three parallel bulbs with one switch, one bulb controlled
from two places, two difference bright of light with one switch, one tube light with bed
switch by one switch, one calling bell will ring from two places, two 5 Amp socket with
one switch, one six pin combined socket to operate refrigeration, 15 Amp socket
connection to operate water pump (AC)?
44.Connect one voltmeter by single phase line by using always parallel connection (AC)?
45.Connect one Ammeter by single phase line by using always series connection (AC)?
46.Connect one Voltmeter and one Ammeter connection by in single phase line (AC)?
47.Connect three Voltmeter by three phase line (440 watt) (AC)?
48.Connect three Voltmeter by three phases with one line (220 watt) (AC)?
49.Connect three Voltmeter and three Ammeter connections by in three phases line (440
watt) (AC)?
50.Connect two bulbs with one switch separately, one bulb two difference bright of lighting,
two series and two parallel bulbs controlled from one place, one ceiling fan with one 2
pin socket, one tube light with one switch, one calling bell controlled from two places to
operate one fridge and one water pump connect by power socket with all types of devices
(AC)?
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1. Piano fuse
2. Piano switch
3. Red wire (phase)
4. Batten holder
5. Bulb
6. Black wire (neutral)
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