American Electricians' Handbook

by Summers, Wilford I.; Croft, Terrell

• ISBN13: 9780071377355
• ISBN10: 0071377352
• Edition: 14th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-06-07
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional

Summary

* Since 1913, the single source blockbuster for all essential information on designing, installing, operating, and maintaining electrical systems and equipment * Includes advancements in fiber optic cables, grounding, arc-fault circuit interrupter devices, and transient voltage surge suppressors * Complete with the latest updates on National Electrical Code, National Safety Code, and NEMA motor and generator standards * Features new information on high efficiency motors and electronic control of motors * Provides the latest developments in circuits and circuit calculations, transformers, wiring tables, lamp applications tables, and more

Author Biography

WILFORD SUMMERS (Colorado Springs, CO) is an electrical consultant and former Executive Director of the International Association of Electrical Inspectors.

TERRELL CROFT (deceased)

Table of Contents

Division 1: FUNDAMENTALS

Chapter 1: Useful Tables

Chapter 2: Conversion Factors

Chapter 3: Graphical Electrical Symbols

Chapter 4: Principles of Electricity and Magnetism: Units

Chapter 5: Measuring, Testing, and InstrumentsHarmonics

Division 2 PROPERTIES AND SPLICING OF CONDUCTORS

Chapter 6: Electrical Conducting Wires and Cables

Chapter 7: Cable Joints and Terminal Connections

Chapter 8: Aluminum-Building-Wire Installation Practices

Chapter 9: Termination and Splice Kits

Division 3 CIRCUITS AND CIRCUIT CALCULATIONS

Chapter 10: Types of Circuits

Chapter 11: Electrical Systems

Chapter 12: Circuit Calculations

Division 4 GENERAL ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT AND BATTERIES

Chapter 13: Introduction

Chapter 14: Switches

Chapter 15: Installation of Switches

Chapter 16: Protective Devices

Chapter 17: Switchboards and Switchgear

Chapter 18: Panelboards

Chapter 19: General Wiring Materials and Devices

Chapter 20: Power Capacitors

Chapter 21: Batteries: General

Chapter 22: Primary Batteries

Chapter 23: Storage Batteries: General

Chapter 24: Lead-Acid Storage Batteries

Chapter 25: Nickel-Iron-Alkaline Batteries

Chapter 26: Nickel-Cadmium Batteries

Chapter 27: Installation of Storage Batteries

Chapter 28: General Construction Materials

Division 5 TRANSFORMERS

Chapter 29: Construction, Types, and Characteristics

Chapter 30: Connections: Polarity

Chapter 31: Single-Phase Connectons

Chapter 32: Two-Phase Connections

Chapter 33: Three-Phase Connections

Chapter 34: Connections for Three-Phase Transformers

Chapter 35: Parallel Operation

Chapter 36: Connections and Applications of Autotransformers

Chapter 37: Installation, Care, and Operation

Chapter 38: Provisions for Different Types of Transformers

Chapter 39: Provisions for Transformer VaultsThe Noise Problem

Chapter 40: Pole and Platform Mounting

Chapter 41: Saturable-Core Reactor

Division 6 SOLID-STATE DEVICES AND CIRCUITS

Chapter 42: Fundamentals of Electronics

Chapter 43: Discrete Solid-State Components

Chapter 44: Integrated Circuits

Chapter 45: Integrated-Circuit Logic FunctionsMicrocomputers

Chapter 46: Electronic Memories

Division 7 GENERATORS AND MOTORS

Chapter 47: Principles, Characteristics and Management of DC Generators (Dynamos)

Chapter 48: Principles, Characteristics, and Management of AC Generators (Alternators)

Chapter 49: Principles, Characteristics, and Management of Electric Motors

Chapter 50: Direct-Current Motors

Chapter 51: Alternating-Current Motors

Chapter 52: Conversion Equipment

Chapter 53: Troubles of AC Motors and Generators: Their Localization and Correction

Chapter 54: Care of Motors

Chapter 55: Control Equipment for Motors

Chapter 56: Motor Drives and Application

Chapter 57: Motor Circuits

Chapter 58: Control Circuits

Chapter 59: Air-Conditioning and Refrigerating Equipment

Chapter 60: Engine- and Gas-Turbine Generators

Division 8 OUTSIDE DISTRIBUTION

Chapter 61: Pole Lines: General, Construction, and Equipment

Chapter 62: Pole-Line Construction

Chapter 63: Pole-Line Guying

Chapter 64: Underground Wiring

Chapter 65: Grounding of Systems

Division 9 INTERIOR WIRING

Chapter 66: General

Chapter 67: Open Wiring On Insulators

Chapter 68: Concealed Knob-and-Tube Wiring

Chapter 69: Rigid-Metal-Conduit and Intermediate-Metal-Conduit Wiring

Chapter 70: Interior or Aboveground Wiring with Rigid Nonmetallic Conduit

Chapter 71: Flexible-Metal-Conduit Wiring

Chapter 72: fLiquidtight Flexible-Metal-Conduit Wiring

Chapter 73: Metal-Clad–Cable Wiring: Types AC and MC

Chapter 73: Surface-Raceway Wiring

Chapter 74: Electrical-Metallic-Tubing Wiring

Chapter 75: Nonmetallic-Sheathed–Cable Wiring

Chapter 76: Mineral-Insulated Metal-Sheathed–Cable Wiring

Chapter 77: Medium-Voltage–Cable Wiring

Chapter 78: Underground-Feeder and Branch-Circuit–Cable Wiring

Chapter 79: Interior Wiring with Service-Entrance Cable

Chapter 80: Underfloor-Raceway Wiring

Chapter 81: Wireway Wiring

Chapter 82: Busway Wiring

Chapter 83: Cellular-Metal-Floor–Raceway Wiring

Chapter 84: Cellular-Concrete-Floor–Raceway Wiring

Chapter 85: Wiring with Multioutlet Assemblies

Chapter 86: Cablebus Wiring

Chapter 87: Cable Trays

Chapter 88: General Requirements for Wiring Installations

Chapter 89: Crane Wiring

Chapter 90: Wiring for Circuits of Over 600 Volts

Chapter 91: Wiring for Circuits of Less Than 50 Volts

Chapter 92: Wiring for Hazardous Locations

Chapter 93: Installation of Appliances

Chapter 94: Electric Comfort Conditioning

Chapter 95: Wiring for Electric Signs and Outline Lighting

Chapter 96: Remote-Control, Signaling, and Power-Limited Circuits

Chapter 97: Wiring for Special Occupanices

Chapter 98: Design of Interior-Wiring Installations

Chapter 99: Wiring for Residential Outdoor Lighting

Chapter 100: Wiring for Commercial and Industrial Occupancies

Chapter 101: Farm Wiring

Division 10 ELECTRIC LIGHTING

Chapter 102: Principles and Units

Chapter 103: Electric-Light Sources

Chapter 104: Incandescent (Filament) Lamps

Chapter 105: Fluorescent Lamps

Chapter 106: Gaseous-Discharge Lamps

Chapter 107: Neon Lamps

Chapter 108: Ultraviolet-Light Sources

Chapter 109: Infrared Heating Lamps

Chapter 110: Luminaires

Chapter 111: Principles of Lighting-Installation Design

Chapter 112: Tables for Interior Illumination Design

Chapter 113: Interior-Lighting Suggestions

Chapter 114: Heat with Light for Building Spaces

Chapter 115: Street Lighting

Chapter 116: Floodlighting

Division 11 OPTICAL FIBER

Chapter 117: General

Chapter 118: Cabling

Chapter 119: Connectors

Chapter 120: Splices

Chapter 121: Testing

Chapter 122: Basic Terminology

Chapter 123: Light Sources

Chapter 124: Types of Optical Fibers

Chapter 125: Breakout Kits

Chapter 126: Safety

Chapter 127: Non-Communication Applications

Division 12 WIRING AND DESIGN TABLES

Chapter 128: Standard Sizes of Lamps for General Illumination, in Watts

Chapter 129: Demand Factors and Data for Determining Minimum Loads

Chapter 130: Full-Load Currents of Motors

Chapter 131: Capacitor Ratings for Use with Three-Phase 60-Hz Motors

Chapter 132: Ampacities of Conductors

Chapter 133: Ampacity of Flexible Cords and Cables

Chapter 134: Ampacity of Fixture Wires

Chapter 135: Ampacity of Aluminum Cable, Steel-Reinforced

Chapter 136: Ampacity of Parkway Cables Buried Directly in Ground

Chapter 137: Number of Conductors in Conduit and Dimensions

Chapter 138: Compact Aluminum Wire and Dimensions

Chapter 139: Switches-Termination Spac

Chapter 140: Switch-Gutter and Termination Space

Chapter 141: Enclosed Switch Wiring Space

Chapter 142: Elevation of Unguarded Parts above

Chapter 143: Working Space

Chapter 144: Ordinary Ratings of Overload Protective Devices, in Amperes

Chapter 145: Nonrenewable Cartridge Fuses

Chapter 146: Ratings and Number of Overload Protective Devices

Chapter 147: Motor Code Letters and Locked-Rotor Kilovolt-Amperes

Chapter 148: Maximum Ratings for Motor Branch-Circuit Protection

Chapter 149: Conversion Table of Single-Phase Locked Rotor Currents

Chapter 150: Conversion Table of Polyphase Design B, C, D, and E Maximum Locked Rotor

Chapter 151: Currents

Chapter 152: Horsepower Ratings of Fused Switches

Chapter 153: Minimum Branch-Circuit Sizes for Motors

Chapter 154: Maximum Allowable Voltage Drop

Chapter 155: Graph for Computing Copper-Conductor

Chapter 156: Sizes According to Voltage Drop

Chapter 157: Data for Computing Voltage Drop

Chapter 158: Metric Practice

Index