meatwadttm

So for the past few weeks, my electrical academy instructor has been giving us wiring diagrams for us to try out. He started out giving us a diagram and showing us which wires go where. We hooked up a light with 1, 2, and 3 switches, some duplex receptacles *plug ins*, and did them in different ways such as having the power come in through the switch, through the lighting outlet, and so on. Anyways, he gave us a diagram that I will draw in paint for yall.....


That was our basic diagram. The rectangles with the letter "S" represent a single pole switch, s3 represents a three way switch, s4 represents a 4 way switch, the rectangle with the two ovals represents a duplex receptacle, and the square with rounded edges represent 4" octagon boxes used for our lighting fixtures. The lines that have lines going through them represent wire. If it has 2 lines going through it, it is "2 wire" meaning it has 2 insulated conductors, *black-hot and white-neutral* and an uninsulated grounding wire. the one with 3 lines is 3 wire meaning it has red, black, and white insulated wires with the red having the ability to be hot.

above the DARK bold black line, the 2 black lines with a redline going through them is my 120v power source. it is switch operated so if i'm hooked up to it while I'm workin on my stuff, i don't get the **** shocked out of me. Haven't shocked myself, but a one dude has...twice and a few others cut themselves with the knife while stripping out the outer insulation to get to the insulated conductors.

*On switches, the neutral-*white* can be used as a hot wire if it is marked appropriately.*current travels into bottom of switch through hot black wire, when switch is on current travels to top pole where it goes through white wire onto positive side of light fixture and bling, you have light*

anyways, some pix...

Everything I had after I took it all down. Wire's are shorter in the picture than they were when hooked up cuz i went the quick route and cut a lot of them.
before I had my lights ready to be installed
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and a vid:

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meatwadttm

towards the end, where u hear the wierd chirping noise and camera gets jacked up, i was usin the volt ohm meter to make sure my duplex outlets were working.

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Paceley200099

I'm not sure how to respond to this.

I used to use protoboards to light up LEDs?

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Hey, remember when I was like, 10?

meatwadttm

Wella while back I told everyone about this workforce investment act academy i was accepted into. It's free to join and we get paid for it, and the electric company will most likely hire me on after job shadowing. Just showin that ur tax dollars weren't goin to waste and that I was actually using them to learn a trade. : btw...ur tax dollars will pay for me til the end of june, but it's only around 1500 or so. But hey, I'll pay it back later with my tax dollars and atleast i'm not asking for a hand out, I'm asking for a hand up.

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Wes Himself

Maybe you and Firealarm boy should get together.

<3

wes.

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meatwadttm

HELL NAW!!!!!!!!!!

Better take it back.. Cuz if u don't, when I wire up a house for you, I'll leave an open air splice with no wirenuts and some metal layin right next to some insulation.......
J/k.

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sperkins

I'm not too sure about it because I haven't had much experience.

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MY Work!

meatwadttm

Dunno if i said it, but I didn't take the time to screw all the devices on then put cover plates on because as soon as I hooked it up and got it working, I had to take it all back down so we could go start in our stalls. Today I gotta hook up my receptacles to the breakers *already run wire and stripped it, just didn't hook it up* and install the lighting fixture. Already got the switch ready to go, just gotta hook that up to the breaker as well. Then I gotta nail up 2 more boxes and add 2 more switches for a 4 way setup. *Turn the light off from 3 different switches, like turnin it on when you come in a room in one door, and goin out another door and turnin it back off.

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