Customer Reviews

The Basics of Household Electrical Wiring - Extended Edition

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This DVD is a great educational program. Everything is explained and illustrated so clearly that even a layman, such as myself, can understand. I learned a lot from watching the program. Highly recommended.

An excelent source for learning basic home electrial wiring.Good quality video with naration. Touches a littl bit on NEC codes, wire gauge,service panel and grounding. A great product for layman who want to challenge a few DIY projects in the home. Would be a great compliment to a well written book on basic wiring.

I just bought a home and have little knowledge of electricity. I have been able to save myself quite a bit of money by using this dvd. It has already paid for itself multiple times over. My home was built in 1969 so i have some updating to do. I have successfully installed a ceiling fan in the master bedroom which previously didn't have a ceiling light. it was set up where the wall switch controlled a wall socket with a lamp. I recommend this to anyone who wants to save a few bucks by doing the work yourself. You don't need expensive tools.

Tools needed:

Drywall saw
Screwdrivers
Wire strippers
electrical tape/wire caps (connectors)
and
voltage tester (dont need an expensive one, maybe 10-20 dollars)

Rating of 4 Stars because of a large inconvenience.

Received first DVD, was preparing for some work and needed/wanted to have this available for use. Spent about 4 hours fighting with the first DVD delivered, on 5 different Computers and 3 different DVD players - darn thing would not work correctly, seizing in different areas most of the time (30min, 22min, 48min, etc.) into the showtimes.

As a result, the Amazon return was pretty straight forward and aside time and aggravation lost to delivery #1 DVD....the final return was okay, with the second one sent next day just fine.

The second DVD, well it worked perfect. Problem free.

However, we were unfortunately set back a couple weeks because of the first DVD malfunctioning.

Feedbacks here on Amazon are older (2010), but we thought since they were 4 and 5 star, this was worth a try.

The content was found to be very good actually...stated in layman terms, easy to understand graphics, a good solid foundation for learning how a residential power system/service works, and the installed devices such as switches, outlets and lights. The visualizations also really helped (i.e. rocker switches, return signals, power, phases, pre-installations, prep work, safety, GFI, AFI, etc.)

Safety is enforced throughout...shows the level of concern for the DVD developers, producers, hosts, etc. That was very much appreciated.

We liked everything about this DVD (once we got one that worked).

Its divided up into about 10-15 small chapters, it covers a vast amount in about 1.5hrs time. Detailed, easy to follow. Have already recommended to friends and let some family borrow it too.

We highly recommend this to anyone just starting out....a newbie should find this DVD rather helpful!