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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Electrical Repair [Paperback]

Terry Meany (Author)
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The Complete Idiot's Guide February 18, 2000

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Electrical Repair is a basic instruction manual on home wiring and repair. The book covers AC/DC, volts, watts, fuses, and circuit breakers, national and local codes, and caution signs and safety concerns. Learn when it's best to do-it-yourself and when you need to bring in the pros. Also covered are extension cords and multiple strips, switches and receptacles, installing fixtures and adding new circuits, and working around existing wiring.



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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Electrical Repair is a basic instruction manual on home wiring and repair. The book covers AC/DC, volts, watts, fuses, and circuit breakers, national and local codes, and caution signs and safety concerns. Learn when it's best to do-it-yourself and when you need to bring in the pros. Also covered are extension cords and multiple strips, switches and receptacles, installing fixtures and adding new circuits, and working around existing wiring.

About the Author

Terry Meany has been a professional home restorer for two decades. A talented amateur who picked up wiring skills as a homeowner and from observing electricians on remodeling jobs, his work has included adding numerous circuits in two houses and replacing ones with new, grounded cable. The author of The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Remodeling Your Home, Care for Your Home The Lazy Way, and Working Windows: A Guide to the Repair and Restoration of Wood Windows, Terry lives in the Seattle area.


Product Details

  • Paperback: 400 pages
  • Publisher: Alpha; 1 edition (February 18, 2000)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0028638964
  • ISBN-13: 978-0028638966
  • Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.5 x 1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,048,224 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1.0 out of 5 stars Waste of money, September 26, 2011
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Don't buy this book. It contains little useful information and is poorly illustrated. I bought this book because I want add a new panel to my house and am considering doing most of the wiring myself. After reading the book, I still don't know how to wire light switches in different parts of a room to control the same light fixtures, how to wire 220V circuits, what type of wire to use for different amperages, etc. The wiring drawings are scanned drawings done on paper and there are no diagrams at all telling you what wires to connect where. The photos are black and white and on the Kindle you can't really see anything. Honestly, the authors need to read The Complete Idiot's Guide to writing Complete Idiot's Guides.
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