light switch wiring

[mdcorreia]

Where are the lineman's pliers to TWIST the wires before inserting the marrett!

[Electrotime]

I have a stranded wire and a solid you cant twist them together with linemans you need 2 solid wires for that. You need to educate yourself more before you go and try to talk big.

[tslabjr7]

lastly the circuit breaker is a joke! what are you talking about? all you do is snap in a 15 amp or 20 amp (doesn't really matter) hook the grounded conductors (white and green or copper) to the appropriate buss bar and lastly pop in the hot wire to the breaker and your done! installing a panel is hard! not wiring one! you ever play around with large live feeder wires 20 feet up in the air and not allowed to have any type of circuit protection such as insulated gloves and insulated tools?

[Electrotime]

You can not just put in a 20 amp circuit breaker for an installaton like this, that is a major code violation. Your ground and nutral go on the same buss bar, theres no other buss bar in the panel that I am aware of, except for sub panels. As far as playing with the feeder wires it is completly foolish to work with that stuff and not have the proper saftey, have you ever heard of OSHA.

[tslabjr7]

@Electrotime depending on current is doesn't really matter! 14 gage can handle 25 amps! 15 amps isn't enough for some circuits! now as far as bus bars go!

in a residential and a commercial panel there are 2 separate buss bars! lastly OSHA approved this task in my apprenticeship program! as long as we ware a harness! my tech school i attend is the second best in the country! this program i attend is always the hardest course to take! it has everything and prepares you well!

[Electrotime]

I know it can handle it but its a code violation!!!!!!!! There are 2 buss bars in the panel for you to aply the nutral and ground wires not the ungrounded! I have taken the 10 hr OSHA saftey course and more and to be up in the air and not have proper tools its amazing the tech school would assign that because the tech school I went to was absolutly against that!!

[tslabjr7]

@Electrotime i will be making a video of me wiring my basement! from start to finish! check it out once i have it completed!

[Electrotime]

OK. If you have any request on me wiring anything let me know right away.

[tslabjr7]

@Electrotime in my tech school, we run 20 amps threw 14 gage all the time! depends on the conductor really! if it was aluminum i would be on your side! its a wonder how that crap is even legal to wire with! my school is 100% with OSHA! the tasks we do are so realistic OSHA comes in once a year to inspect it! 12 gage is most common electrical wire! if you where using 12 gage 15 and 20 amps are both suitable! but commonly 20! what type of tools do you use? and how much do you know how to do?

[Electrotime]

OSHA is a fantasitic program. 12awg is used for branching in outlets alot and is pretty common but we use 14 more. I do eveything from residential to industrial work. If you want I could send you a page of all the tools we use because its to much to type.

[tslabjr7]

@Electrotime in a residential home i will agree that 14 is used more! but in commercial and industrial places all small branch circuits must be 12! we are not allowed to use 14 on out side jobs in our school!

[ballsniff13]

people stop dising on the poor guy hes is only trying to help by showing u something god assholes dude dont take shit from the asshole that leave mean comments

[Electrotime]

Thanks dude.

[Chem1001]

Also, there is no cable with six cores for lighting circuits.

[Electrotime]

You would have to run 2 3 way switch wires.

[Chem1001]

You say it is called a 3 way switch because it has THREE screws, yet if I had nine light switches in a room, the switches don;t have nine screws, do they?

[Electrotime]

No theres no such thing. The only way thats possible if theres 2 four way switches in the middle of 7 three way switches.

[Chem1001]

What?

There's no such thing? Lol.

Maybe I have a mansion, not saying that I have, but what if I did. I could easily have nine switches. And what do you mean by "in the middle"?

[Electrotime]

The four way switch always have to be in the middle watch tim carters four way switch video and look in his kitchen in the begining the switches that were turned 2 and 3 where four ways.

[Chem1001]

I already have watched Tim Carter's videos. And after I did, I was intellectually insulted by listening to someone explaining everthing wrong. Why exactly does it have to be "in the middle"?

For example, I can have two switches, and put the third switch as far away from it as I want, it doesn't have to be in the middle, just as long as it's wired correctly.

[Electrotime]

Its easyer to have it in the middle because then you dont have to make the one wire longer. Wires from the 3 way switches have to run into the 4 way switch to work right.

[Chem1001]

That's why we have 100 mertre drums of cable ;)

[Electrotime]

Same here:)

[Chem1001]

There is no such thing as a 3 way or 4 way switch.

It is called an intermediate circuit.

[Electrotime]

it is called an intermediate circut and there is a switch that is a 3way and 4 way.

[Chem1001]

Why is it called a "three way switch" when you only have TWO switches?

Where does the "three" come from?

[Electrotime]

If you get a 3 way switch and look at it theres 3 screws also the green grounding screw. There is 3 wires inside 3 way switch wire also the ground wire. Take a look at the 10th related video on the side hope its helps. If theres anymore questions just ask me.

[Chem1001]

Ok then, so when you have a light controlled by five switches, why is it called a six way switch? Where does the "six" come from?

There isn't six screws, so why would it be called "six way"?

[Electrotime]

Its not called a 6 way switch. It would be called a six way wired ciurcut.

[Chem1001]

Ehh.

If you have three or more switches in lighting circuit, it is much easier to call it an intermediate circuit. A three way switch only only having two switches confuses matters. For example, two way switches are called two way because they operate from TWO points.

Do you have a "two way" switch in America?

[Electrotime]

A two way switch is 1 switch controlled from 1 point.

[Chem1001]

What?! Wow.

So if there is no switch on the wall and no light, you call it a 1 way? :P

[Electrotime]

why call it a switch at all if nothing is there and theres no screws on it?

[Chem1001]

Lol, it was sarcasm man. You seem to call everything one more number than it actually is: You know: One switch is two way. Two is three way. Three way is four way. I'm comparing it to where I live.

[Electrotime]

Where do you live?

[eddieeddieeddie13]

Cool.

[Electrotime]

thanks