Understanding House Electricity

Save Time, Money, and Perhaps Your Life, by Learning About House Electricity

What do you need to know about house electricity to save a lot of time and money, and, perhaps the life of a loved one?

For starters, in this day of electricity everywhere in every aspect of our daily lives, every person needs to understand the three basic concepts about electricity, Voltage, Current, and Resistance, and how they are related in all aspects of any house electricity.

Voltage is the source of Current, which will kill you if you are the resistance.  Click on Basic Facts About Electricity for more information.

What about time and money savings from knowledge about practical electricity?

Well, for starters, just understanding the basic functioning of fuses, circuit breakers, and other safety devices can help you keep things running, and that certainly can be worth time and money in many ways.

What about keeping your refrigerator or freezer running?  What could that be worth?

It is easy to overload a circuit and trip a breaker.  Do you know which appliances are on which circuit breakers?  Do you know how to find out?

If you want to educate yourself about house electricity do you know some of the things you need to learn about?

Here is an incomplete list everyone should know about:

Fuses, Switches, Plugs, Receptacles, Loads, Ground, Circuit Breakers, Ground Fault Detectors, Wire Sizes, Lights, Fans, Appliances and their Voltages and Current requirements, and more.

So how could you learn about these things?

Obviously you can search on the Internet and find Youtube videos, or Wikipedia  entries, or other free sources.  But, this can be time consuming.  And, you want to be sure you are getting correct information.

A really great way to learn about practical electricity is the Killinger Course.

You might want to join the Electricity Friends Club (click on box in upper right) and read the Free Report which will give you a good idea of what you will learn from this course.

To learn how to work safely with electricity see Practical Electricity for Non-Electricians