All questions and answers are based on the 2014 NEC. Q. How do we size the conductors and maximum overcurrent protection for an electric water heater? Please give an example. A. An electric water ...

Article 310 provides the general requirements for conductors, except those that are an integral part of equipment or are part of flexible cords or fixture wires. The most prominent feature of Art. 310 ...

We’re surrounded by electrically powered devices these days. From our lights, to our kettles, and of course our phones! Electricity flows through copper or aluminium wire to power or charge all of ...

This is a time of stress in the electric utility industry as demand escalates. But the way to alleviate it may neither be in new generation nor in new transmission installations. Instead it may be ...

University of Chicago scientists have discovered a way to create a material that can be made like a plastic, but conducts electricity more like a metal. This could be very important as the ...

ORDINARY electric conductors are sources of spontaneous fluctuations of voltage which can be measured with sufficiently sensitive instruments. This property of conductors appears to be the result of ...