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    Electricity - Your Common Sense Guide
    Electricity - Your Common Sense Guide
    Electricity - Your Common Sense Guide
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    Electricity - Your Common Sense Guide

    By Nick Ilich

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    At last, a book that explains electricity in a very simple and easy way for everyone to understand. You will learn the basics of electricity, power to your home, receptacles, neutral and grounding, extension cord "Do's" and "Don'ts" and electrical shock.The book ends with safety tips and suggestions for you to stay safe and be shock free.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHillcrest Media Group
    Release dateAug 20, 2015
    ISBN9781634139694
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      Easy to read and good overview. The author wrote it in layman's terms.
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      very basic and insightful learned somethings that I had often pondered in regards to the receptacle.

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    Electricity - Your Common Sense Guide - Nick Ilich

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    CHAPTER 1

    Our Dependency on Electricity

    It’s hard to believe but it was only a little over 130 years ago (early 1880’s) that electricity was made available to the general public in a limited distribution. Look at where we are today! And the thing is that you don’t realize how essential or fundamental electricity is to your everyday life.

    We deal with electricity on a daily basis. Despite its great importance in our daily lives, few of us probably stop to think what life would be like without electricity. Like air and water, we tend to take electricity for granted. But we use electricity to do so many jobs for us every day: getting the coffee machine going, making our toast, cooking our food, making the alarm go off, turning on the lights, heating and cooling our homes, and powering our computers and televisions.

    Before electricity was available to us, homes were lit with either kerosene lamps or candles, food was cooled in iceboxes, rooms were warmed by wood-burning or coal-burning stoves, clothes were washed by hand instead of using washing machines, a horse and buggy were the main means of transportation instead of cars, people depended on books, newspapers, and outdoor activities to inform and entertain themselves instead of radio, television and computer games.

    Our comfort zone depends on electricity on a daily basis. We don’t realize how much until there is a major power outage. The following examples show our helplessness during a major power outage:

    Your home ceases to function. You arrive home and push the remote to open the garage door. Nothing happens. You park in the driveway and go to the front door. You open the front door and flip the light switch and nothing happens. You use your cell phone as a light source as you go to the kitchen. You flip the light switch by natural reflex and nothing happens. You go to the refrigerator and open it only to realize that the power was out there too. You look at the cell phone and the battery is getting low . So you decide to put it on the charger – only to be reminded that the power is still off. You sit down, thinking that at least your laptop has a decent battery life for you to go online. With the screen starting up, you realize that there was no way you could go online even with your self-sufficient battery powered laptop-the router would not work without electricity. Even then, your laptop would eventually need to be recharged.

    You are hungry so you put some food in the microwave and hit the start button but nothing happens. You want some coffee so you start the coffee machine and nothing happens.

    It’s cold outside so you turn the heat on but nothing happens.

    At work, your computer shuts down. You don’t have access to your e-mail or the World Wide Web. You are basically helpless and can no longer work until the power comes back on.

    Our traffic and street lights stop working. Nonworking traffic lights cause major chaos in large cities as traffic would grind to a halt. It would be worse at night with the street lights not working.

    Most forms of our transportation system would come to a complete stop. Light rapid transit, trains and electrified buses would not operate.

    We are an electrical gadget oriented society and it is getting worse every day. Our dependency on electricity will only get worse.

    But what do we really know about electricity? Most people do not understand the simple basics about electricity and this is where the danger lies.

    If you don’t understand something that occurs at our fingertips in our

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