Q:Ihave a 19 gallon, electric, 120v water heater. Can I splice the two wires in it to an electrical cord that I can plug into a normal wall outlet? If so, can you tell me how, or direct me to a website which explains the process?

120v Water Heater

Q:I am adding three to four new recepticles in my basement. This will be a new series comming from the box. I will be using a 20amp breaker and 12 gauge wire. I Know how to wire one recepticle, but not sure if i should pigtail the white and black wires from the first recepticle and then continue to every other recepticle in the same mannner. there will be no swithces etc. and of course i want it to be in parallel.

Good choice of wire gauge and breaker for 4 outlets. Run wires as you stated to the first outlet using the bottom screws. Start the run for the next outlet using the top screws and do the same at every box. Do not use the convenient stick-in connections, use the screws for better continuity and voltage transfer. Last but not least, make sure the ground is firmly connected to each outlet and to the ground bar of the breaker box. Buy a lighted plug-in circuit tester at the hardware store and check the continuity of every outlet after wiring. If you have the polarity off or a ground not connected, it will tell you very quickly. They are only a few bucks and well worth it for troubleshooting circuits.

Q:explain?thank you veeery much :)

No, not if that isn't what you want. Energy is lost to the heat instead of going to the motor or whatever you want the power for.

Q:Wire yellow and green, respectively, that line of fire or zero line

Red, yellow, green is the line of fire, blue is zero line, yellow and green is ground

Q:can we replaced it with the normal plastic insulated wire?

Not a good idea. The cloth insulation nomex or kevlar and is for heat resistance. Without that you are likely to melt the wires at the point where they go into the appliance.

Q:I have a house built in 1960 that has what I think is original wiring. It is non-metallic sheathed cable. There are some places (underneath old leaks in the roof) where the outer plastic coating has disintegrated. Is this safe? Is there anything I can do to make it safer?

Hello, Homes that were built in this era used aluminum wire that was protected with a paper and fibre wrap. The wiring was safe for that era but is no longer used due to the possibility of fire. These lines can easily get overloaded with older appliances. All new construction is using copper wire with coatings that are compliant with new building codes. What you can do: Have all exposed wiring replaced by a licensed electrician. Call an electrician in to see the existing wiring and what is the best course of action required to make your home safer. Work of this nature can be costly due to repairs to your walls when installing new wires and outlets. Ask the electrician to break down any quotation into a scope of work estimate. A scope of work estimate will outline exactly what the electricians work will include and also what work is to be done by others (such as drywall repair and painting). Look in your Yellow Pages directory for electricians that specialize in this type of repair. You can also call the Hydro company, that provides your home with electricity, for inspections and help. Good luck, I hope this helps you.

Q:I have a 4-bulb light fixture in the bathroom that stopped working today. The other set of lights and fan still work. Things I have tried so far:1. I tried replacing the bulbs and it still does not work.2. I have reset the GFCI switch.3. I have reset the bathroom circuit breaker as well.I opened up the light switch (the panel has two switches for two sets of lights) and can't tell if anything is wrong. I also looked at the light fixture (it's open from above) and noticed that it has two wires going in from the wall, a brown and black wire. I also wanted to test that line if possible. If the line is working, then I guess the light fixture is bad. But how do I test the line?

The best way to test is with a meter. Lacking that you can take the wires off the switch and short them together to see if the light turns on (this is what the switch does when you turn it on. There is probably a bare ground wire attached to the switch, don't short it to either of the other two wires on the switch. You can buy a meter at hardware stores for very little money to test the lines though and I would suggest that.

Q:Does an air conditioner require several square wires? How many air conditioning is a tile?

It is best to have a routing with a switch bar, it will be cheaper to recommend a lot of routing with Lei Branch NR268 bars If you feel expensive, you can buy NR256 to change the line on the use of ordinary 5 lines can be, the distance should not be long Right now

Q:Wire in the blue line, green yellow line, gray line on behalf of what does this mean?

AV cable can be connected to the set-top box is not only two-way port? If the signal is not good to persuade you to buy a adapter,

Q:Hello! I have two exact same porch lights. I was moving one lamp to test location #2 (the other light turned out to be bad, just wanted to make sure power was ok) and I thought I wrote down which wires from the wall (outside on condo patio) went into the wires on the lamp but now I see I have FOUR wires coming from the walland only three for the lamp.I seem to have two white wires, or at least I cannot see any color outside of the grey paint from when the building was painted. The third is black and the last is green and I can see the color of those wires and I am sure they were connected to the ground and the power. Now, finally my question.do those two white wired go together with the white wire from the lamp? Please email me if you need further explanation or a picture of the wiring, Thank you so much for your help! I thought I had my bases covered but I dropped the ball!!

The 2 white wires go together and connect to the white wire on the light fixture, the black to the black and the green to ground