American Electricians' Handbook
The Best Source for Essential Info on Designing, Installing, Operating and Maintaining Electrical Systems & Equipment

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THE "ELECTRICIANS’ BIBLE" SINCE 1913

By Wilford Summers 
Terrell Croft 

Filled with practical advice and facts, the American Electricians’ Handbook is the best single source for essential information on designing, installing, operating, and maintaining electrical systems and equipment. For over 85 years, there has been no better or more trusted way to keep up with the latest developments in the electrical field.

Revised and updated in compliance with the most recent National Electrical Code and National Electrical Safety Code, as well as the current standards of NEMA the American National Standards Institute, and the Underwriters Laboratories, this one-stop reference enables you to tackle even the most complex job with total confidence. Using the clear language and diagrams that have made the Handbook the industry’s definitive resource, the expanded Fourteenth Edition brings you the latest data on:

• Advances in fiber optic cables, grounding, arc-fault circuit interrupter devices, and transient voltage surge suppressors
• The National Electrical Code, the National Electrical Safety Code, and NEMA motor and generator standards
• High-efficiency motors and electronic control of motors
• Circuits and circuit calculations, transformers, wiring tables, lamp application tables, and much more

Division 1: FUNDAMENTALS
Chapter 1: Useful Tables
Chapter 2: Conversion Factors
Chapter 3: Graphical Electrical Symbols
Chapter 4: Principles of Electricity and Magnetism: Units
Chapter 5: Measuring, Testing, and Instruments
Harmonics

Division 2 PROPERTIES AND SPLICING OF CONDUCTORS
Chapter 6: Electrical Conducting Wires and Cables
Chapter 7: Cable Joints and Terminal Connections
Chapter 8: Aluminum-Building-Wire Installation Practices
Chapter 9: Termination and Splice Kits

Division 3 CIRCUITS AND CIRCUIT CALCULATIONS
Chapter 10: Types of Circuits
Chapter 11: Electrical Systems
Chapter 12: Circuit Calculations

Division 4 GENERAL ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT AND BATTERIES
Chapter 13: Introduction
Chapter 14: Switches
Chapter 15: Installation of Switches
Chapter 16: Protective Devices
Chapter 17: Switchboards and Switchgear
Chapter 18: Panelboards
Chapter 19: General Wiring Materials and Devices
Chapter 20: Power Capacitors
Chapter 21: Batteries: General
Chapter 22: Primary Batteries
Chapter 23: Storage Batteries: General
Chapter 24: Lead-Acid Storage Batteries
Chapter 25: Nickel-Iron-Alkaline Batteries
Chapter 26: Nickel-Cadmium Batteries
Chapter 27: Installation of Storage Batteries
Chapter 28: General Construction Materials

Division 5 TRANSFORMERS
Chapter 29: Construction, Types, and Characteristics
Chapter 30: Connections: Polarity
Chapter 31: Single-Phase Connections
Chapter 32: Two-Phase Connections
Chapter 33: Three-Phase Connections
Chapter 34: Connections for Three-Phase Transformers
Chapter 35: Parallel Operation
Chapter 36: Connections and Applications of Autotransformers
Chapter 37: Installation, Care, and Operation
Chapter 38: Provisions for Different Types of Transformers
Chapter 39: Provisions for Transformer Vaults
The Noise Problem
Chapter 40: Pole and Platform Mounting
Chapter 41: Saturable-Core Reactor

Division 6 SOLID-STATE DEVICES AND CIRCUITS
Chapter 42: Fundamentals of Electronics
Chapter 43: Discrete Solid-State Components
Chapter 44: Integrated Circuits
Chapter 45: Integrated-Circuit Logic Functions
Microcomputers
Chapter 46: Electronic Memories

Division 7 GENERATORS AND MOTORS
Chapter 47: Principles, Characteristics and Management of DC Generators (Dynamos)
Chapter 48: Principles, Characteristics, and Management of AC Generators (Alternators)
Chapter 49: Principles, Characteristics, and Management of Electric Motors
Chapter 50: Direct-Current Motors
Chapter 51: Alternating-Current Motors
Chapter 52: Conversion Equipment
Chapter 53: Troubles of AC Motors and Generators: Their Localization and Correction
Chapter 54: Care of Motors
Chapter 55: Control Equipment for Motors
Chapter 56: Motor Drives and Application
Chapter 57: Motor Circuits
Chapter 58: Control Circuits
Chapter 59: Air-Conditioning and Refrigerating Equipment
Chapter 60: Engine- and Gas-Turbine Generators

Division 8 OUTSIDE DISTRIBUTION
Chapter 61: Pole Lines: General, Construction, and Equipment
Chapter 62: Pole-Line Construction
Chapter 63: Pole-Line Guying
Chapter 64: Underground Wiring
Chapter 65: Grounding of Systems

Division 9 INTERIOR WIRING
Chapter 66: General
Chapter 67: Open Wiring On Insulators
Chapter 68: Concealed Knob-and-Tube Wiring
Chapter 69: Rigid-Metal-Conduit and Intermediate-Metal-Conduit Wiring
Chapter 70: Interior or Aboveground Wiring with Rigid Nonmetallic Conduit
Chapter 71: Flexible-Metal-Conduit Wiring
Chapter 72: fLiquidtight Flexible-Metal-Conduit Wiring
Chapter 73: Metal-Clad–Cable Wiring: Types AC and MC
Chapter 73: Surface-Raceway Wiring
Chapter 74: Electrical-Metallic-Tubing Wiring
Chapter 75: Nonmetallic-Sheathed–Cable Wiring
Chapter 76: Mineral-Insulated Metal-Sheathed–Cable Wiring
Chapter 77: Medium-Voltage–Cable Wiring
Chapter 78: Underground-Feeder and Branch-Circuit–Cable Wiring
Chapter 79: Interior Wiring with Service-Entrance Cable
Chapter 80: Underfloor-Raceway Wiring
Chapter 81: Wireway Wiring
Chapter 82: Busway Wiring
Chapter 83: Cellular-Metal-Floor–Raceway Wiring
Chapter 84: Cellular-Concrete-Floor–Raceway Wiring
Chapter 85: Wiring with Multioutlet Assemblies
Chapter 86: Cablebus Wiring
Chapter 87: Cable Trays
Chapter 88: General Requirements for Wiring Installations
Chapter 89: Crane Wiring
Chapter 90: Wiring for Circuits of Over 600 Volts
Chapter 91: Wiring for Circuits of Less Than 50 Volts
Chapter 92: Wiring for Hazardous Locations
Chapter 93: Installation of Appliances
Chapter 94: Electric Comfort Conditioning
Chapter 95: Wiring for Electric Signs and Outline Lighting
Chapter 96: Remote-Control, Signaling, and Power-Limited Circuits
Chapter 97: Wiring for Special Occupancies
Chapter 98: Design of Interior-Wiring Installations
Chapter 99: Wiring for Residential Outdoor Lighting
Chapter 100: Wiring for Commercial and Industrial Occupancies
Chapter 101: Farm Wiring

Division 10 ELECTRIC LIGHTING
Chapter 102: Principles and Units
Chapter 103: Electric-Light Sources
Chapter 104: Incandescent (Filament) Lamps
Chapter 105: Fluorescent Lamps
Chapter 106: Gaseous-Discharge Lamps
Chapter 107: Neon Lamps
Chapter 108: Ultraviolet-Light Sources
Chapter 109: Infrared Heating Lamps
Chapter 110: Luminaires
Chapter 111: Principles of Lighting-Installation Design
Chapter 112: Tables for Interior Illumination Design
Chapter 113: Interior-Lighting Suggestions
Chapter 114: Heat with Light for Building Spaces
Chapter 115: Street Lighting
Chapter 116: Floodlighting

Division 11 OPTICAL FIBER
Chapter 117: General
Chapter 118: Cabling
Chapter 119: Connectors
Chapter 120: Splices
Chapter 121: Testing
Chapter 122: Basic Terminology
Chapter 123: Light Sources
Chapter 124: Types of Optical Fibers
Chapter 125: Breakout Kits
Chapter 126: Safety
Chapter 127: Non-Communication Applications

Division 12 WIRING AND DESIGN TABLES
Chapter 128: Standard Sizes of Lamps for General Illumination, in Watts
Chapter 129: Demand Factors and Data for Determining Minimum Loads
Chapter 130: Full-Load Currents of Motors
Chapter 131: Capacitor Ratings for Use with Three-Phase 60-Hz Motors
Chapter 132: Ampacities of Conductors
Chapter 133: Ampacity of Flexible Cords and Cables
Chapter 134: Ampacity of Fixture Wires
Chapter 135: Ampacity of Aluminum Cable, Steel-Reinforced
Chapter 136: Ampacity of Parkway Cables Buried Directly in Ground
Chapter 137: Number of Conductors in Conduit and Dimensions
Chapter 138: Compact Aluminum Wire and Dimensions
Chapter 139: Switches-Termination Spac
Chapter 140: Switch-Gutter and Termination Space
Chapter 141: Enclosed Switch Wiring Space
Chapter 142: Elevation of Unguarded Parts above
Chapter 143: Working Space
Chapter 144: Ordinary Ratings of Overload Protective Devices, in Amperes
Chapter 145: Nonrenewable Cartridge Fuses
Chapter 146: Ratings and Number of Overload Protective Devices
Chapter 147: Motor Code Letters and Locked-Rotor Kilovolt-Amperes
Chapter 148: Maximum Ratings for Motor Branch-Circuit Protection
Chapter 149: Conversion Table of Single-Phase Locked Rotor Currents
Chapter 150: Conversion Table of Polyphase Design B, C, D, and E Maximum Locked Rotor
Chapter 151: Currents
Chapter 152: Horsepower Ratings of Fused Switches
Chapter 153: Minimum Branch-Circuit Sizes for Motors
Chapter 154: Maximum Allowable Voltage Drop
Chapter 155: Graph for Computing Copper-Conductor
Chapter 156: Sizes According to Voltage Drop
Chapter 157: Data for Computing Voltage Drop
Chapter 158: Metric Practice
Index

Author Biography:

WILFORD SUMMERS (Colorado Springs, CO) is an electrical consultant and former Executive Director of the International Association of Electrical Inspectors.

TERRELL CROFT (deceased)

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