Electrical repairs can not only be costly, but they can also be dangerous, it is important to familiarize yourself with the terms and functions of a typical households electrical wiring make up.
The Cleveland home improvement experts at Neatnics have compiled a short list of terms and definitions that all homeowners should know about their electrical systems.
Most individuals have heard the terms amps, watts and volts, but how many remember what the exact definitions were from their high school physics class? Here’s the breakdown in a nutshell and you won’t be tested on this; however, you will need to remember it for safety reasons.
Amps, volts and watts are all used to describe the amount of electrical power that is being let into the house used on everyday appliances. Amps are described as the amount of electrical power that travel in a given second, the larger the wire carrying the electricity the higher the amperes. Voltage is the unit given the amount of pressure the electricity has developed much like water pressure from a showerhead; a typical household will have a voltage range of 115 and 125 for any given outlet. Watts is the unit that measures how much energy is being used each hour by a typical appliance.
If you know any two of these terms it is easy to figure out the third by just remembering this simple formula (Volts x Amps = Watts).
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