Tag: Pulling Wire

Pull your home run power wire to an easy to access electrical box, and make it simple for the next electrician who may have to troubleshoot your work.

How circuit numbers work in a three-phase and single-phase panel, and how to share a neutral with different phases safely.

Electricians use higher voltages to reduce current, which in turn allows for smaller wires. This saves money, and is much easier to install and maintain!

It's VERY important you are aware of the rules before drilling into structural support beam. The best advice is to get written approval from your jobsite's structural engineer.

An apprentice loop is when you pull a wire, and it somehow gets looped around a stud or ceiling joist, making the wire stick out of the wall, but somehow the wire went back into the wall or ceiling, continued it's normal route, and was maybe even tied into an electrical box! Even Journeymen make…

If someone ever asks you to go get the wire stretcher tool, sadly, a wire stretcher does not exist. This is a funny joke electrician’s say to someone if the wire was cut too short.

Learn how to rough-in as a residential and commercial electrician by covering topics such as splicing wires, bending pipe/emt, stripping wires, and looking at electrical prints.