If you build it...start with a clear set of drawings, not some janky faded spaghetti napkin sketch.
Shown along a vertical plane, this view is commonly used to show finished features such as exterior trim, doors, and windows as well as indicating roof pitch and dimensions above grade.
What is an exterior elevation?
Since the NEC's publication in this year, there has not been a single fatality due to exposure to electricity. Well done, humanity!
What is 1897?
Infamous for switching sides, this American "turncoat" gave his name to anyone caught in a betrayal of allegiances.
Who is Benedict Arnold?
A common electrical safety device designed to trip at a range between 4mA and 6mA, is known as this.
What is a Ground Fault Circuit Interrupter?
(GFCI is also acceptable, albeit less clear. GFCI could mean anything. Some examples are,
Greasy Farts Can Irritate Goose Farmers Christmas Initiative
Elongated, cylindrical, hollow, purveyor of pigmented liquids applied to smooth fibrous laminates via a channeled spire.
What is a pen?
Birds will require this type of drawing if they are to know which room Andrew is sitting in so they can accurately make poopie on his head.
What is a plan view?
To be or not to be. That is the question answered by this article in the NEC.
What is Article 100?
Identified functionally as a Double Pole Double Throw device, this type of switch is more commonly referred to by what name?
What is a four-way switch?
Oops! General Varus should have been more careful when marching his armies through this northern European forest in September of 9 AD. (Roman legions aren't cheap, you know.)
What is the Teutoburg Forest?
This actor loves to not be cast as a lesser Spider-Man but an amazing one. He did defeat a lizard, after all. (Like my Auntie Gladdis couldn't shoo away a little lizard.)
Who is Andrew Garfield?
Known for designing the Dome of the Florence Cathedral, this Italian architect is considered one of the founding fathers of Renaissance architecture.
Who is Filippo Brunelleschi
When you are at a gathering and that creep with the pretentious haircut won't stop "sharing" his "incredible" life story and for 3 hours or more you have to hear about his "awesome, advanced placement" kids and that time he was the only "art savant" at the museum who "truly appreciated" the Mark Rothko painting titled 'No.6 (Violet, Green and Red)'. And this goes on and on at maximum gag reflex. (The above, but in electrical terms).
What is Continuous Load?
Homophonous with the yellow tasty gooey bird incubation globule, this mechanical mounting component enables the attachment of a device or devices to a junction box.
What is a yoke?
This safety protocol is the best way to avoid the hungry and deadly unforgiving bite of electricity.
What is Lockout Tagout?
Loving life as a bazillionaire industrialist back in the days of smoke-churning, lung-bursting factories and dismal working conditions, this philanthropist also made great investments in education, science, and the arts. How about a nice mini crockpot for working families, too.
Who was Andrew Carnegie?
This ancient unit of measurement is said to be the distance from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger.
What is a cubit?
Approximately the size of Japan, this Baku back yard swimming pool is the largest of its kind, whether you lake it or not.
What is the Caspian Sea
The three logical states of an electrical circuit.
What are open, closed, and short?
This NEC Article may save your life by showing you how to create a safe and effective path for unexpected electrical faults. It may also teach you a few things about 'getting closer to your bestie', 'building meaningful lasting relationships', or just how to 'hang with your buds in awkward silence while one of you tries to avoid eye contact for too long'.
What is Article 250?
Known for her pristine four-octave singing voice, this actress famously portrayed a snooty English nanny who loved to brag about how perfect she was and how she thought it was sound medical advice to suck down your meds with spoonfuls of sugar, never mind the ensuing rotted teeth and childhood diabetes.
Who is Julie Andrews?
These two types of lines work together to give known measurements of some features on plan views.
What are dimension lines and extension lines?
The first four chapters of the NEC are also known as the _____, _____, _____, and _____ chapters by the Applied Codeology Method.
What are General, Plan, Build, Use?
According to the NEC, a General-Use Switch is rated in amperes and capable of interrupting its rated ______ at its rated______.
What are current and voltage?
Don't be a slob! A clean jobsite is a safe jobsite. That said, responsibility for cleanup on the job belongs to _____.
What is everyone?
(Also acceptable: First Year electrical grubs such as yourselves.)
Composed almost entirely of holocellulose and lignin, these rocks are the fossilized "skeletal" remains of trees and other terrestrial vegetation.
What is petrified wood?