EMT
PVC
Flexible Raceways
Potpourri
Electrical Icons
100

The largest trade size for EMT is .....

4 Inch

100

This volatile chemical compound recently made the news in a dangerous train derailment in Eastern Ohio. is the primary input for the creation of PVC Conduit. 

Vinyl Chloride 

100

This flexible raceway is often used to connect transformers and panels together in NEMA 1 environments.

Aluminum Flex Conduit

100

What color is toilet paper in France?

Pink - often dyed to make it more attractive for the public. 

100

This inventor / businessman has a record 1100 patents to his name.

Thomas Edison

200

EMT fittings for dry locations are of this type.

Set Screw

200

This variety of PVC conduit is sometimes referred to as "Thin Wall"

Schedule 40 PVC
200

This flexible conduit is most often used in wet or damp locations to connect power from disconnects to equipment.  It can also be used as an equipment grounding conductor in circuits up to 30amps.

LT - Liquidtite Flexible Metallic Conduit / Also known as Sealtite

200

What is the total number of dots on a pair of dice?

42

200

This city hosted Nikola Telsa's personal laboratory for several years.  It's where Tesla conducted low air pressure experiments of wireless power transmission due to the high conductivity of high altitude.

Colorado Springs, CO

300

EMT must be supported at intervals not to exceed how many feet?

10 feet

300

Because PVC has no metal, this electrical characteristic is less than when conductors are installed in metallic conduit.

Voltage Drop

300

This is the maximum distance that Flexible raceways maybe strapped from an outlet box or equipment connection.

12 inches - 1 foot

300

Which bird has the largest wing span?

Albatross

300

George Westinghouse demonstrated a fully integrated AC electrical system to the American public at the this large event in 1893.

Chicago World's Fair
400

This many feet of 1/2 EMT Conduit are in a bundle

100 feet

400

Because PVC is subject to changing in size due to temperature differences, electricians must install this fitting to prevent pipe from failing.

Expansion fitting

400

This is the smallest trade size available for flexible conduits.

3/8 inch

400

This was America's first Irish Catholic President.

John F Kennedy

400

Widely considered the most prolific scientific discoverers in history, this English man laid the foundations for all future electrical progress with his work in the early 1800's.  He is credited with the discoveries of Electromagnetism, Electrical Induction, and Electrolysis. But you probably know him for his invention that is used today to protect electrical equipment from electromagnetic fields.

Michael Faraday

500

This is the NEC Article that covers EMT

NEC Art 358

500

This is the largest trade size of Poly Vinyl Conduit.

6" Inch

500

This NEC Article covers Liquidtite Flexible Nonmetallic conduit installations.

NEC Art 356

500

This is America's First National Park.

Yellowstone - Wyoming

500

This Inventor is widely credited with the invention of the radio - but was sued by Nikola Tesla for patent infringement for this.   He also was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1909 for this invention.

Guglielmo Marconi