Parts
Services
PPE/Safety
Terms
Equipment/Tools
100

An electrical outlet.

What is Receptacle?

100

The renovation of your old lighting fixtures and/or bulbs that improves the lighting output all while emitting less heat and saving energy.

What is Lighting Retrofit?

100

Part of the Southwest uniform and is a safety point that should be worn at all times in case you drop something.

What is steel toed boots?

100

A set of switches, sockets, or other electrical devices grouped together.

What is gang?

100

A tool primarily used for making round holes or driving fasteners.

What is Power Drill?

200

A short threaded pipe, placed between boxes, enclosures, etc. A means for extending connections.

What is a nipple?

200

Routine equipment and systems inspections used to avoid problems in equipment.

What is PMI?

200

To be worn when working on 277-480V live electrical equipment.

What is Hot Suit?

200

A temperature reading used to rate the color of light bulbs.

What is Kelvin?

200

A type of slip-joint pliers.

What is channel locks or tongue-and-grove?

300

A support or brace.

What is strut?

300

To plan and implement the electrical layout for a new location.

What is Factory Relocation?

300

When drilling a hole and particles are flying out.

What is safety glasses?

300

A stable subatomic particle with a charge of negative electricity, found in all atoms and acting as the primary carrier of electricity in solids.

What is electron?

300

Equipment that makes work at height or hard to reach areas practical.

What is Man-Lift?

400

A thin plate with a hole that is normally used to distribute the load of a threaded fastener.

What is washer?

400

To produce designs and layouts of power systems and electrical equipment that are safe and cost-effective.

What is engineering?

400

Working in a boom lift.

What is hardhat, safety glasses, and safety harness?

400

An association that sets standards for electrical equipment in the US.

What is National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA)?

400

Cutting pliers.

What is Dykes?

500

Composed of a bundle of small-gauge copper strands to make a larger conductor.

What is Stranded Wire?

500

The use of control systems, such as computers or robots, and information technologies for handling different processes and machinery in an industry to replace a human being.

What is Industrial Automation?

500

The process of working on or around equipment that could pose a hazard if it were to operate, each electrician shall effectively isolate the equipment from its power source.

What is Lock-Out/Tag-Out Procedure?

500

The organization that sets standards and tests equipment and appliances for compliance.

What is Underwriter's Lab (UL)?

500

An instrument used for measuring electrical potential difference between two points in an electric circuit.

What is voltmeter?