{"id":220,"date":"2008-03-22T12:45:22","date_gmt":"2008-03-22T20:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/?p=220"},"modified":"2008-03-22T12:45:22","modified_gmt":"2008-03-22T20:45:22","slug":"book-review-basic-wiring-pro-tips-and-simple-steps-by-stanley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/?p=220","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: &#8220;Basic Wiring: Pro Tips and Simple Steps&#8221; by Stanley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While browsing through the home improvement section of the library, I picked up this book. As an electrical engineering, electrical wiring should not be a problem for me. But this book taught me a few things:<\/p>\n<p>1. Various tools used to splice wires, cut and crimp cables, connecting garden lights and lamps.<br \/>\n2. How to drop a wire behind the drywall using a weight and then use a hook to connect the wire and then pick up the wire. This created the minimal amount of damage for your drywall.<br \/>\n3. Checking for correct grounding and connection of the &#8220;hot&#8221; wire using a simple plug that you can buy from Amazon.com.<br \/>\n4. The various kinds of wires\/cables: Old fashioned fabric-sheathed cable, armored MC and BX (no ground), underground feed (UF), NM (Non-metalic) round profile and flat-profile.<\/p>\n<p><a href='https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/basic-wiring.jpg' title='basic-wiring.jpg'><img src='https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/basic-wiring.thumbnail.jpg' alt='basic-wiring.jpg' \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While browsing through the home improvement section of the library, I picked up this book. As an electrical engineering, electrical wiring should not be a problem for me. But this book taught me a few things: 1. Various tools used to splice wires, cut and crimp cables, connecting garden lights and lamps. 2. How to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/?p=220\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Book Review: &#8220;Basic Wiring: Pro Tips and Simple Steps&#8221; by Stanley<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}