| This quick look up tool, filled with tables, charts, and checklists, takes the guess work out of almost any electrical design task or calculation. Indispensable for electrical engineers, designers, and technician's, the handbook provides immediate fingertip access to the fundamental information busy professionals need for everyday use in the field.
With its well-illustrated, systematic framework and ready-to-use tools, no other reference delivers this much time-saving data in such a convenient, highly usable format.
Compact, complete, and fully updated to reflect the 2002 National Electrical Code:
- National Electrical Code articles, tables, and data
- Service and distribution
- Grounding and ground fault protection
- Emergency and standby power systems
- Special systems
- Miscellaneous special applications
From the Preface
This second edition of the Electrical Engineer's Portable Handbook includes a number of significant updates and a few worthy additions and enhancements.
All National Electrical Code articles, tables, data, references and so on have been updated to the 2002 edition of the National Electrical Code in Chapter
2 and elsewhere where they occur. Two major changes throughout the latest edition of the National Electrical Code are the system of nomenclature/paragraphing hierarchy and the metrification of units as primary in tables and data.
Chapter 3 contains updated motor circuit feeder schedules, a transformer primary and secondary feeder schedule and a new table of three-phase, three-wire and four-wire plus ground feeder schedules sized to the overcurrent protection rating. These should prove to be time-saving tools.
The grounding electrode system (main service grounding detail) diagram in Chapter 4 has been updated and an introductory overview of a dissipation array
system (DAS) for lightning protection has been added. This is an emerging technology application of a long-known theory that is gaining popularity in some critical installations.
Telecommunications-structured cabling systems information in Chapter 8 has been completely replaced with the latest BICSI standards (including tables,
diagrams and illustrations). An introductory overview to blown optical fiber technology (BOFT) provides insight into this very interesting,
cost-competitive and extremely flexible optical fiber technology. It is particularly amenable to renovation/retrofit applications because of its flexibility and avoids initial capitalization for installing future capacity in new construction.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments; Credits; Preface to the Second Edition; Introduction: How to Use this Book; Chapter 1: General Information; Chapter 2: National Electrical Code (NEC) Articles, Tables, and Data; Chapter 3: Services and Distribution; Chapter 4: Grounding and Ground Fault Protection; Chapter 5: Emergency and Standby Power Systems; Chapter 6: Lighting; Chapter 7: Special Systems; Chapter 8: Miscellaneous Special Applications; Index. |
