Product Description: Book by Traister, John E.

Explains how to read and interpret blueprints and discusses the use of blueprints in electrical, woodworking, construction, and plumbing projects

Product Description: How to read and understand construction documents, blueprints, and schedules. Includes layouts of structural, mechanical, HVAC and electrical drawings. Shows how to interpret sectional views, follow diagrams and schematics, and covers common problems with construction specifications...read more

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This reference provides a resource of up-to-date information for anyone concerned with electric and electronic motor controls, covering theory and design, as well as practical applications. The author takes readers step by step through every conceivable application for controlling motors in residential, commercial and industrial installations. There is detailed coverage of starting and stopping motors, overload protection, overcurrent protection, reversing, changing speed, jogging, plugging and sequence control. This edition includes a new chapter on the use of solid-state devices.

Product Description: This volume in Wiley's Series of Practical Construction Guides addresses important aspects of electrical contracting, from estimating the job to completing the project. Emphasis is practical, covering tools and equipment, development and use of wiring diagrams, hiring qualified electrical workers, permits and notices, computer-assisted estimating, installation procedures, operating costs and profit, and obtaining final payments...read more

Product Description: A revision of the highly popular guide to the design and installation of security and fire alarm systems in residential, commercial and industrial buildings. The book covers how-to methods for equipment selection, system design, cost estimating, system installation, and troubleshooting...read more

Product Description: Contents: Component Selection; Space Planning and Interface; Specifying Material for Substrates; The SMT Assembly Process; Contact Geometry for SMT Components; Design Guidelines; Artwork Generation. Appendixes. This book is a practical, engineering-level guide to designing with surface mounting technology and the manufacturing processes involved...read more

Product Description: Book by Traister, John E

If you're getting ready to take the electrician's exam and drowning in pages of tables, rules and exceptions, here's the book you need! It's based on actual exam questions taken from tests administered across the U.S. over the last few years. Here you have almost a thousand multiple-choice questions -- exactly the type of questions that will be on your exam. The correct answer is printed just below the question.Each chapter begins with a basic explanation of a topic. Then you get dozens of questions on that subject to test your understanding. Every topic is covered clearly and thoroughly. When you can answer all the questions in this exam book, taking the actual test on exam day should be a breeze!If you haven't applied to take the exam yet, one section of this book explains how to get your license: where to get the application forms, how to study, and just what to expect on examination day. A complete sample electrician's exam and answer sheet are provided so you can simulate exam conditions in your own home.

Product Description: If you're getting ready to take the electrician's exam and drowning in pages of tables, rules, and exceptions, here's the book you need.You'll find almost a thousand multiple-choice questions to study, based on actual tests administered over the last few years in states and counties across the U...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: If you're getting ready to take the electrician's exam and drowning in pages of tables, rules, and exceptions, here's the book you need.You'll find almost a thousand multiple-choice questions to study, based on actual tests administered over the last few years in states and counties across the U...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Need help in passing the apprentice, journeyman, or master electrician's exam? This is a book of questions and answers based on actual electrician's exams over the last few years. Almost a thousand multiple-choice questions -- exactly the type you'll find on the exam -- cover every area of electrical installation: electrical drawings, services and systems, transformers, capacitors, distribution equipment, branch circuits, feeders, calculations, measuring and testing, and more...read more

Product Description: Electrical measuring and testing procedures are crucial in the installation and maintenance of electrical systems of all types in commercial and facilities. This new, completely updated edition of The Electrician's Troubleshooting Pocket Guide is an invaluable resource for electricians using portable meteres to test, maintain, and troubleshoot all types of electrical equipment and systems...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Recent years have witnessed an explosion of knowledge lea- ding to a molecular understanding of the mechanisms of ac- tion of calcium on excitation and contraction coupling and its role in the regulation of contractility. This book highlights the most recent progress as well as providing a historial perspective of the field. It presents a concise and comprehensive overview of our current knowledge regar- ding calcium channels and regulatory proteins as well as in- tracellular calcium handling and the mechanisms underlying the activation of contractile proteins. It also describes how these basic mechanisms have been adapted in various types of muscle, especially in cardiac and smooth muscle.