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The overhead service conductor from the last pole or other aerial support to and including the splices, if any, connecting to the service entrance conductors at the building or other structure.
Service drop
Service equipment
Service lateral
Service
The necessary equipment, usually consisting of a circuit breaker or switch and fuses, and their accessories, located near the point of entrance of supply conductors to a building.
Service equipment
Service drop
Service lateral
Service
A combination of elevation rod and brace, or footing placed on upper portions of structures, together with tip or point of used.
Air terminal
Fixture
Fitting
Receptacle
An integral, separate or self-contained unit which may contain one or more bulbs or fluorescent tubes.
Fixture
Air terminal
Fitting
Receptacle
An accessory such as a locknut, bushing, or other part of a wiring system that is intended to perform a mechanical rather than an electrical function.
Fitting
Fixture
Receptacle
Raceway
A contact device installed at the outlet for the connection of a single attachment plug.
Receptacle
Fixture
Fitting
Bus
An enclosed channel designed expressly for holding wires, cables, or bus bars, with additional functions as permitted in the PEC.
Raceway
Fixture
Fitting
Busway
That one equipment shall be “_______” of another equipment, one of the equipment specified shall be visible and not more than 15 m distant from the other.
in sight from
readily accessible
exposed
concealed
Any current in excess of the rated current of equipment or the ampacity of a conductor. It may result from overload, short circuit, or ground fault.
Overcurrent
Overload
Short circuit
Flashover
Operation of equipment in excess of normal, full load rating, or of a conductor in excess of rated ampacity which, when it persists for a sufficient length of time, would cause damage or dangerous overheating.
Overload
Overcurrent
Short circuit
Flashover
The maximum load consumed or produce by a unit or group of units in a stated period of time.
Peak load
Maximum demand
Connected load
Continuous load
The ratio of the maximum demand of a system, or part of a system, to the total connected load of a system or the part of the system under consideration.
Demand factor
Power factor
Peak factor
Ampacity
Operation for alternate intervals of (1) load and no load; or (2) load and rest; or (3) load, no load and rest.
Intermittent duty
Continuous duty
Interrupting rating
Overload
The current in amperes a conductor can carry continuously under the conditions of use without exceeding its temperature rating.
Ampacity
Interrupting rating
Maximum demand
Peak load
A _______ is a disruptive discharge through insulation.
breakdown
flashover
short circuit
overload
An approved, completely assembled metal troughing and fitting therefore, containing bare conductors intended for use as feeders, the conductors being suitably supported on insulators.
Busway
Raceway
Wireway
Hoistway
Rendered inaccessible by the structure or finish of the building. Wires in concealed, even though they may become accessible by withdrawing them.
Concealed
Covered
Exposed
Inaccessible
A device or group of devices that serves to govern, in some predetermined manner, the electric power to the apparatus to which it is connected.
Controller
Circuit breakers
Switchboard
Switchgear
So constructed or protected that successful operation is not interfered with when falling drops of liquid or solid particles strike the enclosure at any angle from 0 to 15 degrees from the downward vertical unless otherwise specified.
Drip-proof
Dustproof
Dusttight
Concealed
A circuit in which one conductor or point (usually the neutral conductor or neutral point of transformer or generator windings) is intentionally grounded, either solidly or through a grounding device.
Grounded circuit
Branch circuit
Connected load
Service equipment
A tension member usually galvanized wire, having one end secured to a fixed object on the ground and the end attached to a pole, cross arm or other structural part which it supports.
Guy
Lateral conductor
Service drop
Service lateral
A building or portion of a building in which one or more self-propelled vehicles carrying volatile flammable liquid for fuel or power are kept for use, sale, storage, rental, repair, exhibition, or demonstrating purpose.
Garage
Dwelling unit
Warehouse
Control center
A wire or cable extending sideways or at an angle to the general direction of the line that service wires either overhead or underground that short branches extended on poles at approximate right angles to the lines are also known as laterals.
Lateral conductor
Guy
Service drop
Air terminal
A general term including material, fittings, devices appliances, fixtures, apparatus, and the like used a part of, or in connection with, an electrical installation.
Equipment
Connected load
Appliance
Branch circuit
The underground service conductors between the street main and the first point of connection to the service-entrance conductors in a terminal box or meter or other enclosure with adequate space, inside or outside the building wall.
Service lateral
Service drop
Service conductors
Service equipment
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