Troubleshooting is the following of fault system step by step in serial form, in order to identify fault area. This will give possible solution to the problem. During this work, do not assumed make sure you did not jump any place for good and successiful troubleshooting.
Trouble shooting is the following steps by steps in carry out maintenance and repairs in an orderly manner with the aim to rectify the fault.
Safety first: always make sure, you put safety
first, such as your ladder, hand gloves, safety boot clothes and nature of environment.
Electricity is our servant; if we adhere strictly with roles and regulation
governing it remembers it can be your big enemy, if you neglect its safety
precaution.
My dear reader, I want to give you an instant, who ever neglect safety
in working with electricity, he will end
of injuring himself, you know there some
people if they touch live conductor, they will not receive electric shock one,
day some body clamp low voltage pole during rainfall he did not wear hang loves
boot or safety clothes. during his work
on pole, he was electrocuted, and pull down
death. Safety always.
One of the safety tips, switch off the power supply, hold fuse and
keys of the main panel room. Doing this settle your mind to conduct your
trouble shooting safety .
Main services panel : this is the heart of electrical system in a
building, it consist of circuit breakers ,E.L.C.B, Cutout and Residual current
device (RCD)all with the aim of protection. This make tracing
of fall it in house hold wiring become easy. if ant part of the house
goes off or having fall it, the first stage to check is main service panel, you
will observe which circuit breakers goes off then you trace the section
and rectify the problem, may be within short possible time.
During water flood in a building make sure you switch off main switch
control of the building for safety: since each circuit in the building was
assign with circuit breaker for control
and delivering power to it, if any
section of building trip off you will directly go to that circuit breaker, in
this case you must make label for each
assign circuit breaker, this will be trouble shooting easy. make sure
assign correct size of fuse dedicated circuit such as furnace, washing machine
because they consume high voltage to operate.
Electrical wire types electrical wire comes in different size and
manufacture from different materials you must be careful in selecting wire for
installation. the best wire was copper, it has ability to stand with high heat and supply steadily
current to home appliances, it is advisable to purchase it in my local area,
you can patronize Nocaco ( Kaduna)or Junju electric wire are among the tops pure copper cable that use
standard gauge. Somebody can say pure copper is expensive yes, is true but you
will enjoy your electrical wiring system forever. I think is better than to
burn your building by using substandard cable.
In electrical work make sure you follow standard in carryout the
installation. Electricity does not kill if you follow IEE Regulations, people will
patronize your work, if you’re doing it standard which lead to safety environment.
ADDING NEW CIRCUIT IN EXISTING BUILDING:
To add new circuit in a
building, you must check the capacity of the distribution fuse board if it can
able to hold it without exceeding its rating. If it is going to exceed its
rating called for change to high current rating fix it, and then add the
additional circuit. Electrical engineering always goes with label and color
identification, it is a standard work to follow color system according to the
specification, you will enjoy your work and everybody seeing it will be happy.
