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Common electrical terminology

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=== breaker box ===Otherwise known as a panel or panel box.  It is a metal box in a building containing breakers for each electrical circuit.  The "main" panel or "service" panel would be the central source for the home and would be receiving its power from the power company. === common ===The terminal of a three-way switch (or the wire attached to it) which connects internally to either one or the other of the traveler terminals, depending on the position the switch is moved to.=== fuse ===A legacy device that interrupts current to its circuit by melting apart. When tripped, the fuse is destroyed, opening the circuit.  A tripped fuse must be replaced with a new one after the electrical fault or overload is located.=== fuse box ===Predecessor to the modern breaker box.=== gang ===Describes an accommodation of receptacles or switches in an electrical box.=== ground ===In residential wiring, the 3 wires are hot, neutral, and ground.  Either not insulated or green insulated wire.  The ground is the connection to the earth at the location of the electrical system.  The ground wire is not connected so as to be part of the normal path of the circuit, as a neutral is.  The earth ground only carries a current in a fault or short circuit condition and is a safety precaution.  === ground fault ====== hot ===In residential wiring, the 3 wires are hot, neutral, and ground.  The black wire.  The hot wire has voltage present and may be used to complete a circuit via the neutral, ground, or a human body standing on the ground.=== junction box ===a box used only for making connections such as splicing into an electrical circuit.The junction point of the legs in a Wye circuit.In residential wiring, the 3 wires are hot, neutral, and ground.  Neutral is the white wire. The junction point of the legs in a Wye circuit.=== panel ===Otherwise known as a panel box or breaker box.=== pigtail ====== Scotchlok ===Insulation displacement connectors also known as a wire nut.The main breaker box or panel in a building is the  central source for receiving power from the utility provider.  A subpanel is another breaker box fed from the main breaker box panel. 
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