[.ca] Basic Wiring (Home Repair and Improvement (Updated Series)) (ISBN 0783538626)

Lots of accurate easy to understand diagrams:
This book on basic wiring is outstanding. Unlike a lot of books with written explainations this book has accurate easy to understand and follow diagrams. If you hold an electrical outlet in you hand you can see exactly what it looks like in the diagram. This book takes away the fear of electricity.

excellent for beginners:
This is easily the best basic introduction I've seen. Clear, well-illustrated, neither assuming prior experience nor treating the reader as a dummy, it can take you from Zero to rewiring branch circuits with confidence and safety. I really can't recommend it highly enough! I already had experience, but picked up useful bits from it, and have loaned a copy to several friends. The T/L Home Repair and Improvement series is good in general (more than I can say for most series), but especially this volume.

Excellent reference.:
I had done some wiring before I got this book, but I wanted a reference that I could use if there was something that I was at all unsure of. Once I got the book, I was very pleased with all the handy hints and illustrations. Definitely worth having it around if you're a novice electrician.

Too little information:
Basic Wiring was and is a major disappointment. Much of the 128 pages are dedicated to pictorials of electrical components. The photographs are of high quality, but who wants to know what the"face plate of a manual timer switch" looks like? That took up half a page. Too basic to help any one but the totally uninformed.

OK book:
Its just OK...you'll need another book to feel comfortable enoug to do actual electrical work