Getting Your Electrician License
By Elizabeth Morgan, Fri Dec 9th

One thing you need to know about getting certified and receivingyour electrician license is that it's going to take a lot ofhard work on your part. There is quite simply a lot to learnbefore you could even begin to think about taking the statetesting required to receive an electrician license. Whether youtake an online course, attend schools, or study by yourself athome, there's a lot to learn in order to pass the license test.

Here's an overview of one course that leads to successfullicensing. It begins with learning strategies, what type ofstudent you are, and how best to approach the material. Itquickly moves into a simple explanation about electricity, housecircuits, and electrical distribution. From there it moves on todiscuss safety, national electrical codes, federal OSHArequirements, and what to do if you or someone else gets shockedon the job.

After that electrical equipment and supplies are discussed -meters, circuit analyzer tools, conductors, insulators,conduits, resistors, switches, relays, thermostats, remotecontrols, and fuses.

Once you're familiar with the tools, basic installationtechniques are explored. An interest in math will be veryhelpful. The math required for high level electrical work can becomplex but once you know the formula to solve your problem, itmakes things that much easier. And don't forget the metricsystem either. Lots of equipment is manufactured in countrieswhere the metric system rules so you have to have a workingunderstanding of the differences.

By the time you completely understand resistance theories,parallel circuits and Ohm's law you'll have mastered the basicthinking skills involved with getting your electrician license.From this point forward you'll have learned enough to take thelicense test. Courses of study after this can be thought of asgraduate courses in that they focus in on specific areas thatmay not interest you. Right at this point you'll have the basicknowledge to take the test and if you've learned your stuff andstudied hard you should have no problem passing the test andreceiving your electrician license.

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