N.J. license exam
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Ken9876
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Re: N.J. license exam
You are going to need to know
-Residential load calculations, as well the alternate method, you will not be doing the entire calculation but parts of them.
-Calculations for marinas, motor home parks, commercial calculations.
-Ohm's law , Power & VA calculations
-Apply demand factors
-Derate wires, size conduit
-Calculations for multi family dwellings
-Range calculations
Good luck to you.
Bring everything to the test center, DO NOT count on them to have anything. You'll find the people giving the test are unorganized and seem to have no idea what their doing.
You are going to need to know
-Residential load calculations, as well the alternate method, you will not be doing the entire calculation but parts of them.
-Calculations for marinas, motor home parks, commercial calculations.
-Ohm's law , Power & VA calculations
-Apply demand factors
-Derate wires, size conduit
-Calculations for multi family dwellings
-Range calculations
Good luck to you.
Bring everything to the test center, DO NOT count on them to have anything. You'll find the people giving the test are unorganized and seem to have no idea what their doing.
bdarnell
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Re: N.J. license exam
I have to respectfully disagree with some of Ken's post, having taken NJ about a year ago. The folks from Experior were very well organized and the test was well administered. The only thing you need to bring (in fact the only thing you will be allowed to bring) is your Fire Alarm and Business Law books. They will furnish you with an unmarked, untabbed NEC, calculators, scratch paper and even pencils if you didn't bring your own. All scratch paper has to be turned in with your test.
Study everything Ken mentioned and Mike Holt's books and practice tests are the best! Hint - I'm told most people fail the Fire Alarm portion the first time more than anything else. I aced it, but I have a lot of alarm background.
If you go to test in the winter months, wear long underwear. They keep the testing room colder than a well digger's butt!
Good luck.
I have to respectfully disagree with some of Ken's post, having taken NJ about a year ago. The folks from Experior were very well organized and the test was well administered. The only thing you need to bring (in fact the only thing you will be allowed to bring) is your Fire Alarm and Business Law books. They will furnish you with an unmarked, untabbed NEC, calculators, scratch paper and even pencils if you didn't bring your own. All scratch paper has to be turned in with your test.
Study everything Ken mentioned and Mike Holt's books and practice tests are the best! Hint - I'm told most people fail the Fire Alarm portion the first time more than anything else. I aced it, but I have a lot of alarm background.
If you go to test in the winter months, wear long underwear. They keep the testing room colder than a well digger's butt!
Good luck.
Ken9876
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Re: N.J. license exam
Sorry,
Experior at the test I took a year ago sucked, very unprofessional. You were not to use you own code book, code books came late so we were instructed to use whatever we had, once the code books came, only a few honest people stopped using their material and retrieved one of Experior's code books. Beeper, phones etc. were not allowed in the testing room, but oddly they were. Very unorganized and unprofessional.
And NJ only licenses electricians
Sorry,
Experior at the test I took a year ago sucked, very unprofessional. You were not to use you own code book, code books came late so we were instructed to use whatever we had, once the code books came, only a few honest people stopped using their material and retrieved one of Experior's code books. Beeper, phones etc. were not allowed in the testing room, but oddly they were. Very unorganized and unprofessional.
And NJ only licenses electricians
bdarnell
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Re: N.J. license exam
True. You can all the HVAC/R work you want, usually without a permit. Go figure.
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