Study Books or ideas for My Apprentice to learn from

[chris1971]

I have an apprentice who is a good employee. I want him to succeed in the trade. He has two years of trade school under his belt. He's learning alot in the field. I'm looking for ideas and/or suggestions for helping him in the trade? Any good books? (I know the code book. Any others?)

 

[noeernlat]

I'd recommend Electrical Wiring-Residential or Electrical Wiring-Commercial by Ray C Mullin. I'd tell him to visit this forum and browse around and to consider investing in Mike Holt's DVDs and textbooks.

 

[bphgravity]

American Electrician's Handbook, any Mike Holt publication, any Tom Henry publication.

 

[kwired]

If he has two years of school already he is tired of calculations for hypothetical installations. He needs to do some real world calculations and see his work put to use.

I'm not saying have him design an entire project, but have him do some feeder and branch circuit calculations, raceway fill, etc. for things he will be installing. You never know he may catch mistakes you made.

Maybe if you are on a job and a code question comes up related to the installation, have him look it up first, then you look and discuss any differences of opinion.

 

[luckyshadow]

"Soares Book on Grounding" by the IAEI
"Grounding and Bonding" by Mike Holt

Notice a theme here?
Article 250 - one of the most talked about, most violated, misunderstood and misapplied code sections