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Department of Education: Republic of The P Hilippines

This document describes various electrical materials and their purposes. It lists common materials like convenience outlets, male plugs, circuit breakers, junction boxes, utility boxes, metallic and plastic conduits, stranded and solid wires, flat cords, clamps, connectors, and electrical wires or conductors. Pictures further illustrate some of the materials, such as convenience outlets, male plugs, circuit breakers, and junction boxes.

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Department of Education: Republic of The P Hilippines

This document describes various electrical materials and their purposes. It lists common materials like convenience outlets, male plugs, circuit breakers, junction boxes, utility boxes, metallic and plastic conduits, stranded and solid wires, flat cords, clamps, connectors, and electrical wires or conductors. Pictures further illustrate some of the materials, such as convenience outlets, male plugs, circuit breakers, and junction boxes.

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Plastic

Surface type (duplex)

R epublic of the P hilippines


Circuit breaker
Metal MATERIALS AND DESCRIPTIONS PICTURES
MaleFlush type
plugs D epartment of E ducation
N a t i o n a l C a pi t a l Re g i o n
Sc h o o l s D i v i s i o n O f f i c e o f La s Pi ñ a s C i t y Convenience outlet- a device that acts as a
convenient source of electrical energy for
NAME: ______________________________________________________________ Score: ______________________ current consuming appliances. It is where
GRADE & SECTION _______________________ Teacher: ___________________ the male plug of an appliance is inserted
and is usually fastened on the wall or
________________________ MODULE IN TLE 8 connected in an extension cord. It may be
Third Quarter single, duplex, triplex, or multiplex
Week 1 and could be surface type or flush type.

MOST ESSENTIAL LEARNING COMPETENCY


Lesson 1: Prepare electrical supplies, materials and tools (code: TLE_IAE17/8UT-0a-2) Male plug- a device inserted
LO2. Prepare a list of electrical materials for a specific job to a convenience outlet to conduct
electric current. A flat cord is attached
to it on one end and the other end is
OBJECTIVES connected to a current-consuming
Identify electrical supplies and materials for a specific job instrument or appliance.

Electrical Supplies and Materials


Circuit Breaker - a protective device used to
Electrical materials are developed and constructed for a special purpose, automatically blow and cut the current when
such as to: trouble in the circuit such as short circuit or
overload occurs.
1. control the flow of current in an electrical circuit;
2. carry electrical current from the source to the load or current consuming apparatus;
3. hold and secure wires to its fixtures inside and outside houses and buildings; and Junction Box - an octagonal shaped
4. protect houses, buildings, appliances, and instruments from destruction and damage. electrical material where the connections or
joints of wires are being done. It is also
where the flush type lamp holder is
attached. This could be made of metal or
plastic (PVC) Polyvinylchloride.
The following are the most commonly used electrical materials:
Metallic
Utility Box conduit shaped metallic or
- a rectangular
plastic (PVC) material in which flush type
Metal connector Flexible non-metallic
Metalconvenience
clamp outlet
Strandedandwire
Plastic switch are attached.
clamp
connector
Flexible Non-metallic conductor
Flat cord corrugated
plastic conduit (CPC) Clamps- electrical materials used to hold and
Metal Plastic anchor electrical conduits to their proper position.
Flat
RigidCord - a Solid
duplex
Non-metallic stranded
wire
conduit wire used for
(PVC)
temporary wiring installation and commonly
used in extension cord assembly. It comes in a
roll of 150 meters and sizes of gauge # 18 and
gauge # 16 awg (American wire gauge). Connectors- used to attach metallic or non-
metallic conduit to the junction or utility boxes.

Electrical Wire/Conductor- electrical material


that could be:

a. Stranded wire which is made of multiple


strands joined together to make a single wire.
b. Solid wire is made of a single strand of copper
or aluminum wire. These are used in wiring
installation inside and outside the buildings.

Conduits/Pipes- electrical materials used as the


passage of wires for protection and insulation.
These could be rigid metallic, flexible metallic
MJC 6/29/2020
conduit (FMC), rigid nonmetallic (PVC), and
flexible non-metallic or corrugated plastic
conduit (CPC).

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