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  • Spon's Estimating Costs Guide to Electrical Worksby Bryan Spain

    Spon Press 2003; US$ 60.95

    All the cost data you need to keep your estimating accurate, competitive and profitable. more...

  • Handbook of Electrical Design Detailsby Neil Sclater; John E. Traister

    McGraw-Hill 2003; US$ 90.00

    Here are hundreds of ready-to-use electrical drawings that show the complete design and layout details of electrical systems for lighting, power, signal and communication systems, raceways, and related equipment. Whether you're involved with residential, commercial, or industrial buildings and facilities, you'll be able to exploit precisely rendered drawings whose symbols and notations illustrate exactly what design detail is required in each system application. Developed by a leader in the electrical construction industry, these details are: Easy to draw--just copy any detail in the book then trace the detail directly to your drawing paper; Easy to use with CAD systems--each drawing may be scanned and imported directly into any draw or CAD... more...

  • Emergency and Security Lightingby Gerard Honey

    Elsevier 2001; US$ 56.95

    The comprehensive guide for identifying needs, specification and installation of emergency and security lighting systems. Emergency and Security Lighting is a thoroughly practical guide for lighting installers and electricians, intruder alarm and fire alarm installers, and managers with security and health and safety responsibilities. Covering the latest workplace directives, building and fire regulations, it is essential reading. The text is concise and accessible and includes the latest technical developments such as low-energy systems for extended period lighting. This book provides the underpinning knowledge necessary for the level 3 NVQs from SITO / City & Guilds. The concise, accessible text makes it an ideal coursebook. This accessibility... more...

  • Light and Light Sourcesby Peter G. Flesch

    Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG 2006; US$ 219.00

    Describes the electrode and plasma diagnostics and explains as numerical methods used for the understanding of high-intensity discharge lamps. Addressing scientists and researchers at universities and industry, this volume examines gas discharge lamps, with a focus on high-pressure discharge lamps. more...

  • Light's labour's lostby OECD Publishing

    Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 2006; US$ 130.00

    When William Shakepeare wrote Love?s Labour?s Lost he would have used light from tallow candles at a cost (today) of £12,000 per million-lumen hours. The same amount of light from electric lamps now costs only £2! But today?s low-cost illumination still has a dark side. Globally, lighting consumes more electricity than is produced by either hydro or nuclear power and results in CO2 emissions equivalent to two thirds of the world?s cars. A standard incandescent lamp may be much more efficient than a tallow candle, but it is far less efficient than a high-pressure sodium lamp. Were inefficient light sources to be replaced by the equivalent efficient ones, global lighting energy demand would be up to 40% less at a lower overall cost. Larger savings... more...

  • Lighting Engineering: Applied Calculationsby R. H. Simons; Robert Bean

    Taylor & Francis 2001; US$ 170.00

    'Lighting Engineering: Applied Calculations' describes the mathematical background to the calculation techniques used in lighting engineering and links them to the applications with which they are used. The fundamentals of flux and illuminance, colour, measurement and optical design are covered in detail. There are detailed discussions of specific applications, including interior lighting, road lighting, tunnel lighting, floodlighting and emergency lighting. The authors have used their years of experience to provide guidance for common mistakes and useful techniques including worked examples and case studies. The last decade has seen the universal application of personal computers to lighting engineering on a day-to-day basis. Many calculations... more...

  • Estimator's Electrical Man-Hour Manualby John S. Page

    Elsevier 1999; US$ 128.00

    This manual's latest edition continues to be the best source available for making accurate, reliable man-hour estimates for electrical installation. This new edition is revised and expanded to include installation of electrical instrumentation, which is used in monitoring various process systems. more...

  • Outdoor Lightingby Duco Schreuder

    Springer 2008; US$ 209.00

    This book covers theoretical aspects that are at the basis of lighting installations. It focuses on insight, backgrounds and coherence. There are many fundamental aspects that are essential for understanding why different ways to install and use lighting give different results. A purely pragmatic approach to solving practical lighting problems will lead to pitfalls. But as this book shows, on the basis of fundamental considerations on optics, light sources and vision, causes and effects that tend to be overlooked by lighting engineers and designers can be identified. The selection of subjects in this book is based on more than 50 years of experience in studying the fundamental and practical applications of lighting and vision. The author has... more...

  • The Electric Lightby Liz Sonneborn

    Infobase Publishing 2007; US$ 35.00

    In 1879, Thomas Alva Edison invented the first practical incandescent electric light in his Menlo Park, New Jersey, laboratory, ushering in an era driven by electricity. This work takes a look at this achievement, examining how the lightbulb was partly responsible for transforming the country's agrarian economy into the modern industrial economy. more...

  • Lighting Controlby Robert Simpson

    Elsevier 2003; US$ 86.95

    Robert Simpson's comprehensive volume covers all aspects of lighting control systems. It starts with two foundation chapters outlining the basics of electricity, light and electronics as they apply to lighting control. It then reviews all current artificial lightsources, and comments on their suitability for control. A section on lighting control components covers electronic and electromagnetic dimmers, ballasts and transformers. The next section reviews lighting control systems, including those for stage and entertainment, architectural applications, energy management and building control; and includes a chapter on control signals protocols. The final part is an extensive applications review, fully illustrated, covering everything from hotels... more...