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Section · 5 guidesSafety Basics
The fundamentals — grounding, GFCI versus AFCI, your panel, and how a GFCI actually protects you. Start here and the rest of the manual makes sense.
- Overview
Keep Your House Safe, One Circuit at a Time
The short list of things that actually keep a home electrically safe — and how to read your house as a set of circuits you can understand.
- How-to
How a GFCI Works — and How to Test and Reset One
What a GFCI senses, how it trips in milliseconds, and the thirty-second monthly test every homeowner should do.
- Guide
Grounding Basics
What the ground wire is for, why it gives fault current a safe path, and why a missing ground is worth fixing.
- Guide
GFCI vs AFCI
GFCI guards against shock, AFCI against fire — where each is required, where you need both, and how to tell which you have.
- Guide
Reading Your Breaker Panel Safely
The panel demystified from the outside — main breaker, branch circuits, amperage, and where a homeowner should stop.