GFCI Outlet Installation - In 60 Seconds
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- Опубліковано 1 жов 2024
- This short video demonstrates a GFCI Outlet Installation. GFCI outlets or receptacles are very simple to install with some basic hand tools. They are very similar to a standard outlet or receptacle when it come to installation with exception of a few simple differences explained in this video.
These outlets are required by code within six feet of a water source such as in kitchens and bathrooms but also in other wet or potentially wet locations such as basements, garages or exterior outlets.
These outlets are designed to trip when they detect a current delta between hot and neutral of 5mA or higher.
Be sure to disconnect power by opening a circuit breaker or pulling the fuse before working on any electrical circuits. Also verify power has been disconnected with a meter or other approved method. - Навчання та стиль
Please comment with any questions.. I will reply ASAP. Thanks for watching!
GFI also required in the attic
My house violates that…….. in about 3 places
@@frankie-3598 They also use it on wire nut
why do you have to pigtail the neutral and hot going to the line side, or at all?
@@kingdiesel68 That is to feed another receptacle, without put in another GFCI
You better get those screws on the cover plate facing up and down sir lol
Was gonna say the exact same thing lol!
That's the only thing I noticed
I can't understand what this means.
@@xbubbleheadthe outer screws holding on the cover plate arent lined up vertically so everything was done wrong
I lost it when I saw it lol
Electrician once told me wanna learn how to do a outlet. He said what do white people wear jewelry wise. I said silver he said okay put the white wire to the silver screw. He then said what do black people wear in jewelry I said gold he said okay take the black wire and stick it to the gold screws. Then last he said what does the Spanish man need to get to work a green card he said now take the brown wire to the green one. From that moment on I became a electrician an never forgot itm
And then there is an apprenticeship program..
Also “black is hot, white is not” 😂
@@Rey.Moskito well you lost me with that one 😆
Black to Brass is a slightly less racist way to remember as well. 😀
In australia the brown wire is hot... The same colour your pants will go if you touch it
Shorts are the best. I am so glad this wasn’t a 14 minute video.
Black to brass
White to silver
Green to ground
Wires go the direction of tightening the screw
Line = in
Load =out
Little tip: GFCI’s are also great near aquariums or aquatic animal habitats, if a pump or heater shorts to the water, your pets won’t be harmed.
Well yea thats their only purpose
@@lauramagagnoli7750 No. they’re real purpose is around other sources of water like a kitchen or bathroom. I never see them put near aquariums even thought they really should be.
@@joeythefoxxo well one yes it is gfci purpose is to protect againt a ground fault which would be it makes contact with water and prevents anything from being harmed by tripping before whatever it is can make a full circuit and unless the aquarium is planned ahead of time before construction or if its an enclosed tank its not needed
@@lauramagagnoli7750 Never said that tripping wasn’t the purpose of a GFCI. And I know exactly how they work down to the circuitry inside them. Also never said they were required by aquariums. Simply said they are a good idea, and GFCI’s can take the place of any outlet, so even if an aquarium is preexisting you can still add GFCI protection.
Be careful about animals and GFCI outlets, as a minor shock to us (About 1/60th of a second to trip a GFCI.) can kill many animals. 💙 T.E.N.
You should never use impacts on the electrical connections of outlets
You can set them to low power/non impact mode where it doesn't get tighter than by hand
You have to know how to use them for sure but if you do they're fine.
You can use an impact, I have been doing it my entire career, get with the times
@Treedom Vellacroix you can not set any brand is that us a impact, but he mentioned NONE impact, and yes you can in ryobi brand
Facts
Great video! But my OCD wishes the faceplate screws were both horizontal 🤣
My OCD is like yours. 😂 I should have done that for this video. Everything came out right after the video was complete but that is my practice as well.
Aggreed
I was thinking cover plate what about the fuckin drywall 😂
@@owenwilson3750 🤣
No, vertical.
Your ground and neutral are touching.
I fixed it but it didn't make the edit due to the 60 second time limit for shorts.
I saw that to
I was gonna say
I wrap the screw terminals with electrical tape to prevent accidents like that. Doesn't hurt.
I like to crimp my pigtails to the screw so if it does come loose its not moving away from the screw. Then I tape around the receptacle, switch or whatever.
I'm not an electrician and that's exactly what I do
In a plastic box this is a waste of time it's common to see this done in metal boxes in commercial settings
@@moves3297 maybe so but I always like putting a little more time in especially when I do it faster than most people I know anyways.
I've been called about a GFCI Receptical not working....usually the neutrals are reversed! I always test before I fully install!
Same here my friend. I actually go through the whole house check every receptacle with a tester. Also check every light, and light switches.
at the end i saw the ground touching the green wire watch carefully befo puttin that covr on towurdz the end bro😩⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️
I saw that and fixed it before it went in but when editing the video it magically was gone. Good catch though.
Bought a 94yr old house 5 mths ago. I'm having to learn how to DIY EVERYTHING. This vid made me realize that I have none of there anywhere in the house. Now I'm adding 4 GFCI's to my ever growing Home Depot cart. Thank you!
I want this channel to become a resource for people like you. I'm an electrician by trade but I also DIY everything. I hope you will find more useful content here as well.
Please dont use a drill, please please please.
I've been using an impact for many years with no issue. It's about knowing when to stop. Don't know how many thousands of devices installed this way... Never an issue. Not even one.
@@BackyardMaine me too. I install plugs and switches for a living. I use an impact Every. Single. Time. And I’m not afraid to say it!!🤣. However I do recommend making sure to have the torque set on 1 or 2
@@g-dub4593 It's just so fast and it save the wrists..
I would highly suggest putting the cover plate on after the drywall
Obviously.. 😂 It's only a demo install.
@@BackyardMaine Haakon. Not only did he miss that this was demonstration only, he didn't realize you would not enstall the receptacle either, at this time
Use a square #1 bit instead of a Phillips and you’re life with automatically improve 10 quality points. 🤣
Why did you do that ugly grounding through the green wire nut???
That's an approved method of grounding. Another method I use is a ground crimp barrel.
It looks so weird. A bare PE wire? And a GFCI in the box itself... And an impact drill? ;)
Just strange for me, since I work in Belgium, Europe. We put an RCD or two (or more) in the electrical cabinet/board, I've never seen a socket with built in one, but they might exist for special purposes, who knows.
Interesting, though.
We also have arc fault and GFCI circuit breakers as well if you want to protect the whole circuit.
Some plugs have built in RCD (like the old Flymo lawn mowers, high risk of chopping your cable) but as mentioned the consumer unit has RCD protection nowadays.
if it has a line and a load said does that mean you can connect the load side to another outlet on the same breaker to effectively have that gfci protected as well
Yes absolutely
Yes that's what the load side it for.
Yeah
Yep
No.
People who bend the wire around the screw when you could just stick it in the hole in the back infuriate me. WHY DO YOU DO THIS!?
I would never let one of my employees use the back stab connections. They are extremely unreliable. They were made to help the homeowner or DIYer install a device. Electricians know better.
Hand tools only to connect wire to the receptacle !!! You can crack the device with power tools
Never had that problem but if you don’t know how to use the tool without damaging the connection or the device you should not use it.
Been using an impact for almost 20 years to install outlets and have never stripped or cracked an outlet.
Umm Your neutral and earth are touching doesn't that mean that you are sending power to your earth now causing imbalance in the gfci causing it to trip?
I fixed it but edited it out. But know it wouldn’t trip. The GFCI trips on a 5mA delta between hot and neutral.
You should have mentioned that if you're only connecting to the line side to not remove the stickers covering the terminals on the load side.
Ahh good tip.. I didn't think to mention that.
lol you better get those wallplate screws vertically
Depending on where you live and house your home is designed, every outlet could possibky be within 6ft of a water source. Personally, I just install these over the regular outlets no matter where it's located
It's actually code now in most places that virtually every circuit be protected with a arc fault gfci breaker that protects every outlet on that circuit with the exception of large appliances like your range or dryer and oddly enough your hot water heater
My outlet both kitchen and bathroom kept tripping. What is the solution and advice you may have.
It could be the devices are failing or it could be that whatever you're plugging in has a problem and the device is doing it's job. I would know for sure with out checking them out in person.
I’m heavily anti using power tools the way you did
It's not a problem as long as you know when to stop. I've never stripped one or had one come loose.
@@BackyardMaine hell yeah your hand comes with a torque sensor nice!… you have your options I have mine
As long as load side neutral of GFI isn't touching it's fine. Ground and neutral are bonded in panel. (Takes less time to make a baby)🙊🙈🙉
I fixed it but edited it out to make the video under 60 seconds
Um what about the cover plate screws you didn’t even make the slots the same smh
Come on... you don't know this is a demo install not in someones house. There were several clues. lol
I died doing this
Is this comment from your ghost? 😁
And my OCD kicked in when I saw u didn't have the bottom screw matching the top on, slot angle wise. Top one was great
It came back out right after the video... 😂
Power tools for electric screws? Wasted three minutes of my life.
You should never use a tool unless you know how. The skill is knowing when to stop and how much pressure you apply. Never had a problem. And you only wasted one minute not three.
No let's not put in a GFI they trip for no reason ALL the time! Do yourself a favor, and don't use them!
They measure the delta between hot and neutral and trip on 5mA. Maybe the circuits have an issue. I only had issues with maybe one out of 50 which Are faulty out of the box.
About 1 out of 25 for me. 💙 T.E.N.
As an electrical engineer, I'm always curious about the different equipment that is used around the world!
Same here my friend. I’m an electrician and an electrical engineer. I was a senior engineer for Texas Instruments here in Maine. They have other facilities all over the world so I have a understanding of the industrial side of things but not so much on the residential side.
Stop lieing you looked for better ways to f*ck the electrician in the field. Yall get drunk and play darts using a blank set of prints....where it lands we will spin the wheel to determine what device we put in that location. Then we get them and complete make your madness make sense
Your cover screws should go north to south.
Even for a demo outlet that came out after the video? lol
I'd rather have a 15amp GFCI circuit breaker in electrical panel of my home.
These plugs are great in a hotel room obviously.
I don't want my home to have a hotel feel with these which remind me of that.
The breakers are a great option just a little more money.
The code allows a couple different ways to protect a circuit with gfci protection. Now, we should get some client input for this.
Let your neighbor talk about how he sees your wife through the windows from his house walking naked through your house in the morning.....bathroom gfci trips during hair and the panel and reset is in the garage and you may like the receptacle version......
Or
Wash your can in the back yard and transport the mud on your shoes to the panel in a bed room floor and you might think differently.
As a client, you can decide how you want. I can install whatever.
Oh, I did not mention cost differences.
Never understood what was so bad about using an impact on receptacles, saves my wrist and fingers from extra work since I'm a carpenter and already have wrist pain. I don't feel as bad about it now knowing an electrician uses one too haha. I understand there's a time and place for it but that seems to be the only thing about it.
Exactly! It's just a matter of knowing how to use the tool. I've never stripped a screw and I done thousands.
I've always been doing it. No one has ever told me not to
@@-reydensetsu-6067 it's not common practice from what I've seen, I wonder why. Be a lot better than coming in with a fat tool bag filled with 30 different $40 Milwaukee fuel diamond head titanium hardened screw drivers, only to leave at least one on each job site. I could probably start a hardware store for how many some guys leave behind lol. To each their own I guess.
The DeWalt 887 is great for this. It has a setting that is very low torque for just this purpose. Milwaukee is fine but to me DeWalt makes better tools for electricians. The DeWalts seem to give you better control.
Torque specs?
You do realize that GFCI now have the push in. Keep wire straight loosen nut and insert it into the lil holes next to nut with wire straight then tighten the nut. You don't need to pig tail them anymore. I really wish you'd show that way instead. Way faster
Biggest cause of fires
They always come loose on me that way.
You didn't leave the face plate screws in a vertical position
I know but this was just a demo and came right back out.
Good thing you’re using a Ryobi, anything else and you would’ve stripped those screws 🤣
I been hearing that... I know how to use it without even coming close to stripping the screw. Maybe I'll do a video on this..
@@BackyardMaine the joke is ryobi is crap and has no power.
@@luciddream2033 I get it but I think they work well especially for the money.
@@luciddream2033 Ryobi is not crap, it’s just not meant for heavy/industrial work. It’s made for light/residential work and your DIYer. They’re great bang for your buck.
@@cesarmoore7996 it's crap.
It’s not vide but I prefer to have the ground on top
No professional uses an impact on receptacles. Thanks for teaching people the wrong way, keeps companies in business.
If you don't know how to use it "correctly" without damaging the receptacle then you definitely shouldn't use one. The same goes for any other tool. I'm a professional and I of course know many others and they all use an impact when trimming out a house. Is so fast and I have never had an issue. Not even one.
I do, so does everyone at my work.
Is there a reason not to use gfci exclusively? Over other outlets? It seems safer just to have one for every outlet from a layperson standpoint.
Nope it’s fine just a lot more money.
Price an excessablity... think if the gfci was behind a fridge especial with some being self testing... gfci breakers can solve this problem in some cases
@@jacobhatfield4970 Here we don't use GFCI for the refrigerator but yes GFCI breakers are often used. I have a few in my home panel.
As an electrician myself this install was great. Easy and to the point. I bend .y hooks the same way. I personally never use a drill so I don't strip the screws just in case I have to get back in there but as long as you feel when to stop it never strips you got to be green to make that mistake lol. Good job
Thank You! Yes it is all about the feel when it comes to using an impact. I wouldn't use it unless I was sure I could do it without stripping the screws. Thanks for watching!
Use a drill with a clutch never strips.
@@nrrn4454 The trip is knowing when to stop. I've never stripped a screw.
@@BackyardMaine I agree!
Exposed boxes should use a garvin cover and not a faceplate. For finished walls and locations only…
It was a demo that came right back out.
Wrong!!! The cover plate screws aren’t vertical.😂
You do know that it come out as soon as I was done recording. It was just for demonstration. I’m OCD so my cover screw are alway vertical. But most people couldn’t care less about that. 😂
@@BackyardMaine then why didn't you land your wires correctly? Typically a decent electrician will land the line in the top of the box and the load in the bottom. That way when someone looks in the box they can easily identify the line and load. The same goes for switches. Power in the bottom of boxes, switch legs in the top.
@@luciddream2033 Im not sure what your experience live is but that never happens when roughing in a house.
@@BackyardMaine well I done residential and commercial wiring for about 6 years. I am currently employed as head of the electrical department for a roofing plant for 5 years now, doing industrial automation and PLC, VFD, and HMI programming.
While I worked as a residential electrician, it was commonplace to go by the wiring method I described. I worked with several companies and they all identified their wiring this way. Not sure what they do where you come from, but what described is a good practice, not code, but good practice. How else are you going to identify line and load if they come in the bottom of a box, a sharpie that will get rubbed off?
@@luciddream2033 It's not code or common practice but if it works for you use it. But maybe not state it like it is code or some rule I didn't know. I've been an electrician for 38 years and spent the last 12 years as a senior electrical engineer for a 150 Billion dollar corporation. High voltage, controls, VFDs, PLCs, Automation systems, fire alarms systems, 2 meg generators, 35 500kva battery UPS systems with two rotary UPS system. Ive kind of been around the block..
didnt straighten the cover plate screws cmon dawg
Just a mock up which came out after the video...
I like those green wirenuts with the hole for the ground - one less pigtail to mess with.😊
I usually make the loops then look at the gfi and it's the clamp on: stick in terminals
Installing the cover plate before the sheetrock is installed?We do it right,because we do it twice!
Come on... This was just a demonstration install and it came right back out.
Nobody is seriously this stupid, right? RIGHT?! Jesus Spencer, you better be joking here or I lose all hope in humanity.
If that's the case,you should make this clear to your viewers.They see these 30 to 40 seconds videos and think they have it down to a science.
Why not install at the source breaker box ? Covering the complete circuit surely not just the outlet
That is an option. I have a few GFCI breakers in my panel. Cheaper to install receptacles though.
@@BackyardMaine in Europe i think the regulations around 20 years ago was that only recepticules which will be used to feed outdoor equipment only needed leakage detectors recepticules . Now almost all circuits require require a leakage interrupter at source. We are 230v here though 😞
@@NERTH247 The locations requiring GFCI protection have grown a lot over the years as well but now almost everything here also requires AFCI protection.
@@BackyardMaine arc fault protection is becoming more available here and also surge protector at source
I saw a video where they said look at the screws as silver and gold and then think black gold (oil) so black goes to gold then white to silver
Hey that's a 20 amp GFCI but you're using 14 Guage wire.
Great eye. I was just doing a demo for the video so it was never powered up. I didn't think anyone would notice. 🧐
Use a square #1 bit instead of a Phillips and you’re life with automatically improve 10 quality points. 🤣
Better yet, use combo tip bits.
I do have a serious question. I just came across your video while scrolling through shorts. I had never seen you before. I wanted to ask a question, but went to check your profile description first to find out your background, and it's great to know that you're extremely knowledgeable and experienced. So here's my question. My uncle has a home that was finished being built in 1920s. Started out as a one-story bungalow with no electricity and was built some years earlier. Anyway, All the outlets in the house are wired with BX cable. On one of the outlets that I had changed to a GFCI outlet, was an old (painted metal body) floor lamp plugged into it. One day I went to move it out of the way to do some cleaning, and the base a accidentally nocked into the cast iron radiator and I saw a little Spark and heard a pop then the GFCI outlet went dead. Now I thought that it needed to be reset, but none of the buttons would do anything. The whole Outlet was shot. I even use a tester to check it while pushing both the test and reset button. Nothin. I ended up having to replace the entire outlet. I just want to know does that mean anything more than it's just a crappy outlet? Might that indicate something else? And just FYI the outlet is on its own circuit.
I have seen short circuits cause these receptacles to fail but not always. Many times a ground fault will be cleared and the device will still work. When you do experience a trip you should find and repair the fault or discard the faulty equipment.
Fix your lamp first, but about 10% of the GFCI outlets I install are dead before installation or die within a week, which is better than when they first came out. Some GFCI outlets and breakers do die the first time that they are tripped, even after they are tested with the test button. Check to make sure that the power line is connected to the LINE side of the GFCI, and if it was connected to the LOAD side, just discard it and get a new one and install it. 💙 T.E.N.
Most likely when you bumped or pulled on the plug the ground contacted the nuetral when you disconected it you cleared the fault. Then most likely tried to push the reset button with receptacle disconnected, but the gfci needs power to reset. If you threw it away you wasted $20. Next time install a spec grade gfci with lugs for straight wires. Worth a dollar or 2. #12 loosens the. Screw terminals when your folding the wires in the box.
High carumbaugh my GFCI has about friven me to the funny farm .
A bdrm outlet blew out, i find out that the bathroom GFCI controls that br the backyard lite and the kitchen ceiling lite. WTH? New GFCI green lite is on but won't reset, no power in bathroom but kitchen and br do? I switched the 2 wires on the load side. Thanks..... ps, about to go postal
I must be the only one still installing receptacles ground up.
No the NEC doesn't specify receptacle orientation with exception of prohibiting a face up position in or under a countertop. Most install ground down but there are those who install ground up. Either way is fine.
I use ground up to indicate a switched or half switched outlet for a lamp, or in shops that deal in sheet metal. 💙 T.E.N.
You are!!!!
Impact drill? Come on, dude.
Very quick but it's not for everyone. You have to know when to stop. I've done 1000s like this and never stripped one out.
Why pigtail the GFCI if it's not feeding a load?
If you connect the load wires to the load screws on the GFCI receptacle then down stream receptacles will be protected by that GFCI.
Isn't just as safe to run the power wires to a GFCI screw vs. pigtail, if there is NO downstream feed?
Yuck horizontal screws!
😂
Noooo... Why not line up the plate screws?!?
Demo install that came right back out.
@@BackyardMaine I figured that right after I left the comment, lol!
so if i have a gfci outlet in my bathroom And it has 3 romex wires Coming into the box one going to a outlet another one for the gfci outlet and another one for something else How do i figure out what is my power to go into my line and do i only ever put 1 black wire On my line and one white wire on my other line or can i put more then one
How do I get 2 of these in the same beaker ? Also the older plugs had but the hot side circuit cut? When I tried them the breaker will just pup up. 😅
Doing a bathroom reno and found the receptacle box for the 220v oven under and beside the metal tub. Just a little scary. All boxed in now and waterproof.
Yup scary. There are zones measure around and above a tub where no electrical connections can be located.
I am cleaning up 15amp line in a basement. It was four outlets with the first being a GFi. The outlets need to be moved and since they will be on the outside of an interior of the wall. Trying to save on the wire expense. Is it proper and safe to run something like a T line. Where the top continues to the next outlet and then drop a line to the outlet on the well. A junction box would be needed for each runner liner to the outlets.
Yes that will be fine but remember the auction boxes will need to be accessible which means they can't be buried in a wall. You can put them above a suspended ceiling or even in a wall with a blank cover. The idea is that you have access to spliced conductors.
Wow I almost destroyed the house mi legrand has written line/hot but a white screw and line/white with a white screw also plus the top load side hot is brown screw and white white white screw this screwed me up
Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
Nowadays we just use GFI breakers for the kitchen, baths, and basements. Doing renovations we stick a lot of those in though. I would suggest using a screwdriver instead of an impact, unless it's a weak one, that ryobi is fine.
Yes the breakers are a fine option. The only problem Ive seen is people not wanting to do anything in the panel where they don't mind resetting the receptacle. I've never had a problem with the impact even though it's a Ryobi.. Some of the name brands now have a low setting for this very purpose.
An impact to tighten the terminals? Yeah that’s a great way to strip them out
You have to know how to use the tool. I use very little pressure and I have never stripped a screw. It's not for everyone though.
@@BackyardMaine 20 years in the field and I’ve never seen a licensed guy try to save three seconds with one. You do you bud
@Matt Berg 38 year licensed electrician and electrical engineer here. I know a lot of masters and journeyman using them daily. Milwaukee even make a low torque setting to this purpose.
@@BackyardMaine hey if it works
You screwed the cover plate you have to make the to run up and down so all the extra juice can drain out. Lol I had a former boss that we had to do it that way. After I quit and when I had to go fix a receptacle I could always tell if it was one of which company wired the place.
in europe gfci cover all the house
Omg thats what those holes are for in my wire strippers. What have i been doing with my pliers like a total dumbass?
Been working with generators and electricity for a while. Can someone explain a neutral. I get single phase items are power and ground, but I just don’t understand how neutral is like a ground and hot at the same time.
Great video idea.. Thanks. The short answer is power runs in a loop from the Hot (ungrounded) conductor through the load (whatever is using the electricity) and then back to the source through the neutral (grounded) conductor on a single phase 120/240v system. The current on your hot wire will match the current on your neutral. The neutral is bonded to ground at the main either in the breaker panel or at the meter. On a circuit that uses two hot line (240v) the current on each line will return on the other. Sometimes these circuits will also carry a neutral if there are 120v loads as well. In this case the neutral will carry the imbalance. I hope this helps.
Why do American outlets look so bad
This is an old GFCI I used for the video.
Even still they just look bad, and the terminals are exposed in the side. Just seems like bad design. The outlets we have in Australia keep all conductive parts of the terminals surrounded in plastic unable to be touched accidentally if the outlet was still live
Do you allow space for drywall at the front of the box?
It appears you can’t install drywall with the box so far back.
Yes a half inch for drywall. But this is just a demo and came right back out.
Tape that receptacle for the next guy. I know it’s not code, but just do it.
I have a light/switch after my gfci, show i pig tail on load side, or protect the switch?
Sleeve on the Earth!
Green wire nuts are approve for the ground connections.
What was the reason for twisting hot and natural what cases would you do and not do that down stream cuplets?
2020NEC:
Kitchen small appliance circuits, dishwasher, disposal, & washing machine require combo AFCI GFCI protection. GFCI is also required for a lighting circuit under a house in crawl space. They are required now for the range, clothes dryer, garage door opener, garage outlets, AC condenser, air compressor, welder, and of course outdoor, bathroom outlets. General lighting circuits, smoke detectors, microwave, trash compactor, freezers, treadmill, furnace, require AFCI protection only. Refrigerators require AFCI at least but not GFCI if they are more than 6' away from water . But nothing is required for the hot water heater.
I have a video on all the requirements for GFCI from the 2020 code and also the new requirements in 2023.
Everything went well until you put the faceplate screws horizontally 😖
I always provide a circuit diagram so there is no doubt how the wires are connected.
Why single stand wire? Working in ac or dc?
Homes in the United States and many other places are wired with NMC (Non-Metallic Cable) these cable have solid wire usually 14, 12, and 10AWG. Cables larger than 10AWG are usually stranded.
Same over here in the UK. Only we measure cable in (cross sectional area) csa mm². Not sure what it translates to in awg, but the largest single strand cable we use 2.5mm²
American electric standards are so weird
The best in the world.
They were good enough to win 2 world wars, and good enough to build a nuclear superpower nation that has roughly 1/3rd or 1/4th of the world's "pull" regarding economic and militaristic topics. 💪😎 🇺🇲🦅🇺🇲🦅🇺🇲🦅
You can't see the back of the receptacle because all of the words in the video cover it up
I'm not a fan of those. We've had to replace a gfci twice in our mobile home. Which the microwave was plugged into only. And they kept tripping. And u couldn't reset it. They shorted out causing other plugs in our kitchen to not work. So I just installed regular plugs. I know they are supposed to protect ur wiring in the home. But let's face it we ain't putting a heavy load on em
A GFCI receptacles sole purpose it to protect you from electrical injury or death and AFCI protection is used to prevent fires. I get that they can be a pain in the butt sometimes.
I have a question, I’m not electrician ,but I want to learn is ok transferring energy from a gfci 20 amps to 15amps switches or regular 15 amps outlet? What I know is that 15amps cannot be mix with 20 amps is that correct ? Please answer me
Watch this video and pay attention to the code references I show on the screen. ua-cam.com/video/XqV0WpcCFrQ/v-deo.html
That particular GFCI is NOT a self- monitoring type which feature a small LED status light. It is obsolete since 2015 and does meet code to install.
It's an old one I had lying around. Worked fine for the how to example.
How many people are actually dying from electrocution from water I have a feeling this is a big come on in the my house. Everyone I put in my house is real couldn’t handle the power save the perceived, sometimes is the wrong way.
I believe that these are necessary and a great safety device. They save many lives but just one is enough. Maybe someone you love.. These should not be tripping unless theres a problem. I've seen occasional failures but not many. The don't trip on current draw like a breaker rather the delta between hot and neutral if that current exceeds 5mA.
Nylon and plastic boxes, no good. Use metal and metal plate covers.
I have a question I have one of these in my Bathroom. Everyone's in a while I'll turn on the light and the GFI will Kick off what is the issue. I also have plug in a tester to see if it was wired and correctly and it shows no problems.
Sounds like an intermittent issue with the light. Now if the light also turns on a fan this can cause the GFCI to trip once in a while. Inductive loads like motors can sometimes be problematic for GFCIs.
Mostly a good video. You shouldn't wrap the screws when there is a manufacturer's compression plate on the screw to hold the wire. Always follow the manufacturer direction for installation
This is an older device with no plate.
here come all the first year apprentices with their critiques of wisdom
Funny all the comments I get on my videos about code but when I ask for the code reference I hear crickets. lol. I have been an electrician for 38 years...
Please fix your screws
Demo install only...
Why have Americans a nation who lets face it love designer stuff, have failed to design a module that look more aesthetically pleasing? I find switches and socket outlets in uk/europe are much nicer to look at.
Maybe it's a matter of what you get used too. I think our devices look great and when I travel I always thing the devices look odd.
I soldier screws to 15°. My OCD is better than your OCD
This uninsulated ground wire is dangerously close to live connection's, when you put the GFCI into the box... 👀👀
I tucked it in a little better but it didn't make the edit.
My fridge trips the gfci every 10 min, idk what to do 😤 I put in a new Gfci outlet, replaced the breaker and still ! It used to work fine . Heeeelp
Large appliances like refrigerators are problematic for GFCIs. There may be an issue with the fridge but maybe not. I know what I would do but I can’t advise for liability reasons.
What kind of monster would use a slotted screw for anything?
Anyone else got driven nuts watching him leave those screws horizontal? smh
Even on a demo that got ripped out after filming