@@Beall_ It’s not uncommon for the lights to be on one circuit and the receptacles be on another circuit. Try turning the circuit breaker off one at a time to see if any other lights or receptacles stop working. If they stop working, then you know that power is getting at least that far and then you could check those lights/receptacles (being sure breaker is off) to see if loose wires are the problem and everything downstream is not getting power.
Electrician here. These are actually called Ground Fault Circuit Interruptor. The work by monitoring the output voltage of the outlet and compare it with the return voltage. If the return voltage is lower than the output voltage (Mostly because of a shorted circuit) they cut of the power before the board can fry.
Your second solution just fixed my problem. I walked into my kitchen this morning and the coffee maker was out, all the outlets not powered. I started to stress. I restarted the breakers, nothing. It never occurred to me to find the gfci outlet to reset and wha-la! Issue fixed! Thanks!
Don’t tell people this stuff. I love these calls. This morning dispatched at 7:30 so on the clock. Got there at 8:45 walked in “these outlets aren’t working since your installers were here” check the panel all good see a little sub underneath with a tripped mini, booya it’s gonna be a good day.
Don't most people understand basic wiring/circuits/circuit breakers? I do all the work on our house, incl. electrical, plumbing, carpentry, appliances, cabinets, flooring, roofing, tiling, drywall - mud & tape, sand & paint, decking & supports, as well as landscaping, auto maint. but not all auto repairs.
Resetting the breaker is the easiest part of the service call. The difficulty is explaining to some people why they can't plug 3 heaters on the same circuit.
What if the outlet is supposed to have a GFCI outlet but does not? I think the GFCI tripped in my POS old house I bought and now my bathroom outlets don't work. In the breaker box there is the breaker box for the bathroom, the one with the little white button. Does that work like a regular breaker? I want my outlets back but I'm not sure how to proceed
And for a tripped breaker that keeps tripping and when reset it is easily barely hardly touched goes to the middle position? Is a bad breaker need to replace?
Some times gfis can trip other gfis down the line so check em all in the area even in other rooms sharing walls. In my old apartment we had an outlet in the bathroom that never worked until we found another outlet directly above it in the second floor bathroom under the sink with a tripped gfi..... Reset it and the outlet worked. Not even the maintenance people knew about it... Oh well at least it worked
Some old type BR breakers trips with handle stuck in on-position. I had few customers who did not find tripped breaker, but had no power. I just touched handle slightly it moves to tripped position (middle).
What if the gfci is old enough that when trying to see if it will fix the outlets that are out in the kitchen, the test button will not go in at all, and the reset goes in but does not click to show the reset but still has power to the gfci? *hypothetically* when this happened, I already checked the panel, tried resetting the breakers, even changed out the OG breaker for an updated one for safety and updated 2 outlets, Which was the symptom not the problem..
What if the GFCI is working but when you test it cuts the power to that section of the house? No tripped breaker? Was wondering cause my iPhone was overheating suddenly and cut the lights out to my room!
My outside GFCI tripped. I already knew what to do when that happened. I did all of the above, and it still will not work with a 3 prong plug. It only works with a 2 prong plug. When I plug in a 3 prong plug, you can hear it click again. Did I break it? How do I fix it?! l really need this outlet to work. HELP, PLEASE?! 😭🙏🏼😭🙏🏼😭
Wow watching this and knowing this is not common knowledge is really surprising. I have known all this stuff my whole life. Several decades but I was obsessed with electricity since a small child.
That looks like a Square D style breaker, they have that center toggle trip position, also can have a red/orange flag in a window to indicate a short or overload. Then people get confused when it saps back to the middle. The tan colored Cutler Hammer breakers have no trip position, just Off or On. Is this better or worse? Not really just different.
These comments are disgusting fr. Taking advantage of people by not telling them because it makes easy money. 🙄 You're meant to help people, not squeeze money from them.
Or when they use a blown light bulb. They tell me 2 other people tried it too. So 3 people screwed in the same bulb but never thought about using a different bulb! Gimme that 200 bucks!
bruh my dad had my brother in law do this shit for us and now the circuit breaker in the outlet is JAMMED like this shit wont go on or off powers out to my room can tiu tell me wtf happenned
WHEN you get a call to reset a breaker, or a GFCI recept, REPLACE IT! Either you can reset the device and make the home owner feel like a MORON, or you can replace the 'defective' device and make the owner feel better when he/she pays the bill. #CommonSenseIdeas
Because GFCIs trip at 5ma, at what current leakage do they trip in Germany ? Also in the new code most of the circuits are either protected by AFCI or GFCI, alot of people don't like em for nuisance tripping, but they do save lives
@@Hatim.13 thats quiet intresting as ive never expirienced or even heard of "nuisance tripping" however i belive here the standart is around 30mA for normal size home fuses. my appartment has a 230V 16A 30mA fuse (hager ADS916D) and the only times it tripped was when i had borken electronics connected or had oven, kettle and stove hooked up to it all at once (like 6KW total so just overcurrent) oh and ofc the one time i drilled into a wire that wasnt run accodring to german code 🤣(fairly old house) edit: just looked it up: in germany all ciruits not exeeding 16A that have a wall outlett HAVE TO HAVE a RCD with a maximum of 30mA leakage
@@mawer55555 Oh that's crazy, here we have the minimim main breaker is a 100A for apartment, and 200A for houses, 15A is the smallest breaker size and it is usually used only for small lights circuits! The new codes require almost every single circuit (including lights) to be protected by either a GFCI (RCD equivalent but with 5ma trip tolerance), or with AFCI (Arc fault detection) depends which circuits, this has significantly raised the cost of electrical panel upgrades, regular panel beeakers are like 5$ but gfci/afci breakers are like 40$ each, and combo breakers (that detect both afci and gfci) are like 80$ a pop, alot of Contractors and customers are annoyed with this. Also there is the problem that they included fridges, freezers and sump pumps (if your basement gets flooded during storms) in the GFCI protection requirements, and if you have an old appliance (like fridge or freezer) they seem to randomly trip the gfci, so if you re traveling you can comeback and find all your food rotten because the old freezer tripped the very sensitive 5ma gfci breaker/receptacle, or worse you comeback to a flooded basement and thousands upon thousands of dollars in damages because it rained heavily and the old pump motor tripped the gfci! Alot of homeowners install these protective devices to pass inspection then they replace them with regular receptacles/breakers, cause muricans would rather have an old appliance unprotected than buy a new appliance lol
@@Hatim.13 well it's 230 volt here so don't need as many Amps, also I'm currently living in a pretty small aptm. Tho even bigger aptm. often only got 25A main GFCIs and 16a per room (but ovens are usually seperat 400v circuits) Also the pump part is quiet intresting and it dose make sens to go no GFCI on those I guess Also intresting that old cheap compressors can develop leakage didn't know that before
@@mawer55555 Yeah all old inductive loads are known to be causing nuisance GFCI tripping! Have a great week-end! Btw I loved Germany, lived there for 3 years (Kaiserslautern, Aachen, Bonn), was fun!
You make jokes about them but they are the ones making 400k a year and don't have time to do this stuff and they can you whom makes about 75k a year. Think about it, l!
Judging by the wide angle view with a garage door behind him, I think this is a demo panel setup. Still, it is a nice, clean layout, no argument there!
I know electrical wiring (did a whole house rewiring at age 14 and didn’t get a single flaw; also ran telephone and thermostats). But, I went to college for computer sciences, tech major. Some of the most hilarious calls are for simple crap like turning off power strips, power strips unplugged, tripped or plugged into themselves! Also, they’d hook up everything; monitor, keyboard, mouse, network and so on, but no power cords for monitor or computer AND they had no idea where they were.
@@themega3023 Been there, done that, since the late '70s. I can totally sympathize with you, I've seen way too many "simple things" causing problems, that a little bit of knowledge and experience should have prevented.
I used to do security camera installation and service. I couldn't tell you how many times I got called to locations because someone had turned a power bar off or the power bar breaker had popped or similar things like that.
One of my favourite callouts whilst working on maintenance was someone saying their lamp wasnt working and I got there and the plug was smashed open with exposed wires everywhere, i wonder what the problem was 😂
Boy I sure am glad that you told them that the manufacture of GFCI's added a end of life chip. The new GFCI's will only reset a certain amount of times.
Good point. A GFCI protects everything downstream So if you have an outlet that's dead that's not GFCI keep looking you might have one tripped. It might even be someplace like the back porch or garage
Love these service calls. Makes for a easy day.
How about only 1 room out everything else on no breakers tripped?
@@dmo848 could be a failed connection in the circuit.
@@dmo848Mine did the same after a power outage I just reset the breaker and it got fixed
I got this 1 room that doesn’t have power to the lights in the room or hallway light. But the outlets are getting power.
@@Beall_ It’s not uncommon for the lights to be on one circuit and the receptacles be on another circuit. Try turning the circuit breaker off one at a time to see if any other lights or receptacles stop working. If they stop working, then you know that power is getting at least that far and then you could check those lights/receptacles (being sure breaker is off) to see if loose wires are the problem and everything downstream is not getting power.
Electrician here. These are actually called Ground Fault Circuit Interruptor. The work by monitoring the output voltage of the outlet and compare it with the return voltage. If the return voltage is lower than the output voltage (Mostly because of a shorted circuit) they cut of the power before the board can fry.
Your second solution just fixed my problem. I walked into my kitchen this morning and the coffee maker was out, all the outlets not powered. I started to stress. I restarted the breakers, nothing. It never occurred to me to find the gfci outlet to reset and wha-la! Issue fixed! Thanks!
This video was the most useful one I found. I unplugged everything in my house. Switch it on and off and it worked.
Did the same thing and it worked for me as well, I’m am so grateful for this video
Thank you so much!
Just save me money.. as a single person I really needed this video.
Don’t tell people this stuff. I love these calls. This morning dispatched at 7:30 so on the clock. Got there at 8:45 walked in “these outlets aren’t working since your installers were here” check the panel all good see a little sub underneath with a tripped mini, booya it’s gonna be a good day.
We are “one of those people”. You just saved us $200 with your video. Thank you. You get a well deserved like for this.
Thank you so much...I lost power to my kitchen island and the wall outlet...I just pressed the GSCI button and voila it worked!
Thanks again...
Glad I could help!
Thank you so much.
Very helpful.
You are the best!!!!! Thank you
Saved a service call. Well deserved like 👍🏼
You’re amazing life saver
Thanks for sharing 🙏 ,the video saved our night and I was able to have the fridge/freezer work again.
It’s so annoying but relieving when ppl call for tripped circuts
How do you check if a breaker is triggering under load without risking causing a fire Incase it doesn’t trigger?
I couldn't get my power back to save my life after I tripped it. I overlooked the GFI... you saved me! Thanks, bro
Those 90 degree wire bends into the breakers kill me. What an OCD thing. Labels are a nice touch for the next guy.
Every established and knowledgeable electrician does this. Article 110.12
Thank you so much. Saved me money.
Don't most people understand basic wiring/circuits/circuit breakers? I do all the work on our house, incl. electrical, plumbing, carpentry, appliances, cabinets, flooring, roofing, tiling, drywall - mud & tape, sand & paint, decking & supports, as well as landscaping, auto maint. but not all auto repairs.
Thank you so much❤❤❤❤❤
Resetting the breaker is the easiest part of the service call. The difficulty is explaining to some people why they can't plug 3 heaters on the same circuit.
Face plate screws up and down bro that’s day one stuff
Thank you 🙏😭I put taquitos in the microwave and chicken in the toaster (oven) and it overloaded 😂
Thank you!!!
Thank you for this!! I was about to put in a work order
Absolute legend, I love you bro thank you. Power randomly went out at 2am had no idea what to do
Same. Well, almost. It was 5am.
It works. Thank you🎉🎉
Nice panel
This is true AF. Also just changing a light bulb is common
Gfci requires on all island in kitchen now .
What if the outlet is supposed to have a GFCI outlet but does not? I think the GFCI tripped in my POS old house I bought and now my bathroom outlets don't work. In the breaker box there is the breaker box for the bathroom, the one with the little white button. Does that work like a regular breaker? I want my outlets back but I'm not sure how to proceed
And for a tripped breaker that keeps tripping and when reset it is easily barely hardly touched goes to the middle position? Is a bad breaker need to replace?
Some times gfis can trip other gfis down the line so check em all in the area even in other rooms sharing walls. In my old apartment we had an outlet in the bathroom that never worked until we found another outlet directly above it in the second floor bathroom under the sink with a tripped gfi..... Reset it and the outlet worked. Not even the maintenance people knew about it... Oh well at least it worked
Same over here, some RCDs that's GFI to you have the function fully flick it off then flip it back on.
Some old type BR breakers trips with handle stuck in on-position. I had few customers who did not find tripped breaker, but had no power. I just touched handle slightly it moves to tripped position (middle).
YOU SAAVED ME
What if the gfci is old enough that when trying to see if it will fix the outlets that are out in the kitchen, the test button will not go in at all, and the reset goes in but does not click to show the reset but still has power to the gfci? *hypothetically* when this happened, I already checked the panel, tried resetting the breakers, even changed out the OG breaker for an updated one for safety and updated 2 outlets, Which was the symptom not the problem..
I love that people can rent or own a house without any knowledge.
What if the GFCI is working but when you test it cuts the power to that section of the house? No tripped breaker? Was wondering cause my iPhone was overheating suddenly and cut the lights out to my room!
But what if my bathroom outlets won't work but there is no GFI reset?
My outside GFCI tripped. I already knew what to do when that happened. I did all of the above, and it still will not work with a 3 prong plug. It only works with a 2 prong plug. When I plug in a 3 prong plug, you can hear it click again. Did I break it? How do I fix it?! l really need this outlet to work. HELP, PLEASE?! 😭🙏🏼😭🙏🏼😭
Wow watching this and knowing this is not common knowledge is really surprising. I have known all this stuff my whole life. Several decades but I was obsessed with electricity since a small child.
mans a God
Thank you Joe. You are so good.
I have a gfci with a light switch. The outlets work but the light does not, what happened?
Can yah not use a breaker or plunger? I was doing electrical wiring at 8 years old
I've made a living on GFCIs.
I have a breaker that wont click over from my stove ~ can 220 outlet go bad ? And if so
tried both and my plugs still don't work! T-T
That looks like a Square D style breaker, they have that center toggle trip position, also can have a red/orange flag in a window to indicate a short or overload. Then people get confused when it saps back to the middle. The tan colored Cutler Hammer breakers have no trip position, just Off or On. Is this better or worse? Not really just different.
What about for an outlet connected to the breaker box that doesn’t have power? What’s a safe way for me to check if it a breaker issue
Dude save me some hassle and inconvenience, and some bucks!!! Thanks a ton!
I did all of this and still the lights aren’t working
Gfci
These comments are disgusting fr. Taking advantage of people by not telling them because it makes easy money. 🙄 You're meant to help people, not squeeze money from them.
Ppl actually make service calls if something in their house went out without checking the breaker box first!?!? It’s gotta be elderly women right!?!?
Most of the time, one guy I work with said his neighbor said her porch light stopped working and dude changed the light bulb and it worked.
Probably any kind of women
What can be done? People are afraid of electricity lol
@@kevinr3263 *Women ☕*
Or when they use a blown light bulb. They tell me 2 other people tried it too. So 3 people screwed in the same bulb but never thought about using a different bulb! Gimme that 200 bucks!
bruh my dad had my brother in law do this shit for us and now the circuit breaker in the outlet is JAMMED like this shit wont go on or off powers out to my room can tiu tell me wtf happenned
Sup with them plate screws?
What's a good way to charge a call like that?
WHEN you get a call to reset a breaker, or a GFCI recept, REPLACE IT! Either you can reset the device and make the home owner feel like a MORON, or you can replace the 'defective' device and make the owner feel better when he/she pays the bill.
#CommonSenseIdeas
Tysm
This issue makes me a ton of money.
You touched it, rewire the whole house under 2023 code
My GFCI was red
Easy money baby
This guy just ruined a whole day of easy service calls for me.
It's no worse than going to rest a GFI plug.
Archaic just like your plumbing
This guys charges little old ladies $250 to reset her breaker.
Shame on you.
Very helpful boss man
Screws horizontal not good
No arc fault breakers?
That'll be 100$
None of that worked for me
You people!!?? 😲😲😲
Lol pro electricians with horizontal screw slots wtf
I'm always surprised that u guys in NA only got GFCI on specific outlets instead of the full house / every flat like here in germany
Because GFCIs trip at 5ma, at what current leakage do they trip in Germany ? Also in the new code most of the circuits are either protected by AFCI or GFCI, alot of people don't like em for nuisance tripping, but they do save lives
@@Hatim.13 thats quiet intresting as ive never expirienced or even heard of "nuisance tripping" however i belive here the standart is around 30mA for normal size home fuses.
my appartment has a 230V 16A 30mA fuse
(hager ADS916D) and the only times it tripped was when i had borken electronics connected or had oven, kettle and stove hooked up to it all at once (like 6KW total so just overcurrent)
oh and ofc the one time i drilled into a wire that wasnt run accodring to german code 🤣(fairly old house)
edit: just looked it up: in germany all ciruits not exeeding 16A that have a wall outlett HAVE TO HAVE a RCD with a maximum of 30mA leakage
@@mawer55555 Oh that's crazy, here we have the minimim main breaker is a 100A for apartment, and 200A for houses, 15A is the smallest breaker size and it is usually used only for small lights circuits!
The new codes require almost every single circuit (including lights) to be protected by either a GFCI (RCD equivalent but with 5ma trip tolerance), or with AFCI (Arc fault detection) depends which circuits, this has significantly raised the cost of electrical panel upgrades, regular panel beeakers are like 5$ but gfci/afci breakers are like 40$ each, and combo breakers (that detect both afci and gfci) are like 80$ a pop, alot of Contractors and customers are annoyed with this.
Also there is the problem that they included fridges, freezers and sump pumps (if your basement gets flooded during storms) in the GFCI protection requirements, and if you have an old appliance (like fridge or freezer) they seem to randomly trip the gfci, so if you re traveling you can comeback and find all your food rotten because the old freezer tripped the very sensitive 5ma gfci breaker/receptacle, or worse you comeback to a flooded basement and thousands upon thousands of dollars in damages because it rained heavily and the old pump motor tripped the gfci! Alot of homeowners install these protective devices to pass inspection then they replace them with regular receptacles/breakers, cause muricans would rather have an old appliance unprotected than buy a new appliance lol
@@Hatim.13 well it's 230 volt here so don't need as many Amps, also I'm currently living in a pretty small aptm. Tho even bigger aptm. often only got 25A main GFCIs and 16a per room (but ovens are usually seperat 400v circuits)
Also the pump part is quiet intresting and it dose make sens to go no GFCI on those I guess
Also intresting that old cheap compressors can develop leakage didn't know that before
@@mawer55555 Yeah all old inductive loads are known to be causing nuisance GFCI tripping!
Have a great week-end! Btw I loved Germany, lived there for 3 years (Kaiserslautern, Aachen, Bonn), was fun!
Or put you out of work at the same time as getting someone killed
Can we hear the jokes? You make about us people 😜😂
No shit sherlock comes to mind
Why would you Jok3 about customers? We are the reason that you have a meal. No customers... no work!
When you have health problems these tasks are difficult. Make your jokes about us people.
You make jokes about them but they are the ones making 400k a year and don't have time to do this stuff and they can you whom makes about 75k a year. Think about it, l!
Amazing people can’t undertake figuring these two things out on their own….
There goes half of my service calls! and $150. per hour. hate these vids!!
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Man, I was about to call an electrician and decided to check youtube and found this video. Problem fixed ! Thank you so much.
Can we just take the time to admire how professionally done this panel is. Someone takes pride in their work!
Judging by the wide angle view with a garage door behind him, I think this is a demo panel setup. Still, it is a nice, clean layout, no argument there!
I know electrical wiring (did a whole house rewiring at age 14 and didn’t get a single flaw; also ran telephone and thermostats). But, I went to college for computer sciences, tech major. Some of the most hilarious calls are for simple crap like turning off power strips, power strips unplugged, tripped or plugged into themselves! Also, they’d hook up everything; monitor, keyboard, mouse, network and so on, but no power cords for monitor or computer AND they had no idea where they were.
@@themega3023 Been there, done that, since the late '70s.
I can totally sympathize with you, I've seen way too many "simple things" causing problems, that a little bit of knowledge and experience should have prevented.
Its probably code. Or the inspector is simply an AH. You don't want a gnarly rat's nest in there but it doesn't really hafta be "pretty".
All trades have those sort of calls. Love em
I used to do security camera installation and service. I couldn't tell you how many times I got called to locations because someone had turned a power bar off or the power bar breaker had popped or similar things like that.
One of my favourite callouts whilst working on maintenance was someone saying their lamp wasnt working and I got there and the plug was smashed open with exposed wires everywhere, i wonder what the problem was 😂
That distro panel gave me a stiffy. Clean af
Until you need to move something around
Small house vibes
That was a nice clean panel box
Wow standing in front of a breaker and reset it , watch arc blast video you could be eating plastic maybe blind
That is some neat breaker panel.
I hope no one sees this video. I’ve got bills.
Exactly what I was thinking.
Boy I sure am glad that you told them that the manufacture of GFCI's added a end of life chip. The new GFCI's will only reset a certain amount of times.
Really? I did not know that. I was pretty sure I know everything-jk
Don't tell em, we charge $120 service fee to reset these 🤣🤣
275$ here in PA lol
Shame on you for charging someones grandma that kind of money for resetting her breaker.
Also, gfis often cut power to anything down the line. So check them even if its not a gfi thats not working.
Good point. A GFCI protects everything downstream So if you have an outlet that's dead that's not GFCI keep looking you might have one tripped. It might even be someplace like the back porch or garage
Don’t you love it that the GfCI for the master bathroom is sometimes in the garage 🤦♂️. I know it saves a few bucks, but seriously!!!