I love watching your troubleshooting videos. You get right into it, explain in detail what happened and you have a nice flow to your work. I'm not even an electrician but did home improvements for years and I've always found electrical work fascinating. You got a new subscriber.
Thomas thank you really appreciate. Some customers dont like that I'm fast at what I do. They expect me to spend 4 hours researching but it takes me 1hour.
@@unitedtradesmanacademy1894 Some don't realize the amount of training and dedication, tools, money etc... that enables you to be efficient. That's what they're paying you for. Not how long you were there. Plus, they couldn't fix it if they worked on it for a week. They should be happy it's fixed. A lot of people bash trades people. I've had my share too. But we're the ones that fix their screw ups. A little gratitude would be nice. I hope your channel really grows. You hustle my man. Good for you! All the best.
Love you work brother and on this video I feel you missed some opportunities to further educate. "Job complete" - system restored (panels/covers installed), testing complete (paper work signed if needed), dirt off the floor. This makes the "Broom Pusher Guy" integral to job completion. Trouble shooting techniques - half splitting, sesame street test, one problem - many symptoms....and more. Again, I love the videos. Please keep up the great work helping other. Thanks.
Great video once again.I swear,as soon as you opened up that first outlet and I saw what I saw there,I immediatetly thought to myself "This is a remodel/handyman/homeowner special" lol
I know you're getting some hate but F that noise bro. AFCI has become a nightmare for us. We have spent over 2k in washing machines in our new house from 2020 because the afci keeps tripping for no fucking reason. The first washer failed after nuisance tripping and now our 2nd washer has some sort of error issue we have to fix because the breaker keeps tripping. I am sure the AFCI is ruining my equipment and the electrician cannot find any reason why. He is frustrated because he wants to put a regular breaker in and can't. He said according to the manufacturer I need to buy ANOTHER fucking washing machine instead of addressing their AFCI garbage. Our first machine worked for a year in our old home with regular breakers and never tripped once while waiting for house to be finished. The AFCI killed it from tripping within the first month of moving in. It trips every 5 or 6 loads so I don't think it's the washer. My electrician also said there is rumors floating around of the code changing so that the main breaker for the whole house might have to be AFCI. He said good luck finding an issue when it kills the whole house. I say good luck with it not killing all of your equipment in the house. Oh and for those who screaming about safety. How many millions of homes in the North American continent that was built before AFCI code exsisted are around and are fine? How many critical electricians have immediately RAN OUT to ALL of their in-laws, parents, grandparents, uncles, aunts and cousins houses to immediately re-wire all of their houses and change them over to AFCI because of the SAFETY factor they are so concerned about? I am willing to bet most of them are living in houses with standard breakers! I say until they do that ... They are hypocrites.
You wanna' see loose connections...when I began working in the late 60's the use of aluminum wiring was rampant. Aluminum shrinks in plain regular atmosphere. So loose connections was an everyday occurance. So much so that homes were burning on a regular basis. Use of penetrox was implemented to help avoid future issues. And that is penetrox on the outlet connections as well as the panel side. And if you found one such on a call, all had to be done. Your service call could wind up taking days to complete. One loose circuit in a 50+ year old panel is mere child's play to an experienced electrician like me. Most of the aluminum wiring issues have since been resolved, one way or the other, by now. Thank heavens. I remember one service call in a home in suburban Washington DC back in 1977 where wire running from a service disonnect to and electric furnace was glowing red in the furnace closet. It looked like a toaster. And luckily it hadn't set fire yet. I think that was around the time that aluminum wire in low amp circuits was outlawed. Still in use by the power company or in large size runs though.
Nice work , you were very fortunate to find the loose neutral ! you know a lot of the times it ain't that easy! I couldn't get over the way they stuffed the romex in the panel! That really needs to be redone correctly ! maybe you could give them a quote on redoing it.
My mom's microwave outlet measures 12 0 have to ground and 37 volts from neutral to hot. I switched the outlets to see if it was that but It measured the same . At one point it did register 120 from hot to neutral and I tried to reconnect the outlet to the box and it went back to 37 volts from hot to neutral. When I connect the circuit tester It shows hot ground reversed but the outlet was wired correctly. I did not see the wires touching in the box so I should check the main breaker? And also that same breaker connects to the living room but it checks out fine with the circuit tester
So if you show low voltage that’s a neutral issue ? Again get the Klein 450 tracer you won’t regret it could have just plugged it into the problem outlet disconnected that burnt neutral and 100 located it just in case that wasn’t the issue u could then tell them you repaired soso wire which controlled a specific area
I am just a rando, I watch your vid to fix my gcfi problems, instead of messing around and opening up outlets, the first thing i check now is the panel, if there is power , i move the the nearest gcfi and test it
Yeah, that is Mesquite. I know the house. I can give you the history and what you got wrong about the remodel. That house was built in 2001, no drywall was redone or wiring moved. Most of that was untouched work from the builders in 2001. Things that changed with the electrical over the years were an outlet was removed for an island that was removed in the kitchen, and there was a sub panel that was added for a large building in the backyard, then removed. That sub standard work passed multiple inspections and someone obviously should have gone through at some point and tightened up the screws. That gfci was never moved, that's exactly where it was and how it was wired since it was a new build.
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Maybe I am a total novice but looking at receptacles and touching the meter leads to some point and not telling you want to look for or the purpose of the test is not useful for a new DIY.
"...not having the proper inspection when the house was purchased". Have you ever had an inspector check the inside of breaker panel during a home inspection for possible faulty circuits??? Try NOT, NO, NEVER. That panel looks like it's 50 years old. The discoloration of the bus bars indicates it was around for many years. One wire not tightened down all the way on the neutral side is NOT indicative of "shady" workmanship. Sorry, buddy, been around for too many years to bite on that jive. Perhaps in your classroom experience where everything is clinical and pristine the perfect world exists. It's a loose wire. Nothing more, nothing less. Heating due to resistence is the result. Fix it and stop condemning a 50+ year old panel install. If it worked this long it isn't shady. I see nothing unusual other than the loose wire. Perhaps repeated over-amping the circuit heated and shrank the wire in the connector. Who knows? Fix it and move along. Nuff said.
