8 videos later, I find this video; the only video that solved the problem! I also could have listened to my wife, who has zero electrical experience. It was “just a feeling.” Thank you again! And men, let’s listen to our wives a little more
I just spent 2 hours losing my mind because the words on the new outlet are upside down and I wasn't paying attention when I turned it around to put the wires again... 2 damn hours! Thank god I found this video because I was getting so frustrated.
Fucking great, I didn't know why the newly installed gfci was not working at all, I had power coming (yes, I got shocked like 5 times) but couldn't figure out the problem until I watched your video. Switched the wires and voila, solved.
This fixed my issue as well. Thought I just bought a bad GFCI but when the second one did the same thing I knew something was up, just didn't know what that something was. Thanks to this video I was able to swap the lines and it worked just fine. Thanks !
Thank you!!!! I replaced the GFCI myself but when there was no power, I was ready to give up and call an expensive electrician - RU-vid to the rescue!!! Everything working fine now! What a relief! 😊
Can't thank you enough!! Nearly drove myself crazy trying to figure out what I did wrong. Switched the wires from bottom to top and top to bottom, and replaced my first GFCI outlet!
Thank you, i just installed a new onw and could not figure out why it wasn't working until this video, switched the two black wires and works great now.
30 minute job turned into a whole weeks trying to figure it out. Had a couple guys help me simply install a few new outlets in the office of a building we are remodeling. Turn the main breaker off replaced all the outlets, the same way we took them off. Installed all the covers. Turned on the breaker with no power.. we installed the 20 outlets I didn’t know where to start so I pulled them all out. All the wiring was correct and uniform. Electricians were installing LEDs in the building. They checked it out they were stumped. Opening all the junction boxes, it was a mess. Until I saw this video. 😅
Thank you for this... Why in the name of God would the manufacturer do this? I specifically bought the same part number from the same manufacturer... And then they arbitrarily swap everything! Wtf!
How helpful! Who's gonna notice that yellow tape across the terminals on the new one? Thank God for this video! Probably prevented thousands of casualties; injuries and/or death. 😮 😂
Wow!?!? I am so glad I seen this video.. A million things came over my head, I started panicking when it didn’t want to work. I’m glad I took pictures before removing the old GFCI. All I had to do was flip my wires just like you mention in the video!.thank you!
I just finished installing electricity to my garage and installing a GFCI outlet and all the words were also upside down so I just put it with the ground hole facing up lol.. made more sense that way to me anyways
I installed as instructed with two different gfci and both failed test. Its a brand new line and the ground wire is attached with another ground in the breaker box. What could be going on. Its a 20 amp line.
I put them in proper, worked ... found 2 outlets before the gfci, eliminated one, now the gfci isnt working .. . Weird. Will be there tomorrow to look into it.
They were forced to put a few of these in my new shop building in order to get power hooked up. Even though the building has no water. The problem is that on a 15 amp breaker, about 80% of the time my saw will trip the GFCI. The real problem is that when my wife and I were out of town for a week there was an interruption in our power and, though the power came back on, All of the GFCI outlets tripped, and two of them were connected to a freezer. We lost a lot of food. My solution. Removed and replaced with normal outlets. Problems solved.
Is the lil green light supposed to always be on on the plugs. Cuz I swapped my old one to new one nd it’s constantly on doesn’t turn off, I have no problems getting power just curious about that? I put copper wire to bottom green screw, white wire to silver screw and black to copper/nickel screw. Ty
I have an issue like this. The gfci outlet works, but the regular outlet on that gfci blows the breaker Everytime something is plugged into it Would this be the same issue as in this video? I'd my entire house reqired, but the one outlet didn't work, unfortunately electrician had moved out of state by the time I'd noticed.
I swapped my gfci, and it's green and works but now lost power to two of my 5 outdoor outlets, and the other two are ground neutral on my tester. Any suggestions?
Sounds like you connected the 'load' wires incorrectly. The load wires are the ones that feed the downstream outlets, I would start there, pull the GFCI out and make sure you have it hooked up correctly
Didn’t identify colors of line and load. You’re “gunna-wanna” x 3 love it! Also, if you don’t tell me the color codes I need to watch another video. But thanks for the old/new comparison. It would also be helpful to know about when the wiring change took place. Which decade would even be helpful.
There is no color code. Most homes are wired with white and black wires. But you may have a red wire in there there's no way to know how yours is specifically wired up, you just need to get the line with the line and the load with the load
No the black and white wires go together. The black to the hot side and the white to the neutral. There will be two sets of wires, each set will have a white and a black. One set is the load and one set is the line
@@handymanjourney so if you only have 1 white wire and 1 black wire they are both to be connected to the Line for each wire and never the Load? Mine won’t work - bought 2 new ones and won’t reset and only see faint red light no green light at all- thanks
Load brings in electricity from the beaker line brings the electricity to another outlet nearby, like a fridge, a oven, the gcfi will stop any shortages and cut off electrical power to both outlet
Current GFCI has white and black on load, I want to run a new plug, so I plugged my new wire in the white and black on line (on my current gfci) and ran a new outlet, and plugged in the white and black on line on the new outlet, but it has no power? Help!
As you may know by now the black and white wires on the line side go where the outlet says line . But yes one black and white wire on top and one black and white on bottom.
Ok sorry but i try all diferente way and still don't work the Green light is on but no power !!!! So explain please rhe two white whe they are going now ??
I swear the electricians organization that sets standards deliberately made this change at some point to get an extra $10k/year in house calls for their fellow electricians. A lot of frustrated DIY guys who can't understand why it won't work when they think they rewired the new one exactly like the old one.
Something still has to be wrong. I would say if it's tripping it's probably wiring correctly. Make sure all the blacks are on one side and all the whites are on the other side
@@handymanjourney i have the inlet power on the top (line) and the outlet power (load) on the bottom, all whites are on same side and blacks are on the same. The previous gfci outlet just went out but before that it worked great for years. Am i overlooking something?
@@handymanjourney figured it out. The outlet wired after the gfci was burnt up in the wall causing the short. Got them all swapped out with new and everything now has power. Thanks again
In this situation just switch the wires and then make sure they are labeled/taped black for hot (gold screw) and white for neutral (the silver screw). Everyone gives advice as if every home is wired with standard Romex or correctly. Always make sure you’ve correctly identified each wire regardless of color. Use a multimeter to be sure. Then do your best to color things correctly once you’ve identified them, will make things easier in the future. Leaving this comment to help the next amateur on the path to self sufficiency.
@cnemelue Thank you so much for your response. The information you provided is very helpful and so kind of you. Your kindness helps make the world a better place for me. Thanks again for sharing your knowledge.
Seems like your speaking chinese...here's how to explain..a black may be load or power and white be no power or line..therefore to correctly connect a gfi.. put the black on load and white in line..persay..not just showing a model diff!!!
