Testing House Outlet with Multimeter---Easy!! 

Thank goodness I found this video! I’m a 50 yr old woman with zero experience with this stuff. I’m single and tired of paying or asking for help so I’m learning to do this stuff for myself so I can teach my daughter and grand daughter to be self sufficient. You tube has helped me do things I never thought possible! Thank u so much for making this video slow and perfectly explained. 😁

Very nice job super clear started off a bit slow but then dude got warm and finished HOT!

THANK YOU for explaining this step by step. Some of the other videos don't even explain how to set up the multimeter correctly. Great job explaining all of this for us beginners.

This video was exactly what I have been searching for!! The clear way you describe every detail as you go through the steps eased all the anxiety, fear, and frustration built up over the years regarding testing testing anything with my volt meter other than batteries! I now have the confidence to go test my outlets! Other videos explain how to do things but usually leave out many small details and I think that is because it is assumed that the viewer already has knowledge of electricity beyond flipping light switches and plugging things in … which I do not. I read a comment from a woman who said she had always thought the larger slot of the plug-in was the positive side and I laughed! But I laughed because I have always believed the same thing!! You are now my hero because you obviously know your audience and I am very grateful and thankful to you for taking your time and making the effort to share your knowledge in the way you do. I will click the ‘follow’ and return many times in the days and months to come now that I found you! God Bless you! From a new fan on San Juan Island, Washington state.

WELL DONE SIR. thank you. No giggly camera and simple straightforward explanations. Tackling old plumbing is one thing - no room for error with electricity.

I come back to this video once in a while because it is a long time in between testing my outlets. Thank you so much for your clear and easy to understand explanation! God bless you for your patient style of teaching!

Thank you so much for repeating the important instructions. This video is easily one of the best out there explaining the connection + voltmeter setup. Thanks!

Thank goodness I found him as I am a 52 year old woman who knows nothing about this and now I do and can try it. 😊

Great Electrical Video! Will save me several trips to my Apartment Breaker Box! Heck, I thought the big slot on an outlet was the positive hot one because it was definetly the biggest! You finally gave me the balls to finally stick my voltometer, which I've had in my toolbox for over 15 years, into a wall outlet receptacle. Prior to your cool ecture, I was only using my voltometer to check the remaining power of my aaa and aa 1.5 batteries!

Best one yet! Shows just what you need to know on how to test a 120 line with a voltage meter

This is the best video on the use of the volt meter to test home outlets I've seen!

Thank you! You are a good teacher. I'm confident to use a multimeter now with no fear of getting zapped.

Great video man. Clear and to the point without getting lost in the weeds. My wife and children thank you.

Excellent video! Great explanations, clear and precise descriptions of steps and readings...very, very, good!!! A wonderful exposition. Just goes to show you that ppl can make great presentations without needless graphics!

You made the very best video about how to use the multimeter! I cannot tell you how much I appreciate you! It is EXACTLY what I was looking for! Great teacher, stay blessed🤩😇

Thank you for teaching me how to use my multimeter! I have had one for a while but no real knowledge of how to use it properly. You made it easy. Now I just need to figure out why I don’t have power to my bathroom outlet. I thought my gfi plug was bad but I replaced it and still no joy. Thanks again.

Best explanation so far! Thank you from a homeowner single mom fixing on a budget:)

Absolutely the best explanation I have ever seen someone do to make it easy for a 2 year old to understand what they are talking about. Not really I was just being sarcastic on the 2 year old part lol. I have been trying to find a video just like this one for hours tonight and when I said lord help me understand what I’m doing here because I’m going to try to figure it out one probe at a time and pray that I don’t end up like the KFC extra crispy tonight 😂. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us and making it so much easier to learn and understand your explanations. Absolutely amazing work 👏👏🙏🙏❤️❤️

You really explain things extremely well. I appreciate it.

Only video I have seen that really explain how to get the job done right thanks...

Thanks for this video! I saw sooo many other videos on the same subject that just assumed I knew all the terminology. You explained it for a true beginner. Thanks!

Thoroughly presented. Covering a safety actions as well. Thank you

I appreciate your video so much! Respectfully, and with appreciation, that symbol between the V and the ma is the capital form of the greek letter Omega and represents Ohms. The lower case represents angular resistance. I had to look that up. I knew the name of the letter but not what it meant. You are a really great teacher and just saved me money I don’t have and now I can fix my outlet. May the blessings return to you in whatever way you may need.

Nice simple easy-to-understand instructions for a novice like me. Good job.

I wish I would have watched this one first. Thank you.

This was very Informative. I was recently told, you don’t need to check both outlets if you check one. Supposedly, there’s a small metal bracket that connects on the inside so that hot I will be the same.

Great job !! The way you explained and demonstrated this is very concise yet easy to understand. Thank You !!

You fine sir, have made the best video I've been able to find on RU-vid on how to properly use a multimeter! Very clear! I've watched so many and been afraid to try it until now... Building a house after a fire and my chargers are heating up... Hoping they put the wiring in right!

You did a GREAT job with this video. I really liked how you spoke slowly and your pace was fabulous, along with really good video! Thank you so very much!

Thank you!! I was trying to help my neighbor with her wiring project. I really appreciate you explaining this.

That zoom in on the dial was clutch, Thank you.

Thank you for explaining things extremely good. I appreciate it a lot and for not having music in the background.

Great easy straight to the point vid. Just what I needed to find out how many working or nonworking outlets i have in this old 1950'2 house .

Fantastic. I'm hanging new sheet rock. Have to change out some outlets. These step by step instructions are what I needed.

Thank you. Very thorough and understandable. Don't understand why other videos say to test on ohms.

Fantastically simple and thorough explanation!

This video was great. You answered the questions that I am sure that everybody wanted to know about receptacles.

Very well explained you have a good knowledge of electricity and measurements I used to do it wrongly and not understand what I was doing.

Finally a clear video. Thanks for telling us how to set the multimeter. Thumbs up.

Thank you so much bro! I’m in a new house hanging up lights for my lady and I found out the outlet is using is burnt out! This helps!!!

Love this video. You repeated all the safety stuff enough times I got it. Which takes longer with me. A guy who's been hand digging 20 years. I don't ever think anymore. So repetition is so important to a master and using a shovel. Lol. The guy who needs it but won't hear it till it's said 3, 4, 5 times. First I heard the long line on the wall socket is the ground. Then I heard you say again it's not. Went back and checked. Lol. I caught it because you repeated it two more times before I realized I was switching the two. All in one video. Very nice. The stuff written on the toolsweek website left questions. The video answer them all. When I first looked up, "how to test ground with multimeter," tools week came up first. I could tell immediately you knew what you were talking about. But the writing was so short and sweet I left it confused. Specifically the voltage test. Starts saying, "Take out the connections," which left me thinking, "which connections? And does he mean disconnect them? Till I watched the video I was about to connect my multimeter to both sides of the battery. I gotta thank you for being very repetitive about the safety stuff. In writing and in the video. Electricity frightens me much. I been digging 20 years with a shovel. Almost hit big volt lines more than once. I'm talking solid hits. With digging bars. That break conduit. Digging pet graves unmarked in places where the a boulder or something put lines where they'd have never been start to finish. Lucky I ain't dead 3 times over before I learned that you gotta get marks going 4ft deep. 2ft? I'm betting I'll survive anything I hit. And lines follow the part of the the bird 999 times out of a 1000 I'd say. I do sprinkler system service. Just got electrocuted by a low voltage line. Which I thought wasn't possible. It was not a pleasant experience. Lol. Shit

just wanted to say i appreciate you for this video because i watched three videos before watching yours and this one was the most informative. you made it plain and simple. 🤜🏼🤛🏼

this video explains this sooo easy. I looked at other video's and they were to complicated . Thanks guy for posting this !!!

got 117 reading out of my socket, guess that's close enough nothing is perfect except for your demonstration (thankx)

Thank you so much. Had no idea what I was doing after all and kept getting like 1 or 2 volts only from the outlet. Was doing it completely wrong and you explained it so well!!

Very helpful. I didn't have a clue what I was doing until I watched this. Thanks.

Thanks for the clear instructions, and for showing everything close-up and well-lit!

Thanks for the video, I had one of those auto multimeters that supposedly showed you which way to connect the probes. It would always tell me incorrectly and it would just arc. This video fixed my issue. Thankfully I didn’t fry my meter, it just fried the probe end.

I want you to be my teacher .... you explained this in terms and language I understand... thank you for the break down and teaching.

Thanks for creating and sharing this video . 👍 Very, very helpful. I am a novice, so I am new to all of this. Thumbs up. 👍 You did a great job explaining.

Thank you sir, this is exactly what I needed to see.

Clear instruction with only the good stuff. Thank you for making this fantastic and helpful video!

You are a great teacher...easy to understand without. Thanks

I am from India ... I Don't under stand English properly ... but i support you bro 💯.

This was a great explanation. I appreciate your thoroughness, and very detailed steps. It was also very helpful to see the multimeter labels clearly. Thank you for making this!

Thank you so much for your help, you explained it simply and easy to understand. I have no knowledge of electrical and afraid I'd shock the heck out of me! 👍👍😁

With as many vids as I've watched on how to use a multi meter I've finally found the perfect demo..we'll done sir..btw my problem is I have 6 outlets showing open ground on one of those little 3 prong testers..I'll let u know the outcome 😏

Thank you so much for this. I have zero electrical knowledge and this got me on the right track.

Thanks. Straight forward, easy to understand explanation, and nice, clear video.

Thanks explained it better than anyone else has.

Absolutely beautiful tutorial! You explained everything so well! It makes so much sense now! Thanks! 🎉

This is such a great video. Thank you for sharing. I can now test my outlets with confidence

Thank you for the informative and straight business video. This was just what I needed.

Sir, you are an excellent teacher❤. Thank you so much🙏

Thank You So much!!!!! I was about to return my multimeter but it works fine, after following your detailed video. Thank You, Kindly!!

You are a great teatcher. Very good video sir. Thank you so much

Good video. Just got my first multi meter and this helpled me get started

Thank you for this clear, well presented tutorial!

GREAT EXPLANATORY VIDEO - APPRECIATED

Thank you! Easy to understand, and very helpful. I'm fixing' to go get me a multimeter right now.

very well done. Clear and to the point from start to finish.

I’m Hispanic DIY.. great explanation amigo!

Exactly what I was looking for. Plain and simple thank you.

Thank you for taking the time to share your knowledge with us! ❤️

Nice video! It doesn’t matter what color lead you use first on AC, but it does matter on DC.

I appreciate the knowledge my man.

Thanks.... it was just the information I was looking for. I want to check my new Back Up Generator and I wasn’t sure how to set my Multi Meter. .... UDB Man 👏👏👏👏

Thanks my man, you made this easy for the DIY homeowner like me! Very simple and informative!!!

Thank you! You probably just saved my life

Thank you, very very easily explained and just what I needed. So many videos do not explain as you did.

Thank you! Very clear and simply explained!👍

I SO appreciate this video! You made it simple for me & I am grateful. I wired it wrong Your video helped me see that.

Glad I watched this. It's nerve-wracking putting anything in an outlet. I had the wires backwards so I'm glad I watched this. I tried it on a normal outlet but damn it makes me nervous. I have to check my 220V dryer outlet. Same concept?

Man,. I appreciate your video. Save me problems. Thank you!!

Thank you so much, I watched a few videos before I found this one and this one worked best!

Thank you. You are a great teacher.

Best video on the internet thanks

Good video but you should try to hold the probes with one hand so the electricity can’t pass through you if something goes wrong.

Thank you so much for walking it step by step.

Thank you! I'm headed to do my first walk thru on our new home!

Good info to know. Most people have no idea how to use a Multimeter. I have to review these videos myself once in a while. I just watched a 30A vs 50A RV post video.

Great video. And commentary well spoken. I once put my red lead in first to the "hot" then touched something and arc welded my other lead...good times! (not)

Dude spent half the video repeating “make sure you have it….and make sure you have yo probe plugged into…” then it’s commercial time lol😂

I thought I knew this stuff....THIS is a great Video!

Thanks, you covered everything and emphasized the right points for safety. Appreciate it

Thanks bro very good instructional video just checking to see if Outlets are grounded right so I could ground my bed that I sleep on God bless😅

Much appreciated bro. Simple and easy to understand. thank you

Awesome, an easy step by step tutorial

Very nice explanation sir thanks so much

ty for making mm understandable & checking outlet easy