Whirlpool does the same thing, trips the range when the oven is used

Still a good practice when making splices in outdoor boxes or enclosures. Particularly pole lights. Umbrellas, not buckets 🤓

Hey Mike now day the electrical suppliers sells split bushing 😁

There are old pilots and bold pilots there are no old bold pilots, gotta have you around Mr. Holt!

Now if the NEC could enforce the appliance delivery companies to require some sort of electrical education that would be great. Separating the G and N has been a thing with 4 wire for a min. Now with GFCI protection you can't get around not doing it. Constant service calls for this. Only good thing is getting paid to remove the G strap.

Neanderthals didn't have to deal with NEC or AHJs

I Like the history behind this

For those with common sense make them face up.

I would have liked to see the list of manufacturers instructions. I have a GE PowerMark Gold that I am buying.... and 2/0-2/0-2/0-1 Aluminum SER Service Entrance Cable .

Thank you for these videos and thank you for the excellent educational books. I've purchased several and they are amazing.

What do we do now....? Of course we take our dikes?We snip that insulated bushing then bend it like a curly fry and put it around the conductors turning the cut edge towards the back and no one's wiser to it and everyone's happy 😅

Thanks Mike 😊

I'm in the hooood Mike...referring you to my African and Spanish American brothers they love your style of teaching.Thank You Thank You..your love for the Trade and Teaching..comes through..

Anything against putting one in anyway?

You are awesome, Mike. People should care that you share your knowledge and clarify the code. It's appreciated to those that want to learn or to keep learning. Keep up the good work! 🫵👍🤙

Recognizing a "Tribe" leader is crucial, he or she will have you fired before you get a chance to defend yourself, even if you are right....your still fired. I hate those type of dinosaurs. Destroy lives over their ego.

Code is written in blood

At the time of this video it had been 39 years and not 29 years as you said that the NEC required aluminum alloy for wiring. Just for the sake of being correct, since that’s what’s important.

Terminals on the LINE side are NOT "cups" that can accumulate moisture. Those wire nuts facing DOWN become "cups" and moistire will form and fill up. By having the wire nuts face UP, no moisture will fill in and if it does, it will drip down. As a lineman for Telecom, when we use splice connectors, we face them UP so that moisture does not form in them as they face down.

It's important to note anything smaller then #4 needs to be green or white, you can't re-identify. Anything 4 or larger you can tape/paint/etc anything permanent really.. remeber wire assemblys like NM cable you can re-identify for switching purposes etc.

So many guys still dont know this. Great video!!

The other reason to do it with the nuts up, as if for any reason they not becomes loose from expansion, contraction, seismic movement or whatever it hopefully won’t fall off and leave and open bare connection

Electricians always do it with their nuts up 😝

B phase does not have to be identified in this system! Thanks mike were learning 😂

Thanks mike!

Unfortunately not followed here, supply stores don't even stock #6 white THHN. So you can buy online for $$$ or commit a knowing, expensive to fix violation hoping your inspector likes you.

I have seen 14 awg white wires marked with black tap designating a hot wire. I will have to find that in the code to see where that is allowed.

So it sounds like a 14awg black wire marked with white can’t be used as the neutral. The entire length of the wire has to be white because it is a wire smaller than 6awg.

Notice the anti-oxide paste on the aluminum wire on the right. Guess a dinosaur installed it.

There Is no one better than Mike Holt when it comes to explaining the NEC. Thanks to him I'm certified

When would you need to put two conductors under one breaker???

How did dryer manufacturers.get away with using a bare ground wite to provide power to the 120 volt motor, drum lights & timer for over 60 years. Sure it would cost them less then $10 to install a 240 to 120 volt control transformer for controls and save three times that at least not having to use 10/3 cable & more expensive 4 wire 30 smp 250 bolt receptacle.

Like your SHORTS. Don't take it the wrong way Not that there's anything wrong with that

That looks like “UF”

Let's talk about the phase tap next to the neutral conductor..

Marley Shores

I wonder according to art. 406.4D 2b with a GFCI requirement anyway, could you install a NEMA 14-30 receptacle without an equipment grounding conductor (if one isn't available in the receptacle box. Would that be to code?

Love all of your content! Super helpful

I would want them up due to gravity.. over time the nut may fall off.. imho

Orang wire on neutral bar?

I was an appliance repair guy for Sears. Yep, Mike is absolutely correct. Very interesting to learn the history of grounding and WWII. Thank you Sir.

Make it a bit longer

here in europen the manufacturers of the brakers will also give a table with the selectivity of the brakers froma certain type of product, starting from the smallest to the biggest in that type, and the relation between them. u will get a table of the values of the current foult for witch, let say a 16A braker it will trip before a 25A or 32A and so on ..

so if its frozen is it a dry location ?

Common sense rules! Besides, the main breaker in that panelboard is rated 200A. Therefore, the feed-through conductors would only need to be sized to carry that load (obviously, no smaller), and any larger would not be required - UNLESS perhaps, the feed-through conductor run was VERY long [to the residence sub panel], in which case up-sizing might be advantageous, to prevent excessive voltage drop under load... I have run into this very scenario a few times here in Texas, where for example, the main/utility-drop panel was located at a barn or other outbuilding, and the house was several hundred feet away and utilizing undergroud feeders. In such cases, I will up-size the residence feeders. Anyway, always great stuff Mike! Thanks!

Hi, so if my pvc condouit is from the kitchen wall to a island , can I use Romex?

Had this same issue the other day. I have a 12×12 metal box surface mounted to stucco. I made a raceway with a 2" nipple that acts a transition point from drywall to the back of the pullbox keeping the romex dry. Inspector said I need to make my splicing inside the drywall?

What’s the Romex feeding ? If it’s installed in a rigid conduit how’s moisture going to affect it ? I’m more concerned with the ground conductor not being insulated ? Thanks.

Yup… spot on Mike and that you used the code book to illustrate. Spot on my brother.