Wire won't come off

Good to see a pool breaker up close, thanks for the vid!

Don't forget to turn your generator off. If there's a lineman who gets jeweled for failing to confirm a circuit is discharged, that is on him or her regardless of current flow direction. They're the journeymen and must do their due diligence.

Do you need to turn it off during the summer time?

This is why the breakers turn things off all over the place they just kept splicing around the house 😂 thx you saved me a huge headache.

Very nice

I’m wondering where you live, and do they require metal boxes? As an electrician, I would never use metal boxes unless required by the idiots of the jurisdiction. First of all you have to ground them ( more time) and they take more time to install. Also for your viewers, the blue boxes at the big box stores are garbage, they make black boxes ( don’t remember the manufacturer) that are a far better choice.

Thank you for sharing your knowledge.

Excellent video. Thanks!!!

This is an idea.... but then you have to do the entire house in those bigger plates, or else they look weird.

by code the switch has to be 44'' or is it acceptale 50''

Amazing information thanks....

Thank you

If you plug in a new smoke detector without turning the main breaker off.. the interior of the detector will give you a fabulous light show! It’ll still work tho, just a little disconcerting

Missed one test at the end @19:25: Check ohms ACROSS all combinations of male terminals, just to be CERTAIN that there are NO SHORT CIRCUITS. The end-to-end tests and the short-circuit tests should be performed on ANY cable that you buy, have built, or otherwise obtain. You don't want to find out there's a problem with live power energizing your cable!

NEMA (National Electrical Manufacturers Association) does not MAKE cables, but some of their members do.

It’s province specific for Canada and there is a new code since this video was released

Yet you do not mention the actual code sections.

This is exactly what I needed to know for the first half. I am doing some rough in’s for an addition to my home and putting a mini split for that room. Getting an electrician to do the rest but just want the rough in’s done good enough to pass inspection. Thank you!

Blown-in insulation has a vapor barrier????

Great vid.,Thx from Minnesota.,✨😉✨

this was extremely helpful & useful but i really wish i could see how you determined what wire goes into what hole. other than that this was pretty much what i needed

Half my kitchen stopped working didnt have a gfci outlet whatsoever Reset button on the breaker ( due to your video) then i started moving different breaker switch on and off because the main one didnt work and non of them is labeled but then bingo their it was so happy now i can go back to cooking my fries in the airfryer 👍

Too many morons making up rules these days. Are metal boxes required in Canada? That would add so much time to a job, and no, they are not better.

This guy is Canadian and the CEC doesn't allow 15 amp receptacles on 20 amp circuits. I'm assuming that they don't want people to use residential grade 15 amp receptacles as shown here, otherwise it doesn't make sense. BTW, 80% of 15 amps is 12 amps or 1440 watts. IMO, you are better off with a 15 amp commercial spec grade receptacle because only a 15 amp plug can be used and the appliance, if in good condition, would only need 1800 watts maximum. 15 amp duplex receptacles are rated for 20 amp pass through (total of downstream and plugged in loads). An appliance with a 20 amp plug could, in theory, require 2400 watts, potentially tripping breakers when used on a shared circuit, assuming in these examples that the appliance manufacturer ignores the 80% rule. For this reason, 20 amp appliances with a 20 amp plug are required to be on an individual branch circuit and the receptacle would be a single 20 amp, not a duplex.

What if you don’t have a pipe. I have a meter on the side but then nothing. It goes straight from the meter into the house into a breaker box. I don’t even have a main breaker either. I just have a bunch of small ones that have 2 switches with 30 on them. Then I have a double with 30 and a double with 40.

Horizontal panel are allowed in Nova Scotia!

thanks! helped

Thanks. My alarm was driving me crazy

Hi , are You In USA or canada?

sideways mounted panel does not meet code and should not be done. vertical only.

thank you

Its a wonder NYC hasn't gone up like Chicago did with all the extension cords. If that fire gets in the walls.

Thanks for the simple and straightforward explanation on the interconnect wire........You made it easy to understand.

Need a little explaining. In the first example, the fire is started in the rag pile using a “rinky dink” extension cord powering multiple high draw appliances. Check. But in the second example the extension appears to be a higher quality power strip and the fire is initiated in the wall plug, not the power strip or the cable. Isn’t the primary problem is that you’re drawing 28 amps through a 15 amp socket? Would the same result happen if the power strip were replaced with a suitable heavy duty extension cord?

Yikes!!

I feel like there is far more headroom than I realized. Still definitely want to make sure things are right. Given most of us live in tinderboxes.

I think this does a good job at showing how ridiculous you have to push things past spec before they fail. If your causing electrical fires from overloading the wire, you shouldn't be working on your own stuff. Like

Great information in the video for DIY'ers thinking about "adding power". But a real wall fire would not have a completely exposed back side, hence the oxygen available would be limited in real construction and would take significantly longer than the video. Building codes add precious time to escape and are designed to keep the fire to a smoky smolder rather than a raging fire like at the end of the video. 1/2 drywall alone is rated to 30 minutes. That means this fire would be oxygen deprived for up to (and most likely very close to) 30 minutes before it would break through the drywall and get oxygen and begin to grow and look like the end of the video. Its possible it could self-extinguish. The 2x6 blocking is rated to 60 minutes so the drywall is the weak point. For example, this is why modern codes require drywall finishing under staircases, even in basements. It gives you like 5 times the amount of time to escape out of what might be your only exit. A wall with a plexiglass sheet on the "viewing" side and fireblocking foam on the cable entry points would better simulate a real wall, up until the plexiglass melts. Best I can think of is a sheet of borosilicate glass but that would be hundreds of dollars.

So this is Ada and building code requirements in Canada? Not NEC code requirement?

Thanks for sharing your knowledge.

Thanks for sharing your knowledge.

The insulation kept the heat in and let the heat soak into the wood whereas the cords were in open air, outside near to the ground and could draw cool air onto and convect away from them - IR cameras are great for showing issues like this. If a fuse is overloaded it will show hotter than the rest or damaged wire will be hotter at the damage

informational

Thanks for sharing your knowledge.

So scary, always use a licensed electrician!

Thanks alot for your all videos. Good stuff.

Awesome video plz make a vid on conductor stapler with canadian codes..some inspector here have their own versions, 2 wires, 3 wires etc

I dont use any of those heights in Ca