Installing a UK type G socket in a US building (abandoned psych ward)

[@Ace00633]

i think this is the safest outlet in the entire building, because you cant Plugin shit in it.

[@j.w2000]

But you can plug two pin french plugs in with a screwdriver in the earth pin to disengage the shutters on the live and neteral then plug in the french plug and you're good to go! I live in the uk so I know that hack works lol

[@jess.hawkins]

As a Brit, I'm pleased you've chosen our most-safest plug in the world for your old Psych Hospital! :D

[@jake_dev1046]

As a UK Electrician, that is nothing like the sockets we have over here the only similarity is where the plugs go

[@kellymarieangeljohnson114]

You should label that as only giving 120 volts just in case a future visitor thinks its a 240 volt socket. European sockets are usually 2 round pins with an earth strip as well although east europeans dont generally bother with earthing.

[@ShaneL295]

Don't tell the county inspector about the one I've got installed in my kitchen for a proper quick-boil UK kettle.

[@Boromoro]

i just watched 8 minutes of outlet instalation and i loved it! Keep up the good work and vids!

[@GarretClaridgeMeerkat]

lol not tripped --- braaaaapppp

[@TechnologicalHeritage]

Yooooo Garret! Longtime fan of yours right here, I was actually the camera operator for this video haha! Cool to see you following along with this craziness.

[@GarretClaridgeMeerkat]

@@TechnologicalHeritage Oh man dope! this building is insane haha

[@terranceleedrums]

I just sat on my bed under the covers watching these videos for hours just to land here on a wtf is going on here moment 😂😂😂 thanks for the entertainment. Now that I’m fully invested in seeing where this building ends up, can’t wait to see what’s next!

[@benjaminwallace4626]

I could spend hours there doing electrical work. 😂😂 that place looks like my dream hobby project

[@andydelle4509]

1) Why? If you have a British appliance that is multi-voltage, just cut the British plug off and install an American plug. Even if it's 240 only you can install an American 240 outlet like a 6-15 or a 6-20. Even Home Depot and Lowes stocks these. The existing neutral can be re-marked as the second hot and moved to a 240v breaker. Perfectly legal to do that. 2) Decora plates need the screws shortened where there is no wall board. Your stripping tool usually has a screw cutter built in. 3) Your 240v in that building may actually be 208v. Depends on the 3 phase service, high leg Delta (legacy) or Wye.

[@22kbut]

And that folks, is why you don't put a British socket in a US building.

[@GOPRepubliklan]

As soon as you get water, can you do a toilet special where you go around and flush them all and then recruit enough people to flush them all at the same time?

[@XeroZenith]

Sure thing!

[@WarrenTheSpark]

Need to buy some uk plugs now lad haha

[@christianherald]

what you do now is... be safe, you are now safe. Wait, do the plugs have individual fuses? Don't choke on the small fuses Dan, don't eat the plug Dan. (I do hope your in building phones will have a British ringing cadence and dial tone.)

[@fdsman]

I'm pretty sure these exist for countries that have adopted the UK plug standard, but for some reason use NEMA standard enclosures. That leviton outlet does not carry a UL listing so it's certainly not intended for installation here

[@electroshed]

Hell yea brother! Nice to see a little bit of UK in America!

[@MaxLane-l4u]

As a British electrician I never knew you could get uk style sockets that fitted American back boxes very intresting. I’ve seen it the other way round though

[@BAYBAY_316]

I got very curious after watching this video and I've been watching a KZbin video on ring circuits and I'm curious what your opinion is on ring circuits?

[@StuffJason437]

@@BAYBAY_316 UK ring circuits are only a thing due to lack of copper during the war and nowadays, it helps to balance out the load.

[@HeatherComputer]

​@@BAYBAY_316ring circuits suck. They're cheaper but otherwise are worse in every way.

[@joshuaneilson]

I was kinda wondering where this was going, now I have even more questions

[@FireandSecurity331]

totally up to code! he is defiantley a qualified electrician

[@XeroZenith]

Code runs on computers

[@DreamGrandDragon]

Careful now that may be against federal regulations😂

[@halo64654]

Who's gonna out him? The ghosts? Lol.

[@janikpaul1808]

if u are feeling usles remember this outlet

[@edgyerica4823]

As a current trade school student learning electrical work these videos are fascinating

[@MhzUHF]

Ok our one achievement in the world is the UK type G Socket (US: outlet) The bit at the top is called an on off switch 😉 we have Live Neutral and Earth (not Ground) although electricians are made to call Live “Line” for some reason and the World standard has settled on 230v AC but 240v comes out of my socket. And why does the US have so many different 220 /240 sockets, I assume that's why your using a UK socket? Not long found your channel it looks a fun project good look with the renovation but please keep the Nurse call system that's cool 👍

[@dlarge6502]

Our one achievement? You realise we also created the entire industrial revolution. Invented the steam engine, the telephone, light bulb, the computer, radio, radar, steel hulled ships, iron bridge construction, concrete, vaccination, the elimination of smallpox, the World Wide Web, the telegraph (joint with USA), supersonic flight (joint with France), the jet engine, television, the discovery of DNA, cloning, DNA fingerprinting, antibiotics, the electric motor, the Newtonian Telescope, the wind tunnel, the ARM CPU used in all smartphones and tablets worldwide, the microwave oven (originally developed to defrost hamsters, no I'm not kidding), the tank, the flip flop circuit (trust me that thing is effing bloody critical to modern life), packet switching (there would be no internet or WiFi routers without that), the blast furnace, the diesel engine, the internal combustion engine (one of the earliest examples), the electric transformer, bagless vacuum cleaner, in fact, the vacuum cleaner itself (improved upon and commercially famous thanks to Hoover in the US), the fire extinguisher, the rubber band, the tin can, the corkscrew, Christmas crackers, Christmas cards, the potato crisp (later independently reinvented in a US restaurant), the toaster, the modern flushing toilet, the magnifying glass, the thermos flask, the effing toothbrush, general anesthetic, the CT scanner, IVF, Viagra, the discovery of vitamins, hip replacements, ibuprofen, the single lens reflex camera,the structure of the atom, the barometer, the chronometer, calculus, electrical generator, the electromagnet, the first law of Thermodynamics and the naming of the Joule, the micrometer, the discovery of oxygen, the creation of the periodic table, and I'll finish with: the MRI scanner. I could go on. The Japanese did a study several year ago to identify the source of the modern worlds technologies and inventions and found that over 50% of all technologies and discoveries in used today, critical for the modern world were discovered, developed or invented or significantly contributed to by these British Isles. So no, the type G socket, as brilliant as it is, is far from our single contribution to the world. When you look it up, we actually largely created the world as it is today.

[@cayenmaling3056]

Use a big heavy duty 20 or 30 amp light switch as a circuit finder. Just make sure to put a 30 or 40 amp circuit breaker on it so it doesn’t blow up and melt.

[@2kadrenojunkie]

i have to wonder- what will you use this for if anything? its a uk socket running at us voltage, unless you make your own appliances or change out the plug yourself things are gonna run at half power if at all. i do like the idea of just adding it in for the hell of it though, why not right?

[@2kadrenojunkie]

wait, actually theres nothing really stopping you from just making it a 240v circuit. i'm not sure what the local building codes would have to say about that though, same with the nonstandard socket.

[@SgFireAlarms]

You may think it's "Special European Things" but to us, it's a standard

[@sparkplug1018]

Nema 6-30R, is what we call a heavy duty 240 volt outlet. Yes the British square pin is nice, but that bad boy is on some other level.

[@nbarrager]

If you got a two pole breaker and wired the neutral into one of the phases you could run a British tea kettle off of it. There are also lots of devices with switching power supplies that will work on a range of voltages so that companies can manufacture one unit for the whole world and just slap whatever plug on it. You could get a uk phone charger or a flat screen with a UK plug and run it off that without rewiring anything. Just read the input voltage printed on the device. EDIT: That's a commercial building so phase to phase would be 208v, not 240v.

[@jrmcferren]

If he was converting the building into something like a makerspace and needed 230 and 240 volt foreign outlets, a 480 to 240 transformer would be good. Same thing if he needs 120/240 instead of 120/208, he can get a 480 to 120/240 transformer. I’ve been in guard shacks powered by the latter.

[@StuffJason437]

UK phone charger's will work with any voltage tho ...since they all use switch mode power supplies in them.

[@nbarrager]

@@StuffJason437that's why I said "without rewiring anything"

[@someguy9778]

Clearly you're picking up residual energy from past guests. 😀

[@sebastianandreivazdoaga]

Those plugs are still not Dan proof. Anyone can get a screwdriver onto the ground and open the live and neutral doors to do 11 pm Dan things again. (I know because I tried. A luck that it wasn't connected.)

[@letaloudone]

Shouldnt this have been replaced with a orange isolated groud recepticle like most hospitals use?

[@stanpatterson5033]

I prefer the green Robertson screw terminals ( that's #1 Robertson for the color-blind folks ). Positive drive, no slip, minimum wobble. Fun fact: Robertson tips don't need to be magnetized, the fit is THAT good.

[@reddragon27284]

Honestly didn’t know you could buy UK sockets for use in the US. Is this a common thing? I guess it would make sense to connect it to a 240V circuit since that’s our voltage over here but you’d still have to deal with the frequency difference. Most modern appliances would be ok with that though.

[@dlarge6502]

It's worth pointing out that although pretty synonymous with the UK, the type G socket is actually pretty commonly used across the world.

[@sethanix3969]

@@dlarge6502 Really?

[@orionfl79]

Will UK device thingies actually work if plugged into that? O_o

[@kirbyyasha]

Probably if it supports multivoltages like modern laptop power adapters or similar where it senses the voltage.

[@matt9c1]

A laptop charger from the UK, sure, it won't care. A jackhammer jesus ? Probably want to use a converter :)

[@StuffJason437]

Laptop charger,SmartPhone charger,Modern Computer PSU's are all using switch mode power supplies and so will run off that socket ...Exampt fans,heaters 'n' certain lights that are voltage specific.

[@HeatherComputer]

Some. A lot of devices will handle 120v or 230v, they'll work. Otherwise, you'll at best run into big issues.

[@dglcomputers1498]

Resistive devices like a heater or universal motor should work on 120V, they'll just be not as powerful or run slower. 208/240V split phase should be OK for most items as it's the phase to phase voltage they'll care about.

[@staind288]

This is pointless. Aren't UK plugs 240v? How will anything work off of this if it's 120?

[@faumnamara5181]

A lot of modern stuff would work like laptop chargers etc Many items are multi voltage 100-240v. Older items or heavy duty items like hoover or washing machine wouldn't.

[@rubenpantoja9674]

Just get a adapter or is a US outlet

[@rca50a]

I have many questions, including why does this product exist...

[@nbarrager]

Some people like to buy UK tea kettles because they boil slightly faster. In a residential building if you install a two pole breaker and wire the two prongs into it with no neutral it gives you 240v (this is commercial so he'd get 208v). I wouldn't plug anything more complicated than a tea kettle or a space heater tho. There's no neutral, heating elements shouldn't mind, but anything with electronics would probably pop.

[@AMD1]

why would electronics or anything other than a heating element "pop" when hooked up L-240-L without a neutral? when i did refrigeration my partner and i installed a 208/240v refrigeration skid on an open-delta 3 phase configuration using L2-208-N. that is a single pole breaker on the wild leg. we typically install them L-240-L single phase or L1-240-L3 delta, or between any leg on a L-208-L wye.

[@JoseLgamer05]

Why put a uk outlet in the US ? What do you intend to plug into it ? It would be the same if I put a US socket here in Portugal really, I could, but what use would it be in 99% of the time ?

[@MrOrthopedia]

And the US and UK Use different AC frequencies. The US runs at 60 hertz and the UK runs at 50 hertz.

[@dro3m]

Anything he attaches a Type G plug too.

[@christianherald]

a kettle is the only proper answer

[@dlarge6502]

​@@MrOrthopedia the sockets are independent of voltage and frequency. Just wire the plug onto the cord for whatever you want to power.

[@2kadrenojunkie]

@@MrOrthopedia oh shit i didn't know that, so most things that have synchronous ac motors in them might run a bit fast. i thought it was just japan that used 50 for some reason.

[@MrOrthopedia]

Don't you need 240 volts and an AC frequency of 50 hertz?

[@dlarge6502]

No, this doesn't use any power so...

[@MaxLane-l4u]

Just buy some uk plug tops and put them on some appliances

[@matthewdove3520]

I’m from the uk and we do have better plug & switch systems

[@Warp2090]

better outlets yes

[@AlexanderCrump]

Is 12 AWG Romex uncommon in the UK due to the higher voltage and lower amperage draw? Is it necessary?

[@1HotLegendLS]

I have a few wired up to a 240v 20A circuit for when my fiance visits from England

[@fdsman]

Hope this is a joke since that won't account for the 50Hz/60Hz difference between our two power systems.

[@1HotLegendLS]

@fdsman doesn't matter on a resistive load with no frequency dependant motors. Everything she uses on them aren't frequency dependant. Such as her curling iron and kettle

[@xanderplayz3446]

⁠@@fdsmanGuess what: Most power supplies support 120/240 volts, and don’t care about the frequency.

[@MrOrthopedia]

I agree. ​@@fdsman

[@juniorelectrician2005]

Old plug, but high quality uses screws to clamp down on the wire instead of the push through connectors seen on cheaper plugs.

[@seanarnett]

love your content keep it up

[@chrisingle5839]

There is so much wrong here....

[@XeroZenith]

Nah, code runs on computers

[@ShieyV2komputroniks]

You could buy a uk plug for your favorite fan

[@DavidBerquist334]

We here can you get them Are you from the uk What are you going to use it for

[@washingmachinelad356]

It's much better with a UK/Ireland socket put in rather than using a US/Canada socket in a US building

[@Fluffberymoff]

Even though UK sockets are pretty safe, are you supposed to plug stuff into it then?

[@sudofox]

Wouldn't this be the wrong AC switching frequency and voltage? Scary....

[@that_weird_vtuber]

Shouldn't matter for most things. Only items effected badly would be motors spinning faster

[@MrHack4never]

Frequency: difference is too small to matter Voltage: lower than design is intended for, no problem unless a device is expecting 240V

[@brently1973]

Why do UK plugs always have switches on them? Whats that for?

[@djm5k]

You could have bought a premium quality US receptacle that would be comparable to the UK receptacle so you could have a practical place to plug any US electrical device into.

[@StuffJason437]

Switch mode power supplies won't be affected by that. However, fans,heaters 'n' certain lights may be affected in different ways due to lack of voltage,current & incorrect Hz.

[@LethaWolf30]

lol what was the point of this? 🤣🤣

[@XeroZenith]

None.

[@MartinNyxel]

😂😅 thanks for a good laugh! ❤😂

[@kolejkolej3386]

You just instaled the most usless outlet in the whole bulding

[@j.w2000]

Not unless you get an appliance with a us plug and place a uk plug on making sure you use the right amperage fuse in the plug for the appliance.

[@kolejkolej3386]

@j.w2000 Yes but in US its rare for this to happen

[@dro3m]

@@kolejkolej3386 Just attach a type G plug to whatever you want or make an adapter. Not really rocket science.

[@kaplunk1548]

you havent seen a proper powerpoint yet till you've seen the australian one

[@ExitSignAficionado]

Australia chose the old US 250v plug (now phased out in the US for NEMA 7-15 plug) over the British plug. The british plug required the brass to be machined while the US plug could be stamped from sheet metal. Much easier and cheaper to import sheet metal during the industrial revolution. I read that aus/nz boxes are the same dimensions as US boxes but with whitworth screws instead of SAE screws. it was a weird combination of British and American.

[@Truckguy1970]

These sockets like the one he's installing are in a lot of hotels in the US

[@ShiaGaming88]

Maybe he’s making it into a hotel

[@Truckguy1970]

@ShiaGaming88 or possibly Air Bnb's

[@ShiaGaming88]

@@Truckguy1970 still a cool idea

[@robertmailhos8159]

That red wire is also used to connect a 2 way light switch

[@alphawolffurry-t8r]

happy new year

[@alphawolffurry-t8r]

can i see the elevator with the new valve

[@Sparky-joystick.1308]

American plug to British plug not 50hz 220v 😂😂😂

[@DanTDMJace]

We have 220V circuits that he could of used, 240V @ 60hz (60hz would probably mess up some stuff though)

[@jcsmith467]

There probably are 60 to 50 hz converters out there.

[@hammerplusplus]

it's 240 not 220, that's european standard.

[@DanTDMJace]

@@hammerplusplus Fixed

[@Berge99075]

Can he get those transparent exit signs?

[@marksmith-ew7ir]

When you have a UK person owning a USA building it's nice to change outlets to UK spec to run saver items that have a fuse in the plug so it doesn't blow the breakers at the panels and keep power on till it overloads the supply power.

[@marksmith-ew7ir]

UK fuse rating are much safer than USA as people overload power supply when using so items that pull to much power and starts fires if the breaker doesn't trip

[@Mad-Cat-Gaming]

You said the psychword was in Ohio. Can I pull up and do some ghost hunting?

[@johnwetmore1527]

Why would you install an outlet that nothing plugs into? We are not in the UK. Perhaps the facility is still open and that would explain it. Only an insane person would do that.

[@XeroZenith]

I never said I was normal lol

[@dhelton40]

It looks to me like you just installed a 240 volt receptacle on a 120 volt circuit, unless that white wire is really a hot wire. In the US we have 120/208 in most 3 phase systems and 120/240 in single phase. 240 / 208 are mostly used for dedicated large heating and motor applications. The many types of receptacles denote the amp rating and single vs three phase at the receptacle. For example, the 50/60 amp receptacle installed in homes for a stove (cooker), has four pins. The circuit is derived from a center tap transformer, with the center tap grounded and designated neutral (current carrying). Red and Black from the transformer supply the heating elements with 240 and the white neutral provides 120 for the controls and oven light (formerly a electro-mechanical clock) which are connected between the white and either red or black. Green is the grounding conductor for the metal frame. If you wish to use a 240 volt appliance in the US, it is easiest to use a standard 240 volt plug and receptacle. I do know people who have installed a 20 amp 240 receptacle for a kettle in the kitchen.

[@dlarge6502]

It's copper mate. The socket will pass 120v as well as it would hassle 9v DC. It literally makes zero difference. Conductors don't have a voltage or current need, they are passive.

[@RJGamer-zb4lb]

wait that illegal

[@juniperchow]

Wait bs1363 socket for north american junction box wild

[@HunterEiland-j2u]

Bro let me guess you’re gonna have European whatever the heck you call it people in the building when you restore come on that’s silly

[@thethirdrail8397]

I have to wonder if longer videos would be better for this channel? Eight minute videos a Or less(for the most part) just seem to be too short. Yet longer videos may be more of a health hazard….

[@The_Laundry_Enthusiast]

You should get a uk socket imported or something and back box would be cool

[@robertdudley1652]

😂😂😂

[@DanTDMJace]

I am Early(TM)

[@LoganHester-1489]

I was to

[@FI-TECH-250]

that socket is rated for 13 a on 230v, so in the US that socket would be rated for 120v 30a! Cool! A high amperage outlet, justa different plug. Get an adapter, and youll be fine! Edit: A lot of people dont have sarcasm, so ill say that this a joke to save me angry comments

[@NoSignal-uf2yz]

Oh god no, that’s not how it works at all! 😂

[@Sparks0001]

It absolutely is not!!

[@rubenpantoja9674]

Too Short it out use some wire nuts

[@LoganHester-1489]

D