How Do Power Outlets Work?
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Date: 2023-11-17
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Comments and reviews: 14
James
Why on earth would you use a white wire to extend the hot wire to the switch? Yes you used black tape on the end but somewhere down the road if someone see the white wire (possibly even somewhere in between two) they are going to assume it's neutral. Don't do that. The black wire is the black wire thru and thru, your just creating an extension loop so that it can be broken with the switch. Other than that I really like your videos. I already know all this stuff. Just finding videos for my son to learn.
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Why on earth would you use a white wire to extend the hot wire to the switch? Yes you used black tape on the end but somewhere down the road if someone see the white wire (possibly even somewhere in between two) they are going to assume it's neutral. Don't do that. The black wire is the black wire thru and thru, your just creating an extension loop so that it can be broken with the switch. Other than that I really like your videos. I already know all this stuff. Just finding videos for my son to learn.
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education
Idk about elsewhere, but the way I learned was all of your hots are tied into switch box with jumpers to each switch. Run a 3 wire to the plug, red wire on top (switched) black wire hot from switch box on bottom. Whites are tied together in recepticle box with 2 jumpers to the recepticle (top & bottom) break the tab to split the plug.
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Idk about elsewhere, but the way I learned was all of your hots are tied into switch box with jumpers to each switch. Run a 3 wire to the plug, red wire on top (switched) black wire hot from switch box on bottom. Whites are tied together in recepticle box with 2 jumpers to the recepticle (top & bottom) break the tab to split the plug.
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Raymond
What I liked about this vid is that the white wire going to the switched ckt has a stip of black tape '
to identify it as a HOT or UNGROUNDED conductor, I see people doing wiring and they neglect
the fact that the white is kooked to the live side. that coud be a deadly error even though all wires should be considered as 'LIVE'
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What I liked about this vid is that the white wire going to the switched ckt has a stip of black tape '
to identify it as a HOT or UNGROUNDED conductor, I see people doing wiring and they neglect
the fact that the white is kooked to the live side. that coud be a deadly error even though all wires should be considered as 'LIVE'
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Brian
Technically, your switched example doesn't meet code. You are supposed to have a neutral available at a switch box now, so the correct solution is three conductor with ground. White stays neutral and your red is live/switched. Neutral at a switch box is needed due to possible DC and smart applications on the market now.
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Technically, your switched example doesn't meet code. You are supposed to have a neutral available at a switch box now, so the correct solution is three conductor with ground. White stays neutral and your red is live/switched. Neutral at a switch box is needed due to possible DC and smart applications on the market now.
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Horace
i love plug outlets i hope their still used 100 years from now nobody wants for example a microwave in order to work you have to connect to a wifi or punch in your social security number or whatever just plug it in an outlet and you are good to go easy and simple and most of all IT WORKS!
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i love plug outlets i hope their still used 100 years from now nobody wants for example a microwave in order to work you have to connect to a wifi or punch in your social security number or whatever just plug it in an outlet and you are good to go easy and simple and most of all IT WORKS!
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Eddy
That last circuit is extremely dangerous as it could put 220V across the two hot sockets. If you plug a computer into one and a printer into the other it could easily FRY the lot as soon as the printer is plugged into the computer.
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That last circuit is extremely dangerous as it could put 220V across the two hot sockets. If you plug a computer into one and a printer into the other it could easily FRY the lot as soon as the printer is plugged into the computer.
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Brian
In the last diagram does the neutral wire take too much current since its the return for both circuits or does it not see double the current since the breakers are 180 degrees out of phase?
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In the last diagram does the neutral wire take too much current since its the return for both circuits or does it not see double the current since the breakers are 180 degrees out of phase?
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Matt
less likely to trip a breaker but let's say you bridged two 15A circuit breakers. is the rest of the circuit rated for 30A? seems like a bad idea but maybe I'm wrong.
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less likely to trip a breaker but let's say you bridged two 15A circuit breakers. is the rest of the circuit rated for 30A? seems like a bad idea but maybe I'm wrong.
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ihsanullah
Thanks for uploading useful videos.
It will be very better to upload a video about the remote control transmitter and receiver circuits, how they work.
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Thanks for uploading useful videos.
It will be very better to upload a video about the remote control transmitter and receiver circuits, how they work.
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Zone07
If running hot wires from multiple circuit breakers, shouldn't you also bring multiple neutral wires so as to not overload the one neutral wire?
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If running hot wires from multiple circuit breakers, shouldn't you also bring multiple neutral wires so as to not overload the one neutral wire?
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Matty
Seems unnecessarily complicated. Here you just put the live to the live terminal, the neutral to the neutral and earth to earth. Job done.
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Seems unnecessarily complicated. Here you just put the live to the live terminal, the neutral to the neutral and earth to earth. Job done.
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DChieng
What happened if accidentally connected the hot wire to the neutral side and the neutral wire to the hot side? Thanks.
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What happened if accidentally connected the hot wire to the neutral side and the neutral wire to the hot side? Thanks.
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Алексей
It might be a good idea to use a different animation for the current, since it's alternating, and not direct.
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It might be a good idea to use a different animation for the current, since it's alternating, and not direct.
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Devkash
Awesome videos I am like learning about electricity can make video about 3 phase in electrical systems
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Awesome videos I am like learning about electricity can make video about 3 phase in electrical systems
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