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hi guys and welcome to today's task
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for today's task i am not discussing
this beautiful
beautiful brand new porcelain throne
that is installed in this house
and that actually flushes
how amazing is that but today we are
going to be discussing gfcis
which is an outlet that goes near any
water source in your house where
electricity is next to it as well maybe
you've seen these around your house and
you're not entirely sure what they do
this little device right here is a
ground
fault current interrupter i believe
that's what it stands for
ground fault circuit interrupter i
believe gfci
i don't know maybe that's not what it is
i just know what it does
what this does is this has a little
reset and set
it's a safety trigger that's built in if
it senses any
different kind of a draw in current
that's going through this
it will trip it and then it will stop
all current going into it
so if for instance you have a hairdryer
that's plugged into this and it falls
into the sink full of water it will
instantly trip this
and shut down power so the person or
area will not become
like a shock hazard anymore they're
really really
smart they're a good um safety
precaution that you need
they are code so you do have to have
these if you're retrofitting anything
it's got to go in but they can be a
little bit of a trouble when it comes to
installing them if you're doing them on
your own sometimes
you'll install them and you'll not get
current readings it won't work properly
there's a few mistakes that people don't
know to look for
that will save you a lot of trouble and
time first thing we want to do shut off
power
when it comes to gfcis there are two
common mistakes that people make and the
first one
is that they don't put the gfci in the
right place
i know people need them next to
something that's going to have a water
area or something like that that's going
to terminate that
that's for safety precautions but you
need to know the proper placing to put
that in
as well you want to put that on your
home run line because
if you look on the back of your gfci you
will see that there is a line and then
there is a
load line is your incoming this will be
our original hot and
original neutral and second
this will be everything coming down in
the series
so all of the outlets downstream are
going to be shut off as well
and affected by it and if you don't put
that in the right place you could still
have
hot outlets that are still a dangerous
hazard so you need to make sure that
this is connected to your
home run line which this is so now
anything going downhill or downstream
in this current will shut off
automatically when this trips from any
sensation at all as well
now this also senses everything
downstream as well so if you have an
outlet for some reason it gets like
tampered with or whatnot it will trip
this also so you don't have to worry
about
oh i don't have one here or i don't have
one downstream
so it's not gonna sense it it will this
technology is very very sensitive which
brings me to our second
common mistake this we know is our home
run and this is our line coming in
but sometimes people will put this is
the line coming in and then they just
grab a neutral
and call it whatever they want that
doesn't work
this won't turn on you won't get a reset
you won't get these lights to turn on
it won't work properly and i've fought
one for days even trying to figure that
out
and i come to find out that the neutral
that i was trying to attach it to
wasn't the neutral of the home run line
this little instrument can sense
if this neutral is going back to the
circuit breaker and landed there or not
it just does that's incredible
technology it's such a small little
thing
but it's all for our safety so i've
identified all my wires and i know that
these are the line
or the load going out these are the line
coming in
and i'm going to cut them back a little
bit
and i'm just going to double verify that
it is shut off
now we're going to strip these back and
when it comes to outlets i do like to
usually curve
my outlets and wrap them around these
screws but because these have such
good insert sections i like to use those
instead
mostly because these go bad and they can
be replaced really easy
and if you've bent and messed with all
the wiring and whatnot
they don't exactly um go in and out very
easily so
this gfci i will just do the insert
installs keep in mind to keep these
separate so you know what's going where
i always keep in mind the brass colored
screws are typically the hot side and
the white colored screws are typically
the neutral size
this line goes in
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make sure it's all the way in there
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and i like to do one side of the outlet
first every time i typically start with
the neutral but because i'm trying to
keep things
so organized here or at least make sure
i'm not screwing anything up
on these i'm doing my hots first
neutrals and that is the one i've traced
it back a couple times now we know
and then the last one
there we go now it is connected
everything feels tight and solid we're
gonna push it back in our box
i am gonna flip it over because i hate
not seeing a face on the outlet
looks like a face to me eyes and a mouth
that's how i like to see it that's how i
want them always
while the power's off is the best time
to kind of square it up make sure it
sits nice
currently power is flowing properly
through this we don't have any
indicators one of the indicators
is saying that it's been tripped or one
is saying that this is gone
bad which is pretty cool technology if
you test it this is a test that will
test trip it that means that this is no
longer getting power through it and we
can prove this
by a little system we know that our
power is coming in on this side and
coming out
on the load side which comes to these
outlets next
so it's been tripped so i don't have any
power here let's go reset it and see
what it does
we've reset our gfci and now i have
power here
so if i was to trip that gfci or if
these trip anywhere it'll trip that
and stop power from coming i'll go do a
test so you guys can just visually see
that it turns off i'm not turning off
the breaker in any way
at the panel i'm just turning off the
gfci or tripping it
so i hit the test button which is the
test trick and this
loses all of its power downstream and
all of these will series downstream for
the bathroom outlets
pretty simple situation pretty simple to
install if you know a few little common
techniques so you guys that is how you
install a gfci and those are the common
problems you will run
into hopefully you will be able to
replace one or install one say you got
an older home that you need some update
on
i would recommend installing one just
for safety precautions and now you know
exactly how
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gfi or uh
first off what is this is intended
first off there are a lot of this little
outlet is intended to
ground fault circuit interrupter hey
does it right there ground fault circuit
interrupter i feel like there was two
mistakes what was the other one i don't
want to make the other one
so maybe you don't know what was the
other mistake
sorry they're saying this neutral
i don't want to say this when it comes
to when it comes to
i think i just put those into the wrong
spot
