How Not to Install a Light Switch

[robloxaddct]

epicFAIL!!!!



[ERunit1234]

This guy isnt "insane" hes just an idiot. Absolute idiot.

[thexboxfanboi]

@lockergnome most of your viewers are younger and don't have access to a credit card but do have access to an iTunes account so you would probably make more money that way, if you don't know how to make a app, use the free program called gamesalad, no programming knowledge required to make iOS apps, I took a whole class on using it and it is pretty easy tomuse.

[thexboxfanboi]

@lockergnome I would not pay on YouTube but if you put it in an iPhone app than I totally would

[MalcolmLC]

thats weird. my light socket taste like death 0_O

[BlackCaScorpio]

It wont kill you unless u hang on to it? Does someone really have a choice to let go once being electrocuted? Lmao...

[Fantome1989]

Don't hold the screwdriver like he does if you haven't turned off power to the circuit. Only touch the insulated part of the screwdriver not the metal part. The voltage and current has nothing to do with if it will "kick you or stick you." If you grab the circuit you will not be able to let go because your muscles with tighten up. If you touch it with the back of your finger it will resist and push your finger away very fast.

[gilosborne15]

Is it just me or is the dimmer the end different than the one they installed the whole time

[BlackCaScorpio]

@gilosborne15 It was different. I caught that to

[acolecobob]

can anyone say, tool time trama unit. ahhh the good old days of Tim Allen's Home Improvement.

[edwardholmes91]

In the UK we have 230/240V but a lower current. Lol when he shocked himself. Also noticed... you are not suppose to rely on the screws to pull the switch-plate in. It should sit flush anyway and the screw should just hold it in place. If it springs out when you take the screws out the wires in the back-box are too long or not neatened up enough. Also wondering what the yellow things were?

[asth12]

I'd pay a buck lol

[kriller112]

They guy installing the switch looks like the Angry Video Game Nerd

[DavinDaGeek]

I'd pay a buck.

[ILikeDaComputer]

no, but with all of your viewers, you would get a fairly large sum of money :P

[harrybean2006]

He you changed the switch from the one your bud installed. What happened?

[AchievementGnome]

lol

[SecularSpartan]

I would pay!

[edjunior]

How many geeks does it take to change a light bulb?

[maybach6536]

He'll ya I would pay!!

[SimHarrison]

thanks, that was sooo helpful ^o^

[PsycCentauri]

"chris pirillo's house burns down" LOLLLL OH NOOOOO

[frededison]

Buy a cheap circuit tester and you won't have to wonder if you turned off power to the right breaker.

[freakaboutlinux]

I hope this guy never does any electrical work again, im with Chris in that he could have used a torch, i think he just wanted to look badass for the camera by doing it with live wires, instead it made him look like an idiot.

[3cho911]

ok i now know that it takes a stupid person, a guy making funny comments and guy filming to change a light switch

[chronofusion]

wow..gj on proving WHY to turn off the damn breaker switch to either that particular outlet or that entire room area to INCLUDE that outlet....fckin moron.lol.

[manofthe916]

you need to reduce the main power that goes into the switch to the lights. so dim the brightest point. so you can then bring the dim down nice and low for your girlfriend ;]

[targethunter9]

I'll pay a buck for a home tour

[Geek178]

I would pay a buck but it's getting that to you. I havnt got pay pall or credit cards

[Geek178]

@bobo1019 he's been in there to

[frosty9595]

Its simple... Remove screws so switch is hanging out..... Detatch two wires.... Attach wires to new switch. Enjoy switch.

[chronofusion]

@frosty9595 yeah you left out the part about shutting off the current of electricity to that particular line ( either by turning off the breaker switch to either the line or the entire room coherent to the light switch) FIRST so you dont get shocked. :D and to make sure you attach the wires to the new switch exactly as the old ones were ( unless the new switch has some sort of magically new breakthrough tech instructions "chances are they wont" )

[frosty9595]

@chronofusion only pussys shut the power off. Also it does not matter which way the two wires go on a switch dumbass

[chronofusion]

@frosty9595 lol. sure FUCKTARD wtf ever. you go ahead and prove me wrong and have fun getting shocked. mr. big strong jock strap. while you're at it since you seem to have little man or needle dick syndrome ( you're reply to my comment was OBVIOUSLY way out of line and totally uncalled for) why dont you further your empty point by sticking your pecker in the socket while you're at it. dont forget to leave the breaker switch on. Maybe it will do the world and favor and sterilize you.

[frosty9595]

@chronofusion u mad bro?

[HeffernanProductions]

wait-- the switch changed?!?

[boob1019]

If he did a tour for free it would be great. Make money from adsense anyway. Chris cannot get a buck for a tour. He has been in every room except for the bathroom.

[garfield2095]

"Think of the views we would get on YouTube" xD

[mad2248]

I will give you 1p british

[Umbrago]

I want a home tour

[BrendonVall]

Idiots! Im an electrician and all I can say is.... Idiots! Are those electrically rated tools?

[BrendonVall]

Idiots! Im an electrician and all I can say is.... Idiots!

[allsomeness]

maybe

[TRVY9]

yes one buck, how soon

[ndgreenaway]

this is incredibly silly..its not even funny..you can kill yourself doing this..turn OFF the electric..why the hell didn't you?

[Christheorly]

oh these guys are the coffee house guys!

[intelmacs]

Stupid, stupid way to change a light switch, sure it aint gonna kill you but for the sake of turning the breaker off who would want to take the risk?

[kenwee1]

@wwallender, he installed a Dimmer switch...he had a regular switch before, thats ehy their differnt

[kenwee1]

Wickett? is ur dogs name Wickett?

[wwallender]

GUYS NOTICE WHEN HE SAYS ITS INSTALLED THE SWITCH IS DIFFERENT

[pumpbreaks]

OMG that is the most dangerous way to change a switch!!! why would you let him do that! also... you can touch the ground as much as you like dumb ass

[pumpbreaks]

OMG that is the most dangerous way to change a switch!!! why would you let him do that!

[wwallender]

@pumpbreaks Its Not If You Know What Your Doing

[TecBookPro]

I was about to comment about the insurance and the guy said it, hhaaha.

[coffeeandtech]

I was playing with 240 and re wiring the house when I was 12

[wwallender]

@coffeeandtech I Am 12 I Wired Half A House And Got Electricuted 4 Times

[sonyvaio980]

How many geeks does it take to change a light switch?

[grim879]

you know one time i was in my basement and i turned on my light switch and the light switch started smoking nd sparking at me.....that was not a fun time xD

[theaussiegeek]

1 dollar to see you home, maybe. The question is how much would you charge for you to show your street. What is the price for your privacy.



[iacuonea]

is that a 3 phase switch board in your house? thats pretty extreme chris aha

[Arrow12310]

first video how kill yourself with Light Switch

[JacobLukeWood]

They should have put the lights on a separate switch DUH?

[simpsonstewie]

he just violated every single electrical code in this video

[powerman2442]

@simpsonstewie NOT...

[jackgvogel]

Chris. Put more load on the same circuit as the dimmer, try an incandescent bulb with a low power output. This might eleviate the small dynamic range your dimmer is experiencing. I'm not, but my dad is a master electrician, any tips, or ideas I get come from what he has taught me.

[mastergp4life]

I was waiting for the guy to get electrocuted, I'm disappointed. =(

[dungeondragon85]

Uhh... What? The dimmer switch is totally different at 11:30. What gives? It looks like you swapped the LED/CFL dimmer with a regular dimmer.

[dayuhl2u]

I would totally pay a buck to see your house

[trumpetbrandon]

That was just dumb...anyone could have told you that. Haha sorry chris, but changing a lightswitch is one of the easiest things to do!

[RatkoUSA]

Nice arc. lmao

[xROBERTxDAVISx]

get a lower wattage bulb for dimmer light

[TechnoMaple]

that happened because he touch the + or - with the base

[technerd985]

Yeah, sure I would pay a buck.

[DeltaPhi79]

I would pay a buck if only I could actually give it to you.

[statman4ever]

I got shocked by a light switch before, it wasn't fun.

[0mgPwnag3]

I would pay 1$

[westtell4]

Yeah that's a totaly diffrent dimmer swtich

[iamnottomgreen]

Much easier than double-clicking an .exe

[DH1Studios]

I will pay $1 to tour your place

[LACHandLOAD]

@DH1Studios I'd pay $10.

[boyuchuadaniel]

I will pay $100 to tour your home

[jabatista66]

Before you charge people to see a home tour, consider hiring me to be a bodyguard in case someone tries to break in because of the info they saw on YouTube. LOL. I can see it now. "What a dummy! Posting a home tour video and now we know just how to break in and...uhhhh....hello scary man in the dark...please don't kill us. We know not what we do!" Or you can always train your dogs the Sith way. LOL.

[itouchhacker241]

why would we pay $1 for a home tour if u do that im going to pirate your video

[TitusF2]

So you have a dedicated breaker switch just for your computers or did I read that wrong?

[BiosNova]

He needed two people to come around to change a switch? They didn't know what they were doing anyway. Did it in a totally unsafe way.

[TheWaterboy818]

@BiosNova So how many nerds does it take to change a light switch?

[LaxiMac]

I would pay a buck to see your home

[mrmodernredneck]

I'd pay $5 for a tour of your home!

[trevmister8]

@mrmodernredneck I'll double it!

[zSonata]

@trevmister8 I'll triple it!

[WATSONMUTH]

@AlexGHooper YOU DON'T KNOW SHIT HAHAHAHAHAHA

[olifds]

If the tour is described yes i would!

[EatenSniperGuy]

YouTube Rental Program!

[rgregoryoa]

I would pay

[ErikTheAndroid]

thats what she said was the first thing that came to my head when he said, it didnt pull out the way i wanted to

[Geek178]

That guy really doesn't know how to change a switch safely

[ghostwound898]

dam! i only have 99 cent!

[MrSkinnyBill]

Skip to 3:25 for the good part :)

[AlexGHooper]

Is this guy fucking insane?! he could fuse the entire house by doing this...let alone kill himself

[MrSkinnyBill]

@AlexGHooper Thats alright... fuses are designed to break.

Anyway, he doesn't have fuses, he has a circuit breaker, where the switch simply trips.

[GravityBeats]

DO THE HOME TOUR!!!!!!!!!

[GravityBeats]

100th like... yay I guess??

[xartpant]

How can a computer geek be unable to repair his own light switch?

[DeltaPhi79]

@xartpant Because electrical work isn't the same as computers. :P

[jinx748]

@xartpant Computer nerds and electricians are far from being the same. One sits behind a desk the other works in construction.

[Ryanpwns69]

@xartpant pretty sure lighting and computer hardware have different requirements and require different approaches to repair..

[falmatrix2r]

@xartpant not sure he's gonna risk anything on a 3,5,12V rail that goes to the motherboard except frying the mobo...unless he opens up the PSU and puts his hand inside...light switch is something else

[xTomm01]

@xartpant Because geeks cant use screwdrivers?

[chronofusion]

@xartpant look to the answer in your own sentence " computer geek" . computer geek doesn't always = or mean the same thing as " experienced or freshly trained electrician". I have a natural tech savy-ness towards thing. I know that the first step towards installing a new light switch is to shut off electricial current aka breaker switch to the line or that entire room that I am upgrading the light switch involving. beyond that. I'm not sure. My own fears vs knowledge of ground wire(s)

[Jallandhara]

@xartpant Because "geeks" know jack shit about things outside of computers. Case in point: You have to ask.

[edwardholmes91]

@Jallandhara I would consider myself a geek but I know a lot of things about electronics and wiring. I am studying a degree in Electronic Engineering!

[spyridonas23]

Now i know how to change my switches !

[officialtlong]

That dude is nuts.

[Az90981]

@erikdstreetbeats Maybe she has one eyeball...

[qrsvideos]

I would pay $1.50 to see a home tour. haha

[vb6magic]

why is he not touching the ground wire there no load on there :/

[cateye27]

Chris, that is a totally different switch at the end. The first switch had the on/off button Big, and in the middle. The brightness slider was small, and on the right. On the slider in the end the on/off button was smaller and at the bottom. The brightness slider was big, and in the middle. Also on the first switch, the screws were not visible after putting the cover on it. On the new switch the are visible. What happened?

[maxvandewiele]

"a half a what?!" and think now a little bit ambiguous....

[ComphelPC]

1...2...3...BOOOOM ARR HE DEAD

[ERunit1234]

why did this idiot not turn off the power before he started!?

[officialtlong]

@ERunit1234 I know right?

[NaotoNekoCutie]

lol the dimmer switch changed

[CorruptedPersona]

I get nervous just watching this lol!

[tmar23]

Also something there is an adjustment dial for setting the low end of the dimmer adjustment. I have all Lutron Maestro dimming switches throughout the house with Maestro IR's in the theater room.

[roboedar]

the guy doing the job is an idiot. i've gone to school with douches like this that are so ego tripping that they don't go through precautionary measures simply for the fact that someone else brought it up and not them. For example testing the freaking thing before screwing it back into the wall or turning off the breaker before getting to work like Chris suggested. those are the logical things to do.

[whipydip99]

I would pay $1. I don't understand why you would charge for that video though.

[tmar23]

Don't think he's even close to an electrician. It arced because when he was striping it he hit the ground with the tip of the pliers. He never should have cut it in the first place but it looked like he didn't know how to remove the push in type connection. And what electrician uses electrical tape? It is not used in household wiring, it's all wire nuts. Pass through wires? Hot and common and after re-watching hook it up I believe he hook it up wrong that's why it's not working right...

[Intronetz]

1. Yes, I would pay $1.

2. You said "With that camera on my desk"... Wasn't an iPad, a Mac Book Pro, or (obviously) the iPhone, what camera is it?

[DoctorKandosii]

Nothing like the smell of freshly scorched Americans :)

[meiklejohntheuesr]

I would pay $1 to see a home tour.

[ajamison3]

the iPhone takes surprisingly good videos in the dark, I could just make out your face Chris

[gamerplay]

It better be the best home video I have seen for $1

[iurea848]

God damn it Chris make a house tour.....please........i think i'm speaking in the name of all your fans when I say that a tour of your house would be realy interesting.......just think at all the geeky stuff that we can see guys.....please thumbs up so he can see.

[vbognot626]

It's not the same switch at the end of the video? Umm what happened lol?

[emerysteele]

Only 1$? Yeah!

[Garyyx24]

*think of the views on youtube, Chris Pirillos house on fire* hahaha

[geunsjl]

hah! we use 230/400V in belgium

[krish98sai]

I would pay $20 dollars to go to your house and have a tour!

[MichaelKavanaghIT]

I am guessing this person doesn't know much about electricity. Guidelines and common sense say that electrical circuits must be isolated before work may be carried out by a non-qualified electrician, and VDE fully insulated up to 1000v tools must be used. A non-qualified person not familiar with the science of electricity should not be working live what-ever the circumstances. Anything above 6v has the ability to kill you, shutting down "1 million" things is surely better than loosing your life?

[punkrules45]

@MichaelKavanaghIT lol the volts don't kill you buddy, it depends on amperage. So yeah I guess 6v at high amperage could do the job.

[MichaelKavanaghIT]

@punkrules45 I don't believe I said the volts kill you -_- Also, dimmer switches vary the way volts supplied to the bulb, not the watts, watts is a measure of power not electricity. Its true old dimmers used to vary voltage, however modern dimmers used to control the brightness of LED fixtures control the frequency of the AC voltage, as well as rectifying it, sort of creating a PWM effect.

[HandyPhoto]

I would pay $1 to see that yes

[GriffsStarcraft]

ill pay a buck to see your home only if you give us a full tour of your underwear drawer!!!!!

[Vertson]

id pay a dollar, yes

[MrWillpromo]

now I understand why you wasn't live lol

[dobre0nony]

1 buck for watching a home video, u usuall yget what 70,000 -100.000 + views, how much did u say a buck was ?

[dobre0nony]

"think of the views ud get on youtube "

[mikolv21]

Yes i will pay a buck. WAit i live in a UK What about a quid?

[1tofallen]

@mikolv21 why would you almost twice as much?

[gcjackofalltrades]

chris doesn't like jailbreaking because he fells like it isnt legitimate. But once again he contradicts himself by having a illegtimate electrician nearly kill himself by working in his house

what a tool!!!!!

[macboy5411]

yes i would pay $5 to see a home tour

[ghostwound898]

id give a dollar to you for a home tour under one condition. you give me it back after :D

[willlisawsom]

I would pay a buck to see a tour of a geeks house

[SPAZPRPO]

the dimmer we saw being installef is not the same one we saw working!

[muk546]

now all you need is a underground bunker nuke proof

[hector20067]

I'd sell both my kidneys in order to see a tour of your house.

[djdecca]

i'm an electrician, and lights here are 220-240 V.

[dkconor]

I'd pay a buck, then download the file and re-upload it to YouTube - bad idea Chris. :D

[stefnic23]

I will NOT, repeat NOT pay a dollar for a house tour. HAHA

[vinnysoto83]

Don't do it Chris. You have so much to live for! Stop. Don't do it for your fan bit for all the feature tech.

[dkconor]

@goodgames Great idea, someone should probably get as much footage as they can of his house, then remix it into an MTV Cribs style video. xD

[AminopurLT]

why 120v not 220v ?

[awesomejpg]

I would pay 1 dollar :o

[anel115]

I would pay :P

[Xphome]

I would pay $1

[abd4620]

8:20 "mr. Ppppff" xD lmao

[KridikJones]

If your house did burned down, you would probably get enough views to get a new one... along with the insurance...

[KennyMataz]

I would pay $1 which btw, is €0.69, i would pay just because its €0.69

[hugo6644493]

I could pay 1$ for the full house tour, but I don't how can I do so since i'm not living in the US and I don't have a credit card yet (international cards require 20 yr or older)

[awsomebatman]

Does anyone else notice it doesn't seem like the same dimmer! the one that installed stuck out further than the one at the end of the video! and the one they put in did not have screws on the cover plate! NOT THE SAME ONE AT THE END!

[ZeroC0ol1989]

I would pay 1$ to see a full house review!

Not some 5 minute video of it but a real detailed review~ =)

[igeekone]

Yes I will pay $1 to tour your home.