Electrical Safety

Electrical safety is important on every building and remodeling job, especially when installing lights and outlets. AsktheBuilder.com host Tim Carter offers some electrical safety tips that will keep you and your home safe.

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[Ken2234]

a ground screw is only listed for one wire, you should wire nut and pigtail the equipment grounding conductor to make the proper connection.

[AsktheBuilder]

Thanks for that tip!

[railcar123]

It looks like the "little tab" at the bottom of the socket is MIA.

[AsktheBuilder]

Sigh! It is there. The compression of the original video by the YouTube software darkens the *entire* video. If you could see the video file we sent them, the tab is visible and it doesn't look like we taped the video 30 minutes after sundown!

[JAMMY1NE]

How do you earth or ground copper pipe , I only have 1 earth wire connected to the cold main water pipe as it enters my house . Is it jus a case of bonding the hot and cold copper pipes under the sink and bath . if so what size mm earth wire would you recomend to do this .

[mastergx1]

its called a lamp - not a bulb

[cafeconpizza]

Darwin at it's best.

[tsaudiovisual]

there are different codes around the world,UK now in line with Europe 230V 50Hz,USA 120V & 240V 60Hz,Australia 230V 50Hz and so on as an Electrician of over 20 years i have worked on most systems each do it their own way but as long as it is electrically safe does it matter here in the UK the 17th ed of the regs is inforce so I am back to college for a refresher and my part P

[russdonruss]

Lots of Euros looking at this vid. In the US according to the National Electrical Code the bare wire (earth ground) is safe in the junction box. The wire nuts are the easiest way to make a connection in the hot and neutral conductors--we do not use crimps in most scenarios--they are harder to troubleshoot and less serviceable than wirenuts, and they do not work properly on solid conductors.

[ballsniff13]

lol dont do what i did i tryed to pry the tab up a little one time and um well it was on lets put it that way lol i got shocked

[thegalster1888]

using green sleeving would fail the regulations in the uk too mate , gotta be at least 70% to 30% ration between green AND yellow

[thegalster1888]

good point about him not mention to safely isolate the power (the correct term for turn off ) what do u mean by in more than one location ?u identify its isolator , test ur voltage meter in a proven unit , test the cables for power then use the proving unit again to make sure ur voltage detectors r still working correctly , isolated in one location the fusebox (not the lightswitch cowboy r ull get zapped by split neutrals ) which r still live

[thegalster1888]

ima uk electrician n kinda shocked at stuff av seen from evorsees kinda rough work , n av seen those connectors the guy uses , screw on caps , theyre not worth shit , ever heard of a crimping tool r terminal block ?and for earthing it , u should always use a flying earth to the back box , when maintaining the light when its unscrewed from the backbox its not earthed yet is still fixed to the wiring , always use a flying earth gusy

[edwina22]

Do you not use green sleeving on the ground or earth wire? That would fail regulations in the uk.