What are those?
You’re looking at the back of 3 outlet fixtures. He’s sticking them into a 6 plug box, and has wired them sequentially. Could also be up to three fixture switches, or any combination of the two.
Guessing here, but generally speaking the copper is the live wire, the black is the negative, and the white is the ground.Apparently bare copper is the ground, per a comment below, so no clue.
Promise me you won’t do your own electrical work without doing a ton of homework first - bare hot wire is a good way to burn your house down
One suggestion. Some of the terminals are wrapped counter clockwise to the screw.
You want them to be looped in such a way that when the screw is tightened the loop is pulled into the screw instead of being pushed away from it.
You can see the way it’s wired here. Each one relative to the screw.
This was a fun watch!
I’m not knocking anything, but the half-finished tribal tattoo absolutely sold the video
A video of electrical advice from someone who clearly makes poor decisions 🤔
When it comes to videos showing electrical work, roofing, or other trades; I look for tattoos and such.
If the guy in the video is hard to understand, has a bunch of tats, is filming it poorly in his backyard with wind in his mic, has a cigarette hanging out of his mouth; you’re probably getting good advice because he does this shit for a living.
The guy in a neatly ironed polo shirt with a corporate logo, slick video with animations, nice background: that guy has no fucking clue what he’s talking about.
No pun intended, but why not stick the wires into the appropriate holes? Why did you choose to wrap them around the screws?
Probably 99% of electricians will tell you to never use the back stab holes.
They don’t hold well, at all, are easy to pull out when pulling an outlet/switch out, and can break the casing when trying to push the fixture in.
I don’t understand how they ever got approved, they’re flat out dangerous.
I don’t like the holes. I don’t trust em. With the screws I can definitely see what’s going on.
I’ve never used the holes. But on more than one occasion I’ve had to pull a socket from the wall because it was intermittent, and someone used the holes, and it was the problem. I wrapped it around the terminal properly and it was fine.
Is THAT what the holes are for?!?
I honestly never knew.
You press the wire directly into the round hole. To remove, you need to stick a small screwdriver into the rectangular hole next to it.
No one uses holes. They have a high fail rate, the Unless they are the high-end outlets where the screw also clamps the wire in the hole. And still, no one uses holes.
I use the holes, they’re just easier. Never had one fail.
Most old work I take apart also uses the holes.
Entirely anecdotal, but I’ve come across failed hole installations.
