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In this episode I talk about how to wire and install 3 way switches and California (illegal or dead-end) 3ways.I start out by talking about in what situations you’d need a 3-way switch setup. A go step by step and wire two three way switches together and talk about the difference between the hot side and the switch leg side. The first half of the video is dedicated to wiring and installing a standard three-way setup, and the latter half goes into California 3-ways (illegal 3-ways).In this episode I also talk about running wire neatly, stripping out wire properly, making good joints, and how to rough in and rip out wires in boxes vs how to install the actual three way devices. Finally I hook the circuit up and test it with a light bulb.Please check out the Electrician U Facebook page at www.facebook.com/theelectricianu and subscribe to the YouTube Channel if you like these videos!

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In this episode I rip open a standard receptacle and a decor single-pole switch to reveal how each of these electrical devices works.

The insides of electrical outlets and switches are made up of very simple mechanical parts.  A receptacle is just a few pieces of metal that allows a cord to be plugged into them while pinching them in place.  There are 3 slots on the top of the device and 3 slots on the bottom of the device.  Each of the three slots consists of a hot, neutral, and ground.  Or as the NEC calls them the “ungrounded, grounded, and grounding conductors.”

The inside of a standard single-pole switch is fairly lackluster as well I’m afraid.  There is a small metal “flapper” that pushes two contacts together inside the device, and pulls them apart when you toggle the switch back and forth.  In both of these devices the ground terminal is only conntected to the yolk or “shell” of the device.  There’s nothing else inside of the switch that will be bonded to the grounding conductor.

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In this episode I talk about how to install an electrical plug-in receptacle.  Plugs are pretty day one helper stuff, but I talk about some methods of twisting joints, using strippers, cutting sheathing, and mounting the devices that maybe some teachers out there don’t use. 

As an apprentice, getting used to how your tools work and practicing with them over and over will get you better faster.  It will take a lot of running romex, stripping the ends out, and twisting hooks before this comes naturally.  But you WILL get there quickly.

In this show I take 12/2 romex from an existing switch box that has power in it already.  From there I install a plug box below and staple the wire in between the two boxes.  Finally I make joints in the switch box to feed the plug hot, and install the receptacle in the box below.  

After everything is done it is important that you ALWAYS CHECK YOUR WORK.  Always put a tester in of some sort and make sure every electrical installation you touch works before you walk away from it.  Not just for plugs and switches, but for EVERYTHING you do.  I use a simple plug tester at the end to ensure everything is wired correctly and we have electrical power present at the receptacle.

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This episode covers the basics of installing an electrical switch.  I cover mounting boxes, drilling holes, running 12/2 romex from a power source to a new switch box.  From that switch box I install another piece of 12/2 romex to a light above.  After wiring and rough-in I install a decor single-pole 15a switch and a keyless fixture with a lightbulb.

I talk briefly about how to rip out wires and twist joints, as well as how to test with a multimeter using continuity to see whether or not a bulb is bad.  This is the very beginning of a series from basic to advanced that will show apprentice electricians several different ways to install electrical materials and devices.

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If you’re about to start your career as an electrician but don’t have a clue what tools you need, feel free to consult this list.  In this video I talk about all of the tools that I deem necessary to start your career with.  There will be endless tools that you will buy through the years but these are the basics that every apprentice electrician needs.

In order as they appear, I also time-stamped each tool so you can find them easier.  If you’d like to buy them I’ve put links to each tool on Amazon below so you can order them for hella cheap rather than paying Home Depot prices.

1. First up is to get a good pouch. You’ll need a two-sided pouch with a hammer loop and a tape chain. One side of the bag should have storage for your hand tools, the other side should have multiple pouches for storing staples, screws, wirenuts, pens/pencils, markers, and a tape measure. You’ll want a separate hammer loop (one thing I forgot to mention in the video…a hammer!) that hangs behind you from the belt. Its a lot easier to have a hammer hanging from behind you than off to the sides smacking into your legs all day. (0:56)

2. Klein 10″ flat-head screw driver with a 3/8″ tip. (1:12)

3. Klein long-shaft 6-in-1 multitool (1:31)

4. Stanley Sheetrock Saw (2:33)

5. Klein Lineman’s Pliers (2:58)

6. Klein Side-cutting Pliers (3:30)

7. Klein Small Wire-Strippers (4:12)

8. Klein Large Wire-Stripper/Crimper/Bolt-Cutter Combo Tool (4:38)

9. Klein Needle-Nose/Stripper Combo Tool (5:38)

10. Fluke T5-600 Multi-meter (6:23)

11. Klein #2 Square (Robertson) Driver (7:39)

12. Klein ¼” – 9/16” Nut Drivers (more specifically 3/8”, 11/32”, 7/16”, and ½”) [your 6-in-1 will come with a ¼” and 5/16” so you don’t need to get these] (8:26)

13. Klein Mini terminating screwdrivers (Philips and Flathead) (9:42)

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Electrical testing equipment that ELECTRICIANS use.

Welcome friends!  In this episode we talk about the many different types of electrical testing equipment that electricians use daily.  This is a list of the multi-meters and electrical testers that I use, as an electrician, most often.  We cover, plug testers, non contact voltage testers, toners, multi-meters, amp clamp and ammeters, continuity, amperage, voltage, capacitance, and resistance.  If you’re looking to buy a new tester or just don’t know where to begin, this episode is a great place to start. 

Below is a complete transcript of everything talked about in this video.  Also further down are some links to these products if you’re interested in buying anything you saw me talk about.

 Complete Video Transcript

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Hello friends, I’m Dustin from Electrician U, and today I want to talk about testers.

So there are a lot of different testers that electricians use for various different purposes.  There are some testers that I’m not going to talk about, but for the majority of my work for every single day these are the testers that I’m going to go out to my truck and grab.

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Starting out, this guy is pretty important.  This is a plug tester specifically, so if you wire a house and you want to go and figure out if all of the plugs are working and are wired right – or if you have a dead circuit and you just need a place to start, this thing works great.  It has 3 little lights on it, if any two of them light up a certain way – there’s a little code on the front that describes if your ground and your hot are wired backwards or your hot and neutral are reversed, or everything is just ok, you did it right.  So this guy doing residential work, actually just doing all kinds of work – this guy is a really handy tool to have – go get one.

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Next thing that I’m embarrassed to even be talking about is this guy.  It is a non-contact voltage tester.  I would tell you to break this, throw this mother fucker away and don’t ever use it – but there are some times where it is useful to have.  The reason that I talk badly about it is a lot of apprentices grab these things and stick them in something and think “I know everything that’s going on with the circuit because this little light beeps”  there are so many times where these things will lie to you, for instance if you stick it into a box and the thing starts beeping at you, you have no idea if the ground is what it’s testing that has voltage on it, or if the neutral is testing that it has voltage on it.  Even in the pamphlet that these things come with, there’s a whole list of reasons why this may not work.  One thing it says that if your feet are not solidly grounded, or there isn’t an effective ground fault path for you, that it’s not going to work.  That’s not true at all, I’ve used it.  So there’s a lot of misinformation just in the manuals alone on these things.  I’ve seen more electricians get

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