Imagine he just goes to each and every country and judges their power breaker and outlet

Hotel receptionists question him, outlets hate him, breaker boxes fear him. This man is insane

This man is legit a genius, he makes a short video and then gets to write off the entire vacation as a business expense

"They set the city on fire, before i could get the chance to do it myself!" -Mehdi Sadaghdar

"Hello, I have tripped the breaker for my room" "What were you trying to do?" "Trip the breaker for my room"

If I ever see a news headline saying "A massive black out had taken place in Italy", I would immediately guess the answer of who caused it in the first place without even having a second thought

Medhi's family: "Let's enjoy the scenery of Italy!" Medhi: "WhErE Is ThE FuSe BoX?"

As an Italian, is really pleasant to know I'll probably not die from touching things I'm supposed to don't touch

He takes the word "Trip" to a whole other level

ElectroBOOM is the only guy that I genuinely believe would go “sightseeing” oversees just to look at some electrical plugins.

Hi there, italian certified electrician here! Ground fault protection is not only mandatory everywhere, not only it has to protect the whole apartment, it went from best practice to mandatory to split the two circuits(lights and outlets) for extra protection and safety! (Every public accessible facility, be it hospital, hotel or whatever, has to check the time it takes to break the circuit just in case the GFP is starting to kick the bucket and replace the "slow" ones to keep staying open)

I love the fact that the whole family is enjoying the beautiful views and the trip and Mehdi just sticks probes into sockets and pops the breakers. I love this channel

The kind of vacation adventure only electricians will enjoy: figure out the electrical installation of other countries 😂

I’d love to imagine one of these days a receptionist recognizes him on check in and simply tells the maintenance guy to sit by the breakers all night just waiting till he trips them with his test.

The hotel where the GFCI tripping didn't also shut off the lights is an Italian thing. Prior to only a few decades ago it was common in Italy for buildings to source the electricity for their lighting fixtures and sockets from different providers, and consequently on buildings that were electrified in that era the sockets and lights are on completely separate circuits.

Italian sockets have two side holes 10A (small) and 16A (large) then there are sockets like those in the video which are called 10/16A sockets with double holes, the shuko plug (CEE 7) cannot be inserted in either in the 10A socket nor in the 16A and not even in the 10/16A because the center distance is different, only by forcing it a lot you can insert it but you shouldn't because the earth is not connected, the Italian legislation requires at least a differential general switch and separate switch for sockets and light (16A for sockets and 10A for lights) protected against short circuit and overload, 0.01A RCDs are sometimes installed in bathrooms for greater protection, these are the minimum required by law but usually many more switches are installed in new plants, the colors of the cables are blue: neutral, yellow green: earth, all the other colors: live, specifically black, brown and gray are used for the three live or fixed live, all the others for the controlled live (lights , relay etc)

Fun fact: Here in Italy we call RCDs "salva vita" literally meaning "life saver"

I could watch a whole series of this random dude popping breakers around the world while on vacation.

As an electrical installation contractor myself these videos really did remind me about these basic but very important stuff, which he presents in a hilarious fashion. Can't imagine if I'm the hotel manager and there's some random dude tripping every single outlet he could possibly find lol

The one at 9:14 is an old proprietary telephone socket from producer BTicino (mod. 2021), it was used in the '80s for sure, maybe even the decades before. I think they still produce the plugs, but not the sockets.

Imagine if Mehdi became a full on travel vlog that goes around internationally, popping every breaker on the grid

I love Mehdi just casually wandering in the electrical rooms of hotels like they are in free access.🤣

4:50 his wife is in bed and has to suffer the consequences of his shenanigans lol

11:21 the bell ring of judgement.

15:22 actually that plug ("german" schuko) normally does not fit in that socket! That socket is either broken by somebody doing what you did previously (and it takes a LOT of force to do that the first time, the prongs are closer together and they're way thicker than the hole normally), or that socket is not up to standard. Glad you enjoyed your time here! I'm happy to know that at some point I was less than 20km from you, lol.

The “doors” in the plugs are children protection, seems like they work fine :)

I hope he doesn't come to Brazil. He could burn the entire hotel here 😂🔥

"I don't want them to figure out about my behavior" only now did I die laughing

In Italy we have 3 types of plugs: the 9:22 one (maximum 10 amps, called "small Italian socket"), the most common as 4:19 (maximum 16 amps, called "Italian socket") and the European standard socket at 15:17 (maximum 16 amps). What you said at 15:22 is usually wrong, you cannot insert a European male plug into an Italian female socket (that socket was worn out or just plain broken) so you always get a ground connection. In Italy we had 220VAC 50Hz (or 380VAC three-phase 50Hz) but now we have almost switched to the European standard 230VAC 50Hz (or 400VAC three-phase 50Hz). So somewhere in Italy you can still have 220V AC 50Hz (but I think you measured 222V AC at 1:45 just for the fluctuation of the power grid). Also: Every house or building in Italy has an RCD but we don't have a specific RCD just for the bathroom. As you reported correctly, normal trains run at 3KV DC while high speed trains use 25KV AC 50Hz which is a common European standard. I have never seen the outlet at 9.16. By the way, nice video!

Let’s make Mehdi the best International Electrical Inspector. 😎 ..and welcome to Europe 😉

This is more worth watching than sleeping

Have you ever considered visiting Finland to test our electrics?

i like how mehdi cuts seamlessly from having a nice vacation with his family to “engaging my potentiometer”

9:11 it's a phone plug by BTcino. In the 70s they tried to introduce a whole new type of plugs for electricity and phone called "Magic" providing extra safety. The project turned out to be a commercial failure, but some of these plugs can be found in hotels originally built in the 70s and 80s. That one in particular is a BTcino Living Classic 4521.

I love this guy. Given the choice between full vacation and no work and 7/8 vacation and 1/8 work, he chooses to vacate AND work! Shows he truly loves his job. Love you Mehdi!!

Don't try this in India 😂😂.... Whole village breaker will pop open

Having the external breaker box be located next to receptions head is such a genius idea. It's not an event that should happen often, and when it does, you want to know about it as quick as possible. Between saving people's lives to stopping fires or starting evacuation before they grow large. Very simple and great idea.

Would be hilarious if hotels start putting out new design guidelines to hide breakers and a warning poster for staff with Medhi's face on it.

In Italy is really common to have 2 different types of gfi. 0.03A as general purpose for the entry home and 0.01A for the bathroom, pool pumps and jacuzzi. Good job man 👏

10:59 Bahaha just burst out loud laughing with tears down my face in my dead silent office😂😅

Small explaination from an Italian SW engineer who grew up working with her father in cabling their whole home (he's a Electrical Engineer/architect): the three holes outlet is called "Bipasso", the small one is for 10A while the bigger one for 16A, the hole in the center is the ground. We also use the german "Shucko" plug (the round one) for heavier appliances (usually 16A appliances) that are sold worldwide (eg washing machine). Ground fault protection applies to the whole circuit in the home (all plugs are covered) as the (larger) breakers have it integrated (they're literally called "Salvavita", literally "life savers"). the "doors" in the plugs are a safety standard introduces around 15-20 years ago, so older plugs don't have it. The standard for modern circuits (at least the ones I saw my father design) is the following: main breaker -> room light breakers & room outlet breakers So, each room has two breakers, one for lights and one for outlets. Then, there's a main breaker for the whole house. They are all Salvavita (with GFP) - then we have smaller breakers (without GFP) for sub-sections (eg. left wall of the living room, right wall of the living room, kitchen appliances, kitchen usable outlets, etc)

9:16, that is usually refereed as a "bticino Magic" plug standard, it's very old and doesn't get used anymore the only difference with normal plugs is that it can't be reverted and it sits flush with the wall we stopped using those when we adopted the shuko(the round plug with the extra earthing) standard from Germany the outlets door are a MUST and required by standard the italian name is “gonne” (skirts) as you noticed we have a “small plug” and a “big plug” the small plug only goes up to 10A 220v and the big plug goes up to 16A , the standard Italian contract goes up to 3KW single phase 220v if you have more questions feel free to ask :)

6:53 who else was expecting an explosion at this point?

Kind of funny. When I'm on vacation, I look at the landscapes and don't try to trip fuses. But everyone has their hobby

My daughter and I have been watching your channel for years. She started to become interested in electronics at a young age. She played a joke for me where a capacitor blows up when I press a button. You have inspired so many. Keep it up.

I love how this dude goes on vacation, trips a breaker, then gets 30% back from write offs

9:15 That's an outlet called Magic! Made in the 60s/70s by the BTcino

this makes me want to go to italy so bad, the clips of the scenery is so beautiful

I wanted to say something about the "Shuko" inside the "Italian" standard outlet. It shouldn't fit, but with a LOT of effort you can force it in (i've never seen anyone do it btw). To me this indicates that the outlet where you put it was probably forced by other people in the past, tourists i assume, and slowly it became much easier to plug it in. Of course that's not intended and you will find that on an outlet that didn't receive abuse it won't easily fit.

the cut away at 14:04 before her score was shown indicates she scored a lot higher than Mehdi.

Love your content, never stop being you! Thank you for the constant enjoyment and entertainment.

Do you know that in Italy it's mandatory for hotels to check every two years the efficiency of grounding system? Only specially trained and authorized people can do it!

12:05 agh they set the city on fire before i get the chance to do it myself .....😵😵😵

I love how his daughter and wife are looking for and enjoying the beauty of Italy and hes like "where breaker box?!"

This man took dedication to the next level 👏👏

1:48 It's probably the same in Italy but here in France the voltage the provider guarentee is 230V +/- 10% so a voltage between 207 and 253V.

When Mehdi was fidgeting with the potentiometer in the wall socket, my lights started flickering and the storm knocked my power out for a few minutes lol. Thank you for the immersive experience Mehdi, I appreciate you engaging the viewers more 😆

i love how his daughter and wife are on vacation but mehdi touring the world reverse engineering the electrical standards of other countries

I love how the breakers are by German company Schneider "Sicherungsautomaten". That's a German word for "automatic breaker"

1:35 Italian sockets according to the old standard. There is a 10A version 9:24 and a 16A version. The distance between the pins is different. But there are 16A sockets that also accept 10A plugs. The Protection Earth is the third pin in the middle. 2:34 C 16Amps for the sockets and C 10Amps for the light. yellow-green is PE blue is Neutral, black, braun or gray are live, European standard. 7:19 RCCD with 0,03A = 30mA. CAMERA 5 means room 5. 15:17 modified Schuko socket type F, fits old Italian system too. The plug is for type E + F

hi mehdi, I'm Italian and I can confirm that everything works like this here, usually in new buildings for about twenty years, breakers (lifesavers in Italian) have also been installed in the bathroom, but the reality is that there is always one or more protections, for example in my house the electric line of the lights and the one of the electric sockets are separated, if a socket is short-circuited the lights can be used, just to go and reset the "lifesaver" :) in addition there is another breaker upstream before the electricity meter (in case one of the two downstream does not work correctly), so in my case, if we consider the bathroom as a starting point, there are 3 breakers before the electricity meter.

Other people : "The vacation trip was great, might as well take good rest at the hotel." Mehdi : "Haha, this breaker need to be test, cuz it be a good trip to see."

Your passion for electricity related stuff is inspiring.

8:25 ..hehhe i can turn off the entire hotel 😈😈 no not rn 🤣🤣

Fun fact: as you can see at 7:21, in Italy we have Ground Fault Protection breakers commercialized as “Salvavita” which literally means “Lifesaver” Anyways, props to you who managed to shove a Schuko 15:28 into that socket. All of my attempts always miserably failed

I’m headed to Italy with my family in a couple of months too. Glad to see Mehdi took the time to do so already so that I can visit the country armed with all the TRULY important information

Thank you for this wonderful trip

The first like 20 seconds are just too good 😂😂 amazing content, just amazing!!!! 💜💜

You can't even imagine how under pressure I felt when I saw that Electroboom was going to judge my country's domestic electrical system.

3:38 There is something wrong with the colours of the wires, they are reversed. The Italian regulation says that the neutral conductor should be the blue one, probably a tecnician accidentally swapped the two conductors at some point upstream. It is't that unusual. There is more freedom about the colour of the live wire instead. It's usually black, brown, gray or red. With that said, i really hope you enjoyed your time in our country!

That's for the walking over Treadmill electric now. 4:05 🤣 Woah the break *pop* to ear hurts and fall! 🤣

I’m italian and i’ve been following you for about an year now…and seeing this video just now for the first time is freaking epic😂😂😂😂❤️❤️

Love how Mehdi is the only guy who can take a nice trip to Venice and rather than talk about the local culture instead says "How can I mess with the electrical in my hotel room!?" 🤣

Medhi's family: explores Venice and more Medhi: I NEED TO SEE THE BREAKERS AND SOCKETS

its beautiful to see you doing experiments in my country

i actually saw you in Matera, at the tables of the cafè where i worked, but i was too shy and you looked busy so i didn't come to say hi, thanks for the tip anyway :)

The live and neutral look "double-drilled" because Italy used to have slightly different sized outlets for lamps vs appliances w/ electric motors, because they billed those at different rates in the old days.

4:38 This was unexpected 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Mehdi you should visit Latinamerica, its like Disneyland for electricians. Love you

The bell was warning the city he arrived 😂😂. I love his videos. Alot of information inside of comedy 😂😂

Normal people: Let’s check the famous locations Medhi: FUSE BOXES! SHOW ME WHERE THEY ARE

When I asked my electrician if they have a ground fault protection at 5mA he said: "Bathing your toaster shouldn't be fun, but scare the living crap out of you."

9:30 The sound of POPING breaker in the room

i love this hahahaha the transitions makes me so happy

9:15 that's an old telephone outlet. It looks very similar to the so called "Bticino Magic" plug. It was created in the 70s as a more safe and irreversable plug by the italian company Bticino, but it really never took off, in fact it only really lasted until the early 90s.

"Camera" means "room" in Italian. It took me a bit to figure out why he tripped the breaker for camera 5.

11:40 "it's been delayed" WELCOME TO ITALY, where not a single train is on time HAHA!

Don't try in India 🌚

I am an electrician in Northern Italy and the 2 different plugs are for different circuits. The smaler one is for the as we call it Light circuit witch has a 10A braker and 1.5mm² wires for smaller appliances and a second "Force circuit" with bigger and thiccer plugs, 2.5mm² wires and a 16A braker. Also we have seperate 16A brakers for things like wasching maschines, electric stoves or furnaces and dishwashers.

People like Mehdi are the reason hotels have to leave their breaker room unlocked 😂

10:50 in good instalations the outlets and the lights are on different GFCI , so if one of both pops, you are not sitting in the dark. But all the outlets of a house have to have a gfci. For good reasons often the fridge has its own.

14:14 look at all these people unaware that they’re in the presence of a certified electrical engineer

Hi Medhi, i'm italian and i'm now explaining you some things :) Here in italy you must have a 30ma braker to cover all the house. Then in newer homes you have 3 brakers, 1 16A 30ma for plugs (the 16A plugs are the ones with the bigger holes or with the small and big holes together), 1 10A 30mh for lights (10A are also the plugs with only the small holes), and the one 5ma to cover only the bathroom area (they must be all in the same place and in a visible spot). Bye Bye

4:35 LOL this is why i love electro BOOM

"So, what did you think about Italy?" "Beautiful breakers.. Just beautiful!"

In Italy, local regulations mandate the use of a RCB for the whole house (we usually use more than one, for example one for the outlets and one for the lights) and there is a good reason for that: We use a TT system instead of the more common TN. In the TT systems all of the ground wires coming from the outlets and the permanently installed appliances are connected to one or more earth rods buried around the building.... and nothing else. Every building shall have his own ground which must be separated from the mains (no connection between neutral and ground is allowed). In case of a dead short between the live and the ground, the fault current shall travel inside the ground wire, inside the ground rods, than shall travel trough the earth and coming up from the ground rods installed inside the transformer shed to reach the neutral connection..... this means that the earth system shall be able to handle the entire fault current in order to trip the breaker!!!! Using a RCB vastly simplify the things (now the earth rods are required to carry only 30mA instead of hundreds of amps!!!) BTW: Light blue = neutral Yellow wire with green stripes (bicolor wire) = earth Brown, black and gray = live conductors (any of these colors are allowed in a single phase environment, for example to have a distinction between circuit1, circuit2 and lights, but of course three different colors are useful in a 3 phase environment). Any color (except light blue and yellow/greeen) = switched lives (for lighting fixtures). The electrical distribution system is 400V 3-phase with neutral (subscriptions up to 6kW are supplied in single phase between one phase and neutral, larger subscriptions are supplied with all of the 3 phases).

You visited one of the oldest cities in Italy. I designed some electric implants, so I can confirm: Italian plugs have a design that prevents the insertion of a single terminal, and 2 different plug rated to 10 A max vs 16 A. Every house has differential breaker just under the main switch. Even our suppliers meters include a differential with idn 0,003 A So that the whole implant is protected from the source. Problems (in home environment) starts because we put in series a lot of differential breakers with the same idn rate so you are not granted that is the nearest one the that breaks when something goes wrong. We should put decrescent idn and reaction times switches in order yo perfect the system. In some hotel bathroom or other applications we have 0,001 idn so is safer, and hopefully you'll break terminal circuit instead of the main one for a local problem.

8:19 Man, I can totally feel you there. 😂

If I owned a hotel, and Medhi had come to it, I would tell him where are the breaker boxes 😂

8:20 the intrusive thoughts came in