Love these service calls. Makes for a easy day.

Man, I was about to call an electrician and decided to check youtube and found this video. Problem fixed ! Thank you so much.

Can we just take the time to admire how professionally done this panel is. Someone takes pride in their work!

All trades have those sort of calls. Love em

That is some neat breaker panel.

That was a nice clean panel box

Thanks for putting this together! Just sent this to my tenant and I'm hoping it solves the power issue!

Thank you so much! Just save me money.. as a single person I really needed this video.

This video was the most useful one I found. I unplugged everything in my house. Switch it on and off and it worked.

Your second solution just fixed my problem. I walked into my kitchen this morning and the coffee maker was out, all the outlets not powered. I started to stress. I restarted the breakers, nothing. It never occurred to me to find the gfci outlet to reset and wha-la! Issue fixed! Thanks!

That aggravates me when I drop the project I'm doing and when I get there that's all it was.

*thanks bud, this video resolved my issue!*

Thanks a lot lol my breaker flipped idk how to turn it back on it’s 11pm lol trying to game and this helped alot! Straight to the point

Wow very helpful thank you so much

One of my favourite callouts whilst working on maintenance was someone saying their lamp wasnt working and I got there and the plug was smashed open with exposed wires everywhere, i wonder what the problem was 😂

I used to do security camera installation and service. I couldn't tell you how many times I got called to locations because someone had turned a power bar off or the power bar breaker had popped or similar things like that.

Also, gfis often cut power to anything down the line. So check them even if its not a gfi thats not working.

Helped so much !!!

Thank you so much. Saved me money.

Thanks for sharing 🙏 ,the video saved our night and I was able to have the fridge/freezer work again.

Thank you!

Boy I sure am glad that you told them that the manufacture of GFCI's added a end of life chip. The new GFCI's will only reset a certain amount of times.

You’re amazing life saver

Honestly I don't know how doesn't try these first. But your knowledge is worth the money. Electricity is no joke.

Thank you!!

Dude. Your tip got my circuit back on! You people are ok. 😊

Dam I appreciate this 😂

Thanks man

Thank you so much❤❤❤❤❤

Thank you! Two out of three of my outlets went out at night! I wasnt sure if it was from having my A/C on and a lamp that kept flickering but I tried one of the breakers and it worked!!

Thank you!!!

Thank you for this!! I was about to put in a work order

Don’t tell people this stuff. I love these calls. This morning dispatched at 7:30 so on the clock. Got there at 8:45 walked in “these outlets aren’t working since your installers were here” check the panel all good see a little sub underneath with a tripped mini, booya it’s gonna be a good day.

Man, thank you thank you thank you!

That distro panel gave me a stiffy. Clean af

So if my issues aren’t resolved by those… any suggestions? Whole group of wall sockets won’t work

Damn that panel is cleannnnnn

Maintenance worker here theses calls can be a nuisance probably 90% of the time the gfi can be reset and the breaker but I always keep extra outlets in the truck just incase

Thank you so much...I lost power to my kitchen island and the wall outlet...I just pressed the GSCI button and voila it worked! Thanks again...

Those 90 degree wire bends into the breakers kill me. What an OCD thing. Labels are a nice touch for the next guy.

It works. Thank you🎉🎉

How do you check if a breaker is triggering under load without risking causing a fire Incase it doesn’t trigger?

Don't tell em, we charge $120 service fee to reset these 🤣🤣

I do HVAC, in the winter we always get calls that the system is cooling instead of heating. 90 percent of the time it's the fan on continuous blow or the circulate function set at the tstat. 👍👍

Thanks bro

I flipped it the wrong direction I was confused for so long lmao

TY SO MUCH

It’s so annoying but relieving when ppl call for tripped circuts

Hey man, my plug-in switch wasn’t working till I watch your video. It was stuck in the middle. Thank you so much.

You saved my $100+ and my precious time. Thank you, Sir!

Thanks

Same over here, some RCDs that's GFI to you have the function fully flick it off then flip it back on.

Thank you! thank you!!!!

Face plate screws up and down bro that’s day one stuff

Some old type BR breakers trips with handle stuck in on-position. I had few customers who did not find tripped breaker, but had no power. I just touched handle slightly it moves to tripped position (middle).

GFCIs in garages too. Got a call for that the other day. Tried telling the guy to reset them. Sad part was the yellow indicator light was on and the reset button was sticking out (cooper instead of a leviton).

Absolute legend, I love you bro thank you. Power randomly went out at 2am had no idea what to do

That's what I like about cutler hammer c h breakers. They turn completely off when they trip. So there's none of that confusion on how to reset a breaker

I couldn't get my power back to save my life after I tripped it. I overlooked the GFI... you saved me! Thanks, bro

Yes my other half of house is back on thanks. Did both and they came back thank goodness I was about to go in corner and cry 😂

Thank you 🙏😭I put taquitos in the microwave and chicken in the toaster (oven) and it overloaded 😂

Very helpful boss man

That panel took time, that will be easy to pull more circuits into because the base panel was done RIGHT!

Wow watching this and knowing this is not common knowledge is really surprising. I have known all this stuff my whole life. Several decades but I was obsessed with electricity since a small child.

My outlets in two rooms don’t work I went out to try to turn it on by turning off the breaker and back on but the outlets are still not working what could be the issue. The strange thing is power comes on to these rooms once in a while and then it turns off often on without turning off the breaker

Resetting the breaker is the easiest part of the service call. The difficulty is explaining to some people why they can't plug 3 heaters on the same circuit.

Though, how much did you charge just to come out? And do the simple 2 little things.

Tysm

Thank you I just did it.. my fridge wasn't working.. I was going to call AHS thank God I washed your video

As a contractor I declare 📜 you're doing God's work 🙏 thank you 🤣

I've seen a non-working bathroom outlet in a townhouse condo, all breakers fine. It turned out to be a tripped GFCI outlet in the basement / garage that was feeding the bathroom outlet. 🙄🤦‍♂️

Yes, and the unfortunate part of this story is, if it is something as simple as a tripped breaker or GFI, the Electrician should adjust his service call price to reflect what he found, but no, they charge the full price. I was an electrician for a while in my working career, and that was one of the things that helped me change my career. I became an Electrical Engineer. I knew I would never make a good living as an Electrician because of having to rip people off.

tried both and my plugs still don't work! T-T

The hard one was the outside receptacles going out and needing to trip the GFCI inside the garage

So if my breaker keeps tripping out in the garage like if I blow dry my hair and the breaker is tripping what does possibility mean and could it be costing the extra money? Can you explain part two?

YOU SAAVED ME

What if the outlet is supposed to have a GFCI outlet but does not? I think the GFCI tripped in my POS old house I bought and now my bathroom outlets don't work. In the breaker box there is the breaker box for the bathroom, the one with the little white button. Does that work like a regular breaker? I want my outlets back but I'm not sure how to proceed

What if the GFCI is working but when you test it cuts the power to that section of the house? No tripped breaker? Was wondering cause my iPhone was overheating suddenly and cut the lights out to my room!

That looks like a Square D style breaker, they have that center toggle trip position, also can have a red/orange flag in a window to indicate a short or overload. Then people get confused when it saps back to the middle. The tan colored Cutler Hammer breakers have no trip position, just Off or On. Is this better or worse? Not really just different.

And for a tripped breaker that keeps tripping and when reset it is easily barely hardly touched goes to the middle position? Is a bad breaker need to replace?

Some times gfis can trip other gfis down the line so check em all in the area even in other rooms sharing walls. In my old apartment we had an outlet in the bathroom that never worked until we found another outlet directly above it in the second floor bathroom under the sink with a tripped gfi..... Reset it and the outlet worked. Not even the maintenance people knew about it... Oh well at least it worked

What about for an outlet connected to the breaker box that doesn’t have power? What’s a safe way for me to check if it a breaker issue

This is true AF. Also just changing a light bulb is common

So the gfci doesn’t always have to have a light indicator? I was always told that no light = bad

Gfci requires on all island in kitchen now .

mans a God

What's a good way to charge a call like that?

If it trips, make sure you unplug things from the outlets on that circuit. If it still trips then call an electrician.

All these breakers look different than mine I got a flashing red light with a test button ..it popped when iwent to strip the neutral, I was going to install a simple light from Amazon. It's only grounded at the box😢 but works and light on panel went off after the installation was finished...is this a new type of breaker ???

Whats with GFI buttons not working? Was there a bad batch 10 years ago

What if the gfci is old enough that when trying to see if it will fix the outlets that are out in the kitchen, the test button will not go in at all, and the reset goes in but does not click to show the reset but still has power to the gfci? *hypothetically* when this happened, I already checked the panel, tried resetting the breakers, even changed out the OG breaker for an updated one for safety and updated 2 outlets, Which was the symptom not the problem..

I did all of this and still the lights aren’t working

I notate this in all home inspection reports. Just wish the client's would read the report, lol.

Lfg thanks bro

Easy and simple

But what if my bathroom outlets won't work but there is no GFI reset?

I have a gfci with a light switch. The outlets work but the light does not, what happened?

I love that people can rent or own a house without any knowledge.

The first problem is its a square D residential panel. Joking. But he's not wrong. There's nothing more frustrating for an electrician then to leave a job their are busy. Drive 10-50 minutes to your home. Walk in reset the breaker. Tell you not to run the space heater and vacuum on the same circuit or reset your gfci and then argue with you for the two hour shop minimum change at 150hr. Yes it took only 5 working minutes but regardless that electrician lost at least two hour on the jobsite they were assigned to.

I've made a living on GFCIs.