Just got a new 200 amp panel and its tripping off a toaster should i call the guy or move the toaster cuz it never did that on my old one

How do you check the amperage on a 240 volt system? Do you add both of the hots together after you check the amp draw with your amp clamp?

Oh man, you stopped the video right when you were getting ready to explain about the wiring being bad! That's exactly what I was waiting to hear you talk about! You really do a good job explaining this stuff to some of us novice's out here! What's up man? My name is Mike and I live in St. Charles, Missouri, I live with my room mate in a doublewide mobile home that was manufactured back in 1993 when all they used were those stab in the back receptacle's, every one of them are the stab in type! About 2 month's ago we had a bit of a cool spell and my room mate plugged in her space heater and all the socket's in her room all the way to the living room stopped working, along with the ceiling fan, the porchlight outside of the main entrance and 5 more receptacle's in the living room! I figured the space heater probably couldn't handle the load, so I went to the breaker box to reset the circuit breaker, when I opened the door on the panel box all of the circuit breaker's were in the on position! I found the one that controls her bedroom and I manually turned it off then on again to try & reset it but nothing happened! I just decided to pull the breaker in question and ran up to my home depot to buy a new one, it is a double 15 amp and each switch can be turned off & on independant of each other. I installed the new one and, "wah lah", everything worked again and I was the hero !!! 3 night's later she went to bed and decided to read a book so she went to turn on a little led lamp beside her bed and all of the light's and receptacle's went out again, a little led lamp overloaded the brand new breaker I just replaced 3 day's earlier !!! I watched all the diy video's on "You Tube" and I heard nothing good about these back stab receptacle's and I intend to replace all of them soon just to save myself more headache's in the future! I seem to think that one of these receptacle's has probably got a short where the wire was stabbed in at and replacing the receptacle should solve the problem, the only thing is I don't know which one it is so I'm just gonna start replacing them all ! I watched your video and you seem very wise when it comes to this stuff and I would respect your advice with this issue! Would it be too much trouble to get your opinion on this please, I would greatly appreciate it my friend! What would you do in this situation ??? Thanks a million bro! ✌

So sorry about Bill’s passing at such a young age. Just watched this video and read in comments his passing. Bill’s video was easy to understand.

Neutral is the return path for single phase power. It only carries current on two phase if there is an imbalance in the load on each leg. Neutral is hot there to protect against lightning.

Has an HVAC apprentice i found this video helpful! Very concise and informative 👌

Maybe show where you have the dial set on the meter next time. Good info here but some will need to know where to set the meter to get the reading.

Explaining complex topics in simple terms is a rare skill. Thanks!

My Wall Outlet doesn't have an outlet connected to the Breaker. It's only a Breaker for each room in house. I have a telephone, which is connected to a wall outlet, and it doesn't give a dial tone. Phone battery has life. I want to ask you, I exchanged a different modem for a One Line modem. I had to replace Cable boxes because of this modem. Now, my Kitchen telephone has no dial tone at all because I replaced the router modem. Did I lose my telephone Jack in Wall due to this exchange? Thank You!

What happens to the 2 amps when it gets back to the transformer center tap?

I have to watch all his videos because I bought a house in South Carolina and I don't know a whole lot about electrical but I do know that the framing addition was done wrong. Whoever ran all the ducting for the HVAC under the house did it wrong. The plumbing I'm going to have to tear out and redo. And whoever put the metal roof made a mess and now I've got dry rot. I don't have the money to hire an electrician I'm a disabled vet on a small income but I got to make sure this place is safe....

Thanks for clear explanation sir

Your version is confusing and wrong. Aps ia across a voltage and load. If load and viltage is the same, the aps will be the same too. And it doest balance a shit.

You may have finally answered a question for me, if a reduced current is flowing on the neutral back to the transformer. The house wiring and the plug set for my electric range contains two #6, red & black, Hot conductors and two #8 wires for the neutral (white) and ground (bare). So, the neutral and ground are sized accordingly to carry less current....correct?

Man so sad doctor your knowledge will definitely live on it crazy how a video works true time capsule

This guy was so good at this he made me think I was a electrician rest in peace brother

Thank you for your simple explanation that us non-electric people understand how home current flows.

What? You missed it. The second one is also just two bare wires that are crossed without a screw or nail, after something pops. You did say "keeps tripping", yes? Well thats usually because hot is crossed with another.

I just think of neutral as a path of unused electron flow back to transformer, if that flow were to be stopped, then the load of appliance will not work because there is not electron flow. I’m not a electrician I do hvac, so I’m probably wrong

I have power to the shed though nothing works

My easy understand - Neutral is a pathway back to Transformer at stastion. Same understanding that, if we physically touch a Live wire, without touching the ground, ie with insulation like wearing rubber sandals, we dont get electrocuted. Neutral pathway is not created. So , Live is incoming, N is outgoing.

Ty very much

Good too know 😊

Great tutorial tips

You should teach, if not already. It took you 2 minutes, with a simple explanation, everyone got it, and that's it. Excellent. Others would need 15 minutes for the same thing.

You are the best

Bill, I just swapped out a light switch. The old one had a receptacle for a neutral wire. Ground was attached to the electric box. The new one I put on is an old conventional flip switch that has a screw for line, load and ground but not neutral. i simply capped the neutral is that ok?

Get to the point I’m so bored I’m falling asleep.

My glass fuses started blowing and after checked everything, I could find no overloads or wires touching anywhere.

Help ful thanks

So I can hook up some lighting to some sliced neutral wire!

Hi Bill, i have one circuit breaker that all the outlets have power but not enough to turn on a radio. There is also one wall light that does have light but very dim light. Suggestions where to statt first? Thank you

This is a dumb video. Because - Typically, three-prong outlets last around 15 years, but they may last longer if they're rarely used. In comparison to three-prong outlets, GFCI outlets last between 15 to 25 years.

How to change breaker

two appliances destroyed had to dump electrical persons said due to water damage never saw water damage what would cause two outlets to stop working and cause it to destroy the appliance

I need tbe next video 😅😂😭 I have taught myself so much today and fixed/repaired/replaced so many things in my home... But the kitchen light has been completely uninstalled, live wires have been tested, breakers have been flipped ans tested ans still no power coming through. I was really hoping to be able to skip getting an electrician as I'm broke and HAVE to learn these skillsets. Thank you so much. Hopefully I can find your other video here in a sec and its something as simple as a fuse issue at the breaker box that I missed or something i havent tried yet or didnt do correctly. ( Also, maybe my balllast ISN'T out afterall. Either way, im upgrading to a new LED fixture when this all said and done lol)

I have power to the outlet . But anything I plug in doesn’t work ????? I replaced the outlets with new ones and nothing still …. !

by far the best explanation and winner for the sweet music track accompaniment 🎧🎧🎧🔊🔊🔊

Would like a link to the 2nd part of the outlet troubleshooting - repairing wall wires. Thank you.

I didn't no bill had passed learnt s lot from you God bless you Bill God speed

You just saved me so much time and frustration. I had a wire that had a gash in it where my wifi router was plugged in

Does that mean if the load isn’t balanced on each side of the panel that the utility company gets back my unused electricity after it has already run thru my meter?

Another YT BS

So incredibly sorry to hear the passing of this man. Does anyone know what happen and if it was electricity related? In this video he mentioned you could die if you get electrocuted by the outlet. Is 120volts enough to kill a man or would it be enough to shock him

Too much extra talk and you gotta speed it up in between examples. No one will die from an outlet.. Unless you're not at all familiar with electricity.. Rubber shoes and gloves.

just what i needed to learn to verify what i need to do to check for a bad GFI outlet.. one thing he didn't point out that is very important regarding the voltmeter is to ALWAYS plug in the black lead FIRST either to neutral or ground... plugging in the RED lead first will cause the black lead to be hot and could arc against anything that could ground it - like yourself - think of it as same as taking the proverbial butterknife and sticking it in the outlet

You missed to mention old wires

Thanks for the info. 👌🏽

When my breaker kept tripping, I figured it was a lose wire in the wall outlet as it keeps sparking on sudden movement. I opened it to find out it was lose wiring with a few burned marks.

The ongoing debacle of what the neutral does and does current flow in a balanced load neutral is a prime example of the fact that no one knows exactly what current is. Current is the hypothetical demon lurking behind our assumptions that we think current flow is electron flow. How then does a 2-phase balanced load cancel current flow at the mid point ? Do 120 degree out of phase electrons cancel each other out at the midpoint node ? No they can't, not mathematically, not by vector analysis anyway. So where does the residual current go ? Think about it.