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Many people are easily intimidated by do-it-yourself electrical projects. In this video, learn the basics of how electricity works in your home. You’ll be surprised to discover that many simple wiring jobs are not as difficult as you might think. For more DIY information, visit www.homedepot.com
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@mattyp8516 sorry i replied to your post instead of @uptilwhen
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@uptilwhen Your friend is obviously an ignorant person who thinks he is better than the rest. To laugh at something like that shows what he knows and to say that we are more than monkeys says a lot about him.Yes basic electricity when understood is easy.It’s like going to a michelin star restaurant and saying “i can do this” just cos you can make a sandwich.To tar us all with the “monkey” brush is sad. I won’t even use electrical analogy to back up my argument as it will fall on wasted ears.
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@durraniguy another sensible comment… do people not understand!!!
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@mattyp8516 A little bit of knowledge can be a very dangerous thing. Leave work like that to people who have devoted time to learning the trade and as the saying goes… “respect electricity.. and it respects you back”
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@uptilwhen Well, your friend may understand the theory but probably wouldn’t last a day in the field. Obviously that is the case. He has no clue what an actual electrician does if he believes that there is nothing else too it. Just another pompous, know it all, who thinks he is brilliant because he now has a title. It’s almost pathetic.
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@dcdjsystems It is in HD`s best interest to make people believe it is safe to do electrical work on their own home. Their whole business is based on DIYer`s. Contractors rarely buy lots of material from places like that but home owners will, just as long as they are not frightened to do their own work.
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No. Not or electrical tape. Just wire nuts.
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SAFETY. Is of utmost importance. You and get seriously hurt or even die as a result of disrespect for electrical safety. You have ONE precious life. HIRE a trained, licensed, qualified, insured electrical contractor!
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You can only die once so what’s the big deal?
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@dcdjsystems well put and very true
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What a Joke, Promoting that it is easy to do is pathetic. What if you do something wrong by getting the cables mixed up and create a short. Or open up a switch only to get the strappers mixed up with a switch wire in a 2 way lighting system. God forbid you go near a heating circuit. Or let’s say you don’t make a proper connection and the cables start arcing while you are out shopping and your house burns down. If none of the above doesn’t make sense then you shouldn’t go near DIY electricity.
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My friend studied physics up to Phd level. He used to laugh at the ignorance of electricians vis-a-vis electrical phenomena. Most of them are little more than monkeys who learn to connect this colour wire to that colour terminal.
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Delivery was too fast and contained little real explanation. Using trade jargon is not the same as explanation. Knowing what something is commonly called in the trade does not explain what it actually is and actually does to someone not in the trade. As a teacher, you fail badly. There are underlying physical principles which must be understood. Knowing the relationship between potential difference, (volts), current (Amps) and resistance is only the beginning of understanding electricity.
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When dealing with electrical, must be very careful, DANGEROUS
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@TheMrSanchos Ya knock yourself out reading the rules… Try reading the Electrical code or the Delmar…It takes 7200 hours on the job and in school to know the rules and understand there meaning… But by all means play the game and give me a call when you see smoke…
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this is why we have to go back and fix so many homeowner projects, thanks for providing us service calls… dumbing it down and encouraging unsafe handling techniques is not a good plan. Not once did I hear “never work on a live circuit”. seems real simple requirement for a homeowners safety. again, thank you home depot for all the call backs and re-work.
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WOW….so many improper statements in this video. I guess it will serve for a purpose but again alot of incorrect statements are contained in this video. Hope they address them but I wont…lol…unless they pay me to visit all their stores and train the staff…;)
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secure connections with electrical tape??? Not in my house!
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@hitachi088 u have to know the code
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its 120v and 240v when it enters your home 240v for the high power devices and 120 for lights and outlets thats a better definition
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“When a circuit breaker trips the current flows harmlessly to the ground?”
No, … when a circuit breaker trips, it interrupts the flow of current to anywhere unless there is a short. In reference to the wider contact on a two wire plug…”this is a safety feature that keeps power from running to an appliance, even when it’s switched off?” That has nothing to do with power running to an appliance, other than to insure that the case, covering, etc. is at neutral potential, not hot!!! Dummy
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@ocxic go on, continue posting. you amuse me.
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@hitachi088 No, I defended my point in the post above where I mentioned the battery. You have yet to give an intelligent response. Since that post you have been nothing but insulting and condensing. You have offered no meaningful response to back up whatever point you’re trying to make, other then to call me stupid. You are ignorant and childish, and i will have nothing more to do with you.