As a Master electrician with 20 yrs experience I'm impressed great prep work and attention to detail. Keep up the great work

@4dchessplayer516

11 ай бұрын

But if she was a GUY you would of criticized her work....just saying

@bchef4u2p

11 ай бұрын

@4dchessplayer516 that comment says more about you then me. Thanks for your input though I'll have to respectfully disagree with you. Have a great day and stay safe.

@Mike-om4tv

11 ай бұрын

​@@bchef4u2pmaster electrician and a gent for letting em down easy lol

@somethingtrulyhorrifying

11 ай бұрын

@@4dchessplayer516 Did you just call him a simp

@chasedworld0419

11 ай бұрын

Hi sir, I will shamelessly ask for your opinion in my case of a possible breaker fault at my home, would you please kindly tell me your opinion and what do you think about the situation is? So, yesterday our electricity suddenly gone off on 11AM hot day, then I tried to go reset the breaker on and off after 24 hours as I suspect that it can be just a brownout from our electricity provider or we got cut off, While I tried to check, and flick the circuit breakers and it's switches, there's just one light flickering while main switch is on, weak light and flickering.. My uncle and I is confused because we thought the connection is completely cut off according to the electricity provider business center but there's that one weak fickering bulb in our kitchen and or bathroom, depends on what we switch on.

Way to label the panel, taking the time to do the job right. Love seeing someone take pride in their work

I officially have panel envy. That is the cleanest looking panel I have ever seen. Love the prep work. Professional.

It is great to see a female Electrician. I am a retired Electrician and I like your work as I find it first class in quality and code. I am amazed at all the great tools electricians have today. Keep up the good work! Also amazed at the great ladders you have. Well done.

Came over from TikTok. You are an inspiration to our youth. My son just graduated HS and is about to start his journey in to electrical work. I'm constantly sending him your stuff. Thank you, helps make it approachable for him.

@lextheelectrician

Жыл бұрын

That is awesome! Tell him I said good luck !

Okay super glad the KZread gods put this video in my recommendations. I remember going on the job with my dad as a kid and the electrical foreman was a woman and it was such an inspiration to me. Here I am 25 and I'm an industrial electrician definitely in a man's world. It's so nice to see other women proving themselves in the trades through good work. Instant sub.

@chimpo131

Жыл бұрын

😺

@jimreilly917

11 ай бұрын

Excellent work 😊

@johnconnor7501

5 ай бұрын

I am not a woman, but I support u guys supporting each other. 😄

@AllenRussell-qb3qo

4 ай бұрын

She's a fake and, a joke. 🤡

You took a complete nightmare of a job & made it look beautiful. Good to see such great pride in work. Youre a huge credit to the electrician everywhere

Nice work! It would be interesting to know more about the failure. I changed out a panel for a friend after his double pole 30A breaker for the water heater burned the bus bar. He was out of space, so just putting the new breaker in an unused space wasn't an option. You wouldn't believe what we found. I worked like you did including labeling each cable. His house is very old and still had a couple of cables from the 1930's. Because of their age, I wasn't comfortable bending them and possibly damaging the insulation. I had the rest of the cables out and i had my friend help guide those 2 old cables while I pulled the panel down. As soon as I had the panel off, my friend said "why am I wet?". I looked at the panel and saw it was wet in the back. We looked at the service cable and there was a tiny stream of water running out from the inside of the cable! We looked everywhere for a source of water. I thought maybe it was rain water coming through the meter box, but that was completely dry with no sign of corrosion or rust. The wall where the panel was mounted was also completely dry. I removed the service cable and there was a slit in the outer jacket. Whoever had upgraded the service to 100 amps hadn't enlarged the hole where the 60 amp cable came through and just forced the larger cable through. The lower part of the wall is stone which stays cool and can cause condensation. We slit the cable and the whole inside was wet. I removed the breakers from the panel and about half of them were damaged. Most of the bus bar was corroded. I asked him if he noticed any flickering lights, but he hadn't. That surprised me given the condition of everything. We made the hole larger before installing the new service cable so it wouldn't be damaged and develop the same problem.

@algarveworks1931

Жыл бұрын

Water got to it

@ralanham76

10 ай бұрын

Water universal solvent 👍

Great job! So glad to see young folks exceling at the trades. Really hoping you will add safety glasses to your equipment list

@johnkulpowich5260

Жыл бұрын

Been there done that. Those wire's are in your face

@themotivatedone812

Жыл бұрын

as a man in hvac and auto, saftey glasses never beat saftey squints

@Wilem35

11 ай бұрын

The trades suck, you'll be worn out by the time you're 40.

@johnkulpowich5260

11 ай бұрын

@@Wilem35 I'm a electrician. 73. Still going at it. Don't have to. But it's been very good to me and my family

@themotivatedone812

11 ай бұрын

@@Wilem35 yeah sometimes it dose suck, but its good money and its needed if we want this impossible infrastructure to keep running, i been doing auto for 4 years and hvac for 5 its not all that bad if you aint over doing it, dont lift shit you know too heavy and be smart enough to say thats a dumb idea and probly gonna hurt me

I find this tremendously fascinating! It's fun to watch someone do work that they're really good at. I looked for more of your longer vids but didn't find any. I hope you do more longer vids and get away from the shorts. Watching a job from start to finish is quite compelling but I know it takes a lot to shoot and edit it all. But thanks for this one and I'm looking forward to more longer ones in the future. Cheers.

Awesome young lady. Great job taking the time to label the circuits. Slow and steady wins the race. You're a true electrician at heart.

Keep posting these longer format videos there much more educational.

@mjktrash

Жыл бұрын

*they're :p

@bigjoe192

Жыл бұрын

Maybe she don’t have time to do longer videos all the time

@lextheelectrician

Жыл бұрын

That's the plan!

@orion310591RS

Жыл бұрын

@@lextheelectrician Just wanna inform you that YT started suggesting your videos. You earned new sub.

@MarcosElMalo2

11 ай бұрын

@@orion310591RSDitto

Wow Lexi, I'm totally blown away with your work and your know how! You are one sharp electrician. Great video, thank you.

I really like your explanations and these longer form videos. I’m about to start my apprenticeship at 29, transitioning from a career in IT. Was laid off and can’t find anything due to mass layoffs and the overall threat to job security from AI. I figured the trades are where it’s at for job security right now. I will say, people always mentioned to me while growing up how hard the people are in the trades, but based off these comments I see tons of support and positivity from those very people. I’d only ask everyone to try giving your apprentices some of this positivity and encouragement so we can get rid of this stigma from the trade. Many “older” people like me who go into the trades are usually at a vulnerable point in their career, and it would go along way to know that I will have a journeyman who is willing to teach while being understanding and encouraging. Thanks for your excellent content 😊

Love the work you do Lexi! I've never had to deal with that kind of mess but I've moved into apartments and a shared house with some of the outlets getting warm with barely any wattage going through and found loose wires, and in one apartment the outlets were cheap quality and plugs would literally fall out. I've replaced bad breakers but nothing that had burned, they were just older and would trip at not even half their rated amperage.

This is how a professional electrician should always work , very efficient excellent technic. Beast mode 👍

wow that looked like a lot of work! I have watched videos about IT workers doing cable management on network racks. and it kind of reminded me of that. Great job! 😀

Thanks for your vids. It's helpful that you talk about all the issues that pop up as you go along here with the initial issue.

In my 30 years of being in business as an Electrical Contractor, the two brands I have had to replace the most hands down..... is the Square D / QO panels and main breakers. And the old Bryant Panels. Made by Westinghouse. That was a terrible product. I have never had a problem with Siemens Panels. I am glad to say, you do know what you are doing. You have very good electrical knowledge. And you do good work. With painted nails at that..... That I won't do...

It's t so much fun untangling someone's mess but such a good feeling when it's all made right. Good video and narration!

Thank you so much for sharing. I am always impressed when I watch your videos.

Educational and somehow therapeutic. Thank you!

I love watching you and seeing how you do things. I would say great job. I learned a lot just by watching. Thanks for posting

I did panels for most of my short career working for an electrician. I don't know why but I loved doing them. Nice work and brings me back

Nice to see somebody working and knowing what todo. Great job.

I’ve seen this same issue with homeline and Eaton “br” panels. I personally like how “qo” and “ch” breakers attach to the bus bar better.

You are a beast at this! so cool hearing you explain as you go.

Beautiful to watch. Please release more videos like this. Its great to see work done well, why it failed etc

This channel should be the TOP Recommended Video for all kids 17-25! This video is a great combination of tutorial, informational and motivational for young people. I bet this woman will make her 1st million by the time she is 30 and she will have NO College debt, Thanks for giving me a small white pill today, its so rare to see mature people your age in the USA, I normally only see mature young adults from other countries.

@MrShenron89

2 ай бұрын

Dammmm my 34 year old ass walks out lmao

It looks great! So much better than what you had to start with. Good Job!!

Looks super nice, I like that you managed to get them pretty clean even after all the obstacles that you had to deal with. I only had issues with Square D one time but a lot of houses around here use the old federal pacific. the red ones, the worst in the world. Good Job

Nice, neat job!. You might find preprinted adhesive wire labels (they come in books and also plastic dispensers) to be a time saver over hand-writing each circuit number on tape.

Nice job. Thanks for sharing your knowledge. Much appreciated.

Outstanding professional work.

Got a recommendation for your video after watching another electrician's channel, so you're doing something right for the YT algorithm. Nice, informative but concise video, +1 sub. As an aside, I moved into the electrical trade after a fairly decent amount of time working as a 911 paramedic: I would highly encourage you to wear your seat belt. I know everyone has a story of a best friend's brother's aunt's first cousin who had a wreck and swears that if they'd have been wearing their seat belt, they'd have died, and while that can be the case, it's unbelievably rare (I can only think of one example in many hundreds, maybe thousands, of vehicle crashes I worked, never mind the actual data on seat belts). I have worked a number of fatalities that probably would not have been fatalities if the driver/passenger had their belt on correctly. Anyway, seat belt crusade over; great content, please keep it coming!

I'm going to check the tightness of all my panel connections today! I installed it 20 years ago so its a good time.

Just a small suggestion. I work in the Networking and I deal w cables often and everything needs to be labeled and documented. I use the Brady M210 label maker. It really nice and you can have it so it writes the lable longway on the cable instead of around it. It's the best hundred box i've ever spent and it saves me a ton of time.

Love Square D. I use their QO panel and breakers and have used their Homeline panels too. You did a great job!

She does such a great job, keep em coming

Looks good; true professional!

Hate it when circuits aren't labeled or are improperly labeled. Takes so much more time in the long run to figure things out. When making up a panel I always make sure circuits are labeled. If some aren't, I pull out my trusty circuit tracer and get those circuits labeled. Clean work for what you had to deal with and I'm sure I wouldn't be able to do any better. It's been a few years or so and did a panel change out to simply update the system, because the previous was just getting old and the home owner wanted it updated. But it was set in sheetrock and that was a joy keeping the sheetrock intact. Added so much more time. Square D is the boss. That's all I use if possible. Never had issues with it. Did install bad breakers once or twice though. They were bad from the manufacturer and didn't know they were bad until a load was put on them. So easy fixes right there.

about 45 years ago, i joined my father's construction business, then later took the company over. As I learned the trade from electricians, i became a big fan of Square D and today, if i have a panel replacement to do, I will go for Square D if I can get it. Out here in the boondocks, suppliers don't always have a wide selection, so you take what is available in the moment, unless you are able to make the drive to the big city. Great work, surprising that NY doesn't have more stringent and up to date code requirements (some of which, frankly, i think are way way overkill).

Nice job Lexi! Square D is my goto. I think they make the best breakers. All the best!

Nicely done! Keep killing it!

Beautiful job. I miss doing that kind of work. I have never been a fan of eaton breakers.

Eaton/Cutler Hammer is my brand of choice for Panels. The root cause for most of these issues are air gaps between the breaker where its makes contact with the buss bar. Actually any part that is not making a good connection will create excessive heat and cause problems. Great job done here! Keep up the good work!

Lexi, Amazing job of rewiring such a Nightmare panel. I recently wired Both a 200 Amp and a 100 Amp panel and a 100 Amp sub panel including the main underground wiring through electrical conduits into the panel. Excellent job , you can wire my House any time. Did I mention Excellent job?!! Square D system is so nice, I enjoy them.

I don't usually bother pulling out breakers or loosening terminals when I do panel changes. I just cut everything off as close to the termination as possible. Not the feeder if I can help it, but sometimes it's faster to cut them, rather than fight stuck terminals. In a 40 circuit panel, that really has more than 40 circuits in it, it saves a ton of time. Great work though, you cleaned it up real nice.

Thanks for sharing your knowledge!!

Excellent video ! You obviously take pride in your work. We need more young people in the trades !

Awesome work!

An absolute true and young professional!

Looked good by the end. Well done.

Great job! Keep up the great work

Love your channel, please make more long videos like this one. Thanks !

Looks a lot better now after all the swapping of the burnt equipment.Nice work

A very well made, enjoyable, and informative video. Great to see a woman in the trade! Liked and subbed!

Hey I loved the video and I’m glad to see you support the TC brand! “Dirty hands Clean Money!”

Great work! I noticed you had a lot of shadows in the panel while you were working. I personally like to use my Milwaukee tower light when doing a panel swap, assuming I can fit that beast in the room. It extends up to 7ft or so, which allows the light to shine down over you, rather than your body blocking the light from the flood lights that sit on the ground. I also have a couple of their small, pivoting flood lights. They’re magnetic, so you can stick them to the panel and they rotate past 180deg to shine the light into the panel. The tower light is pretty expensive, but the pivoting lights are affordable.

@thepewplace1370

11 ай бұрын

Dude, if you're messing with those, you need to give their headlamps a try (the ones with the 18650 rechargeable batteries, not the AAA models). I have the low profile 600 lumen I use on my head and then the 600 lumen spotlight one on my hardhat and I spend a lot less time messing with site lighting, dancing with my own shadow, etc. I still get out some of the M18 lights from time to time (usually just for safety in a totally dark space) but the headlamps are productivity game changers.

@xxMacDaddy84xx

11 ай бұрын

@@thepewplace1370 Agreed, I’ve got a couple of their headlamps. Can’t remember the lumen output, but they’re ones with the rechargeable battery that’s in most of their personal lighting platform, like you mentioned. I was always tempted to stick with a AA or AAA powered headlamp bc I didn’t want to run out of batteries on the job site. In reality, I never seem to have batteries when I need them. Since the folding also take that battery, I always have plenty of them charged and on-hand now.

@thepewplace1370

11 ай бұрын

@@xxMacDaddy84xx yeah I think we're probably talking about the same models. I had that AAA for a while and I gave it to a helper. It would get so dim, so fast, and burn through batteries, which adds up quick, whereas I keep one of the USB chargers hooked up in my work truck and a spare charged battery in my work belt, I'm never without enough to make it through the day. I want to get some of the little USB magnetic folder lights. Sounds like you like yours?

@xxMacDaddy84xx

11 ай бұрын

@@thepewplace1370 yeah, I’m a fan of mine. You get a lot of light output in a very small package. It’s a pretty wide beam for something that’s small enough to fit in your back pocket. I haven’t used the clip on it yet, but use the magnet all the time. I’ve also been trying out the neck light lately. It’s been really nice for crawl spaces and lasts for at least a few hours on one of those usb batteries. There’s not much of a difference between high and low, so I run it on low for a much longer run time. It’s got two lights that can swivel independently of each other, so you can illuminate a good sized area. Only thing to get used to is that it’s on your neck and not your head, so the light doesn’t move with you as you turn your head.

Awesome work 👏

I would love to see this through a helmet camera or head cam. It’s hard to see how skilled you are from a distance. YOUR Amazing❤❤❤

I love seeing all the experienced folk in the comments approving your work. pretty wholesome to me haha

Master Electrician in RI here. Great to see smart women in the trade. Good for you! I don't miss that residential stuff one bit though!

just started my apprenticeship 2 months ago this is great info

Lexi, good luck to you on YT! Liked/subbed. It's great to see more women in the trades - especially electrical.

@lextheelectrician

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the sub! Working on engaging more here it’s just a lot of work 😂

Your amazing I love you work I have Done electrical work for almost ten years And would love to work with you and learn more you are awesome

Great job all around ! You scared me not wearing safety glasses with the ends of the wires so close to your eyes. But hey like I said great job !

She's Beautiful smart....and a Great Electrician.... I feel some kind of way because I was never trained like her. Thanks Sis ❤

Most of the residential panels I open up and look in. Don't even look that good so the fact that you had one damn near blow up on you and you still made it Look that good. It says a lot. I can only imagine what your panels look like when you actually have long enough wire and enough time to sit there and make it look neat. Well done! You took a shit sandwich and you made it look like a Big Mac 👏👏👏👏

Looks soooo good!

Great Job!!

Nice job. Great video!

I am watching you on FoxNews as we speak and I see my two daughters in you. Great story and channel. Subbed and sharing, and thank you

This was a great video! "Not the neatest", lol! Lots neater than some I've seen.

As a master electrician and ICC inspector (34years). Great job. FYI you stated you labeled the breakers, mention to viewers that the directory filled out is code. Because most don't know thar. Also your old panel had a mix of brands, Siemens and Eaton, which is a violation and probably a patial cause of the issue. As for Square D. I have not seen homeline cause that. Siemens, I have seen so many. FYI bushings are required on any fitting 1" or larger.. Again, Great job

Great job love the content thanks for sharing

awesome videos !!! keep ‘em coming

You ever run into scenarios where someone over does it with ground wires? Such as: when the breaker panel was replace at a house i used to rent, the installer had put a junction box in the attic to then run EMT out the attic and to the panel outside. This being metal conduit it was grounded to the panel which itself was grounded to the water pipes and Earth ground as per code. The installer had put a bus bar in the junction box, then ran 14 gauge ground wires for every circuit going through the EMT (about 40 circuits (THHN of Hot + Neutral + Ground)) to the point they were struggling to pull it through and even some how managed to tear the insulation on one of the hot wires which shorted to ground and popped the breaker it was connected to. I spoke with the installer and informed them that NEC code didn't call for that many ground wires in a metal conduit and it needed only the conduit plus one or two additional ground wires for good measure, because the junction box + EMT + panel served as a conductor to ground as well. installer opposed it in every way shape and form saying that can't possibly be code and that every circuit needed it's on ground line to the panel. what are your thoughts on this?

Awesome you have a trade that pays well. Beautiful work!!!

OMG My favorite TikTok electrician! So excited to watch this vid, ok back to the AC issue

Beautiful job! 🙂

Bravo Lexi! You rock!

As an aviation mechanic, if you secured all the wires so they can't vibrate and rub, that panel would fly!!! Great work!!

Great job. I may have missed you answering the question of what caused panel failure with the DP breaker??? Again great work

Lexi very new to this channel as it came up in my feed. I wanted to point out a very dangerous situation that MANY electricians fail to realize until the damage has been done. At the 8:29 mark you are placing yourself in a dangerous situation. My brother who has been a certified electrician for 30 years made his typical safety bad decisions which cost him his left eye. Seeing your face near those lines without eye protection is cringe mode. My brother is always preaching the safety side now because he made the mistake of not wearing eye protection. Just trying to keep you safe and with both eyes in tact!

Good work!

Excelente trabajo 🤩✨

Well you Young Lady have again demonstrated that there is a great need for Young Ladies to enter the electrician trades. You have shown exactly what everyone should remember The 5 P's of doing a perfect job. Nicely done.

The only squareD I have ever used was SquareD busbar trunking wich I installed in a crisp making factory and I found the squareD busbar an excellent product easy to install and the components were large and robust so yes I think squareD is an excellent product

very neat and organized

0:07 I then proceeded to turn to my peer and say "You need to go change this panel immediately" and then they looked at their subordinate and said.... 🤣 had flashbacks of military life, everyone telling someone else to do the work.

awesome job Lexi need to try the quick panel time saver

Great job!!! 🤙🏽⚡ Saludos desde Argentina

Very nice, tidy work!

Beyond competence is excellence. Keep at it.

I'm from Chicago and we are big in Sq D products, never any issues like that. Sq D was based in Chicago until Schneider bought them out. Great job on that replacement.

Nice work and thanks for sharing! How many wires did you have to lengthen? Was this a multi family residence? That was a mess of wires for sure.

Awesome installation

The panel looks nice and neat!

Wish I was allowed to pull the meter where I live… gotta wait for the lineman to come out because they own that side of things.