I used to be a Lineman for NJ Bell Telephone Company ☎️...I've always been a naturally neat & organized person, probably because my mother raised me that way...so, at work, I was always the same way...I always just naturally kept all my wiring neat & organized--it's really not that difficult, & (you're right) it definitely doesn't take any longer...there's also something known as taking pride in your own work, which actually serves as more-&-more of a motivator to top tradespeople as they progress throughout many years in their careers

Great work Karly. Neatness is not a waste of time. Anyone who works on the panel after you will thank you a thousand times for the neatness and designation of the circuits.

Your key insight is that it is easier to arrange wires neatly than not neatly. I've known that a long time from building electronic equipment, but I'm glad to see it scales up!

Is not about waste time... It's about to be professional. 😎 Good job!

@CnuAkoju

4 ай бұрын

Hi made your voice veray nice❤❤❤❤❤

Professionally installed. Lose the word neatly and give yourself credit for setting the bar high. Looks amazing .

I've been in plenty of panels where they were disasters and talk about a pain to work in. I always a clean and neat job. It also shows a level of professionalism and that the electrician actually cares about their work

Just this week I did a control box that was fixed off by someone who was blind. A control box in my industry isn’t quite a breaker box, but watching this it’s the same methods I use. I was faced with zero strain relief and had to extend (low voltage) every wire coming into the control box. Some 60 wires. Point here is, had these muppets installed neatly like shown here, I wouldn’t have had to spend two days sorting the mess and getting the system working how it should. Fault finding was time consuming. Nothing was labelled. Installer might have saved time, but it didn’t work properly and became expensive to fix. The argument that using a neat install method is expensive is invalid. Messy installation just shifts the cost to another time when something goes wrong because someone was lazy. Well done. I feel good about the work I do. Nothing wrong with taking pride in workmanship. Not enough of it anymore.

I would pay extra for your work and attention to detail. The pride you take in the neatness and look of your panel tells me that you truly care about the job you do and directly speaks to the quality of all your work. Seen or unseen. Well done. You are a role model for electricians. Ps. You may want to look into Mike Rowe's scholarships.

Just keep doing what you are doing, girl. It's the right and professional way. If people are complaining. Its probably because they are lazy and don't care about doing a good job. Keep up the excellent work!!!

Hello, I have been in this electricity business for a year and I really love it and when I watch your videos it gives me a lot of satisfaction to see how incredible you are doing it since I met you. I love all your videos, keep it up👏🏻

The best wiring of a load center that I have ever seen. Some electricians should take a page out of your book for neatness, well designation and over all great workmanship. I am in the telecommunications business and I have always taken pride in good workmanship such as yourself. Happy to subscribe to your page Karly.

Always take pride in your work! As a plumber, I know that 90% of my work will never be seen, but I want that person 25 years down the road to open up the wall, during a remodel, and say," dang! That looks good!"

All due respect you shouldn't use an impact driver to terminate wires. Here in the UK we use a torque screwdriver. I know it's slower but it doesn't crush the copper.

Using an impact on breakers is forbidden in my book. Awesome panel!

Always wanted my panels to look like that but they don't. Nice job and we all can learn from you. Thanks for sharing.

Thank for this video !! As a Electrical Contractor for over 35 years it is so nice to see someone who takes the time and care for a wonderful and professional job . Keep up the great work !!

@lazadinho

6 ай бұрын

Is it ok to use a impact drill to torque screw in the panel? I do not know, with your years of experience you may know a thing or two. Just curious.

@williameisenberg1999

6 ай бұрын

@@lazadinho I wouldn’t use an impact drill , even though it’s a little faster ,but you get a better feel when you do it by hand …, Just my opinion !!

@danfrias3714

5 ай бұрын

​@williameisenberg1999 I would never use an impact only a torque wrench or torque screw.shes a rookie

The kind of work you do I would gladly pay for your travel expenses including travel time itself. Gal your work is definitely worth every single penny you ask for!!! NICE WORK!!!

I'm an electrician in europe and i understand nothing from that panel, except how good it looks xD

@bryanherman1035

4 ай бұрын

That's ok. I see European panels and they look pretty alien to me, not that I don't have a basic understanding of how they work. But literally ALL the components are different.

@Ruben_Ruben__

4 ай бұрын

@@bryanherman1035 yes, even wires' color is different

most of the panels I do are rushed panel swaps awaiting an inspectors approval to get the power back on. A lot of the times I have to extend the wires too. I always try to make my panels as neat as possible but sometimes i just got to hurry up and get done. Nice work! I'm going to steal some of those tips from you on the next new construction panel I get. I definitely like the way you do you hot wires!

I'm new here. What are the orange things where you connect the wires to the breakers?

Excellent. Love the attention to detail you place in your work.

You could do another one of these and I would watch it. Start filming most or a lot of your work. Your channel may really grow in a 2-4 years if you put out content. Great work Sparky.

Thank you for the ideas! A troubleshooting video would be awesome :)

Nice work young lady it’s great seeing people taking pride in their work

Beautiful work and great technique !

Nice that you do such a good job!! Its an nightmare finding a problem in an unorganized pannel.

That’s how I wire my cabinets too. Different type of electrical cabinet (industrial components) but same process.

10/10! more step by step, nearly explained videos like this pleaseeeeeee

@karlythesparky

6 ай бұрын

Noted!

@princessofproductivity

6 ай бұрын

@@karlythesparky yey 😁

The work looks incredible but I’m curious why the wire nuts on the end of the conductors before going under the breaker terminals? Im an electrician in AZ and have never seen that before. Canada code?

That looks very organized, dig it!

A thing of beauty is a joy forever. A panel that neat would be so nice to work on for whoever in the tuture.

One thing i do different, instead of the small loop, i run my wire to the bottom corner and back up. More wire is always better imo so theres slack to cut off in the future. Ive done so mani service calls where ive had to pigtail wire because theres not enough slack. With that loop, it wont be an issue for the electrician 10 years from now, but it might be for the guy 30 years from now

The panel look fantastic.

Beautiful work.

Wow you are the best Karly

Karly, great job.

Great work Karly

Love your videos and work ethic. Keep up the awesomeness:)

AWESOME job!!!

When you have a pattern set just follow it. Beautifully done.

I would pay for that work, no question. Great job, keep rockin it.

Beautiful work, it always pays to do it properly in the long run 🏃‍♀️ 👍👍

I would pay extra for work like this in my panels. Well done! Are you using pass through wire nuts against the breakers when you put the wires under them?

Wow! That is so clean looking. I wish you had wired our house. I’m so impressed by your attention to detail. Great job!

@karlythesparky

6 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@chubbies2274

4 ай бұрын

@@karlythesparkywhat state are you in and are u union

Those bends are clean. Some guys like to twist the grounds but its a pita to service.

That's a beautiful panel

Karly makes everything looks like her. Beautiful

Very nice and neat work ❤ 3:53

Nice work.

Love it 💯❤️❤️

Very nice and neat job so professional

Muy bonito , te quedó muy organizado todo

Very Nice !!!

You are Amazing !!!!

Neat and clean

for more speed and efficiency, you might try a tool pouch for the cutters and drill on your side or even in front, having a place you get used to it location because of repetition you won't have to look around for any tools your muscle memory will find them without looking. I would also recommend the makita 7.2v DF012DSE 650/200rpm 21 clutch screwdriver, it's smaller and you can figure out the best clutch settings for each of the screws in the board and the clutch triggers and stops the drill immediately so you don't cam out and damage the screws, no other driver does this. I also use the 1200rpm vessel screwdriver for speed on longer machine screws as it triggers at 0.2nm. Finally, a set of pistol shaped mechanical cable strippers say with a depth gauge.

That kind of neatness takes time, on a panel like that I would be given an hour to do. But we are also required to label all the cables outside the panel as well, so we can mark the panel on our own without a second person running around the house. Workers get more time in non-union.

Very nice and neat. However, here (Canada) you cannot use an impact on breakers. You are required to torque them to spec.

Beautiful… I don’t have a hs diploma yet but man do I wish I was an apprentice

A panel of ART!😃

Parabéns karly com CERTEZA uma ótima profissional.

I appreciate your level of attention to detail and good work ethic. I do have a question though, how do you consider panel load balancing during this stage of attaching conductors? I'm sure you're well aware of the importance of load balancing, but what I've found is more than 99% of electricans don't know another very important reason for load balancing; reduction in the electric usage bill for the customer. I'll explain, because the more electricians that know this the better we can help their customers. There are basically three electric meter manufacturers in the world. They are all designed to report electric usage in a way I find interesting to say the least! If you clamp your meter on leg 1 and read 50A, then clamp your meter on leg 2 and read 10A, what do you think you're being charged in usage? Logic dictates you're being charged for 60A of usage, right? WRONG! How the meters are designed is to report the usage by doubling the leg that is using the most KWh. So with the above example the customer is being charged as if they were using 100A, not 60A! I understand if many are skeptical about this info. Do this simple test, check your own panel at home for load balancing and put as much of the load on one leg without overloading it. Leave it like that for a couple months and note your electric bill usage. Then ballance the load and note your electric bill usage over a couple of months. Try to do it in months where your usage is normally pretty consistent. The proof is in the bill. You will be amazed, followed by being pissed. This was my experience. I found this out from an industrial electrical engineer who works in many different countries. He was just as amazing by this information when he was telling me his experience in a long phone conversation. There you have it. This is why I'm asking about when do you do your load balancing.

@bryanherman1035

4 ай бұрын

Any electrician worth their salt knows this. The easiest way to do it relatively quickly is to determine what breakers will be constantly, or nearly constantly, loaded, how much that load will be, and how to distribute them evenly between the two legs. But it isn't an exact science because most of the time you don't get the chance to take readings when everything is being used as that particular customer would use it. Optimum panel balance isn't easy to obtain without first monitoring that particular customer's normal usage, analyzing that data, and making adjustments. All that takes time, and most customers don't understand why they should pay you for it.

@MicahFunk

4 ай бұрын

@bryanherman1035 Don't you wish everything operated off of 240v? Load balancing complete!

Thank you

“ separate the bonds”??? Oh Equipment Grounding Conductors. Got it. Personal note I think a pair of quality safety glasses will save you one day. Great work nice and neat and the key take away for me is it is systematic which speeds everything up!

What do you use to label your wires? I like how is looks and would like to do that for my house.

what are those red wire nut looking things you put at the end of the wires ?

I've spend a full day terminating a large panel. And I dare anyone to complain about it. Do it right, in a professional manner.. or gtfo. If you're building messy ass panels just to save a little time, I don't want you in my crew.

"If your inspector doesn't approve of zip ties in the panel", that's peak North America detail inspection 😂

@bryanherman1035

4 ай бұрын

They find the dumbest things to make an issue out of....while missing the ACTUALLY dangerous stuff.

You are so right

Am i crazy or them orange connector type things on wire to breaker "wire nuts" i thought ferrules at first but see them lines that wire nuts have ??

Curious, why the wire nuts?

What torque power are you using to tie those screws up at the panel? Or it is just as much as your impact goes .

Hi question 👋 How do you balance the panel loads if you only connect them, how do they come out?

Don't listen to the Backyard Haters. Pride in your work. Attention to detail is what electricians get paid for.

how do you know what breaker goes where when installing them?

Королева-электрик!

Good job mamacita 🙂👍

Very Nice I would hire you and be happy to pay for perfect work

Wish I would of met someone like you when I was younger, Not only are you cute but I would of never have to worry about electrical problems in my house again....lol

Great job! I actually don't trust hasty jobs. Plus I think homeowners appreciate a clean looking panel, as well as the inspector. No need for surge protector in your jurisdiction?

Why are you using ferrules on solid wire. I keep seeing this more and more.

Can you narrate books? Your voice is so sweet 😋 💗 nice work also 😁

Everyone is a critique....I think you're doing a great job and you take pride in your work. You also put out way better quality than half of these guys that have installations looking like dog sht....

respect your are great 🔌🗯️

It looks nice, but is it safe? Neat bundles or wire limit heat dissipation of the central wires. This one is a bit more spread out than others I have seen, where they zip tie them into a round bundle, so lower risk. But how tightly together is too tight? The code limits the number of wires though a knockout for a reason and it has extra insulation and unpowered ground wires also going through it taking space and wicking out heat. These are all current carriers, all producing heat. Something to think about when doing it. I figure a flat ribbon is better than a round bundle. Still looks nice, but can cool each wire on most of its sides.

@bryanherman1035

4 ай бұрын

Heat isn't as much of an issue as most people think in a properly designed system. None of those wires should ever carry enough current to generate enough heat to damage the conductors.

Beautiful young lady doing beautiful work. Hats off to you.

Is it really u doing such stuff

I don't quite understand what you mean when you say you move your hand and then you shape motion. I can't really depict from this video. How exactly you're running your hand along those wires

@1986BBG

6 ай бұрын

Grip the wire in your hand with the pinky towards where they enter the panel, pull down the length of the wire while simultaneously rotating your hand to horizontal (45°) and allow the wire to make a U shape around the outer portion of your hand.

So I’m curious what the red thing you’re putting on the wire after your Romex label is and why are you even using that what is it and what is its purpose, and yeah if you’re not talking your screws with a torque screwdriver you shouldn’t be using that little impact gun, better would be to use a little power screwdriver just to run them down and then come back with your torque screwdriver to finish that off, our inspectors now require you to prove what your torque ratings are And they better be right or he’s gonna make you check every single one with him there, otherwise great work

Shocking

this panel would have u fired and could have your ticket pulled where im from. breakers in a panel during rough in is seen as a huge safety issue even though the panel isnt live yet and wires are capped off. seen people loose their ticket and companies loose their license for this exact thing. plus if thoes breakers dont end up stolen it would be a miracle

@brycekpalmer

5 ай бұрын

Genuinely curious... how is it a huge safety issue? She has the wires clearly capped off as you noted. With all the code requirements for different breakers for bedrooms, general lighting circuits, etc it would seem like populating the breakers and identifying which leg they are for would be a good thing to do for rough in inspection. Especially since you can end up with different size breakers like the dual 15 amp ones she is using for lighting.

@rogerwhiting9310

Ай бұрын

He is just another hating asshole electrician that thinks that HE is the only one that can do things correctly. All they do is fight with each other...right or wrong.

Anyone making a comment on the level of detail you put into your work is just lazy. You get what you pay for and I would have absolutely paid an electrician to keep my panel as organized as humanly possible. That way anyone coming in after to make any updates or repairs can accomplish the work effectively.

why you always put wire futon the cables why you don't connect them

OCD at all?

I've only done low voltage work, but the idea that no one wants to pay you to do a neat job is absurd to me. I can only assume that people who've done sloppy work feel a need to justify themselves with those comments. Either that, or they're looking for something to fault you on because they don't like that someone with your body parts is doing a job well that they feel should be reserved for people with different body parts. Neat wiring is easier and faster to trace, maintain, repair, and modify, and often increases the useful life of the install, so even if it does take a little longer to do the job right sometimes, it saves money in the long run.

@bryanherman1035

4 ай бұрын

I can most assuredly tell you, electricians don't care about what reproductive organs you have. Gender is not an issue. It's about ability and work ethic. If you can perform well, you belong.

I want mine to immaculate, professional, cause it will bother me if it wasn't...

It's crazy that you're getting called out for your work being too neat and a waste of time. Haters gonna hate.. I did a new sub panel in my garage (homeowners are allowed to in my area if they live in the home) and i made it look neat like yours and the electrician that did the main panel in my house before i bought it did the same thing and i really appreciated the quality of their work when i had to go in there to work on the main.

Every time I have gotten a panel, it's been covered in rat shi-et. 😂 Or it's been 1/0 haha. Everybody who's panel I have cleaned up felt safer afterwards. People have always paid for their safety in the future not necessarily for me making it nice.

Per code your hot and neutral are supposed to be bundled together. Why is she calling her egc bonds😂😂

Most job sites would cringe at you taking time on a panel like that. I personally do my panels clean and the same way regardless and all the other JW’s seem to love it, the bosses smile but are always looking at their watches, only issue is using that impact in the panel, that’s not the right tool for panels or switchgear enclosures.

@nooneyouknowhere6148

5 ай бұрын

No one would cringe at a neat panel. Unless they were an idiot.

@1986BBG

5 ай бұрын

@@nooneyouknowhere6148 I speak from personal experience as a Union electrician and I am not talking about other electricians cringing, I am talking about others wondering why you’re taking all that time to do such artwork that will only be seen by another electrician somewhere down the line. Sometimes they want that panel in and done and to do it extremely neat and perfect just doesn’t work out with the time constraints.