Wow 9 years ago and I just did a plug. Thank you so much for this info. 2020 and its great information 👍

I did it and its going well im very appreciating for this teaching long live brother

So how about plugs with only 2 wires?

@grassytramtracks

Жыл бұрын

Appliances that don't have a metal casing don't need an earth so have no earth wire. On these appliances, you can just leave the earth pin not connected

Just now doing this for the first time. 😂😂😂 Thanks for the info it helps a lot

What a great way to remember it!!! Brilliant

Thanks for the video. Really filled the knowledge gaps.

This is so helpful. Now i can fix the plugs at home lol xD

DUDE THANKS SO MUCH IT WORKED

Thank you, simple and smart way to teach and remember. Everything working great now

@khalidtrevor9449

2 жыл бұрын

i guess Im asking the wrong place but does someone know of a method to get back into an Instagram account..? I was stupid lost the login password. I love any tricks you can give me

@bentleyisaiah428

2 жыл бұрын

@Khalid Trevor Instablaster ;)

Just realised we have just a live and neutral light wire potruding from wall tiles after removing our old bathroom cabinet, which had a single GU10 spotlight. The new metal cabinet with led light and demister has an additional earth wire that should be connected. I have nothing in bathroom to connect this earth wire to and don't fancy installed a 3 core flex by ripping off the tiles. Is there a way round this?

Thank you I'm in my 70 tH and I never did a plug before my late husband did all I needed here goes

@alikhan-uh3sq

2 жыл бұрын

...so did it all go according to plan?

I needed to connect a lamp fixture to a power cable and this was super helpful for me!

Thanks so much made life easier

How can you go wrong with left and right? That’s cool man! Thank you

the drumming at the start sounded like splatoon music

very informative

Thankyou.

thanks you so much sir im success full try

Straight down (earth), or straight up in this case.

Can I plug only the brown and blue for two wires only and left the earth one?

Great! Just what I needed for physics revision.Thank you :)

Thanks and that L & R facing towards the screw connectors and not from the plug side..

It worked

Great. Thanks connect my fridge my grill my coffee maker my toaster my oven and mocrowaved

worked leptop chàrger

4k 60fps GG BBC

why dont they teach you this at school

@frankiethefrank

6 жыл бұрын

They do! You just weren't listening, I'm afraid...

@frankiethefrank

3 жыл бұрын

@Eden Skirton Constantinou they all follow the National Curriculum old chap

@grassytramtracks

Жыл бұрын

They do. Not much about how to actually wire the plug but they tell you what the inside of a plug looks like and the fuse and wire colours

Can someone explain please if I have a EU double wire and both wires are same colour (it's Christmas lights I broke the plug 😃) how do I determine which one of the two wires is live/hot so I can fit it to UK plug? I have a basic multimeter if that's necessary...

@grassytramtracks

Жыл бұрын

Appliances in continental Europe are designed to be safe to use with the live and neutral being both ways round so it's less important

Shame on you for plugging it into a SWITCHED ON socket!

@grassytramtracks

Жыл бұрын

What's wrong with that?

i save a lot,thanks you so much

This video was published before I was even 4 years old

what if u dont have earth wire, is it ok?

@grassytramtracks

Жыл бұрын

Double insulated appliances (just a pretentious way of saying an appliance without a metal case) don't need an earth to be used safely

Which wire is positive and which is neutral ?

@sawu3668

Жыл бұрын

​@austindycha1345What will happen when they connected in reversal ?

@Nomoreidsleft hahaha xd

What if the left and the right on the fixture are side by side with no indication. There is no grounding wire.

And what about the other end ? I did this to the plug, but now I AM plugin my wires to an extractor that has two entrances only and i think i should blend the wires (?) but which ones?

@kscdisappointment2404

4 жыл бұрын

I don't wanna sound like an expert cuz I'm not but I believe u just use the blue and brown and not the earth if wiring into a 2 hole

So is the blue the positive side and the brown the ground

I’m very sad my lamp still doesn’t work

What if there's no earth on the lamp?

EZPZ

So which one is live, the brown or blue?

@designertjp-utube

5 жыл бұрын

Excellent Question! I wish to know also. I'm sitting here in Los angeles with this apparent U.K. Power Cord about to attach to a desk lamp to make an extension. Which color is Live (Hot, Negative, will fry your arse)? Brown or Blue?

@buffyvachon8026

5 жыл бұрын

Apparently the brown wire is the hot one as I researched more and it did work for my ceiling light.

@designertjp-utube

5 жыл бұрын

@@buffyvachon8026 Thank you! After leaving Google Searchland, I'm coming up with "Brown" also!

@dancoulson6579

4 жыл бұрын

Modern UK wiring utilizes brown for live, blue for neutral, and green/yellow for earth/ground. However, if it's an older appliiance, it may use red for live, black for neutral, and green for earth/ground. The live should be the shortest and tightest, and the earth should be the longest, with a little extra. This is so that if the wire is snagged, and forcefully broken from the plug, the live is the first to disconnect, and the earth is the last to disconnect. This is also the reason the earth pin on the plug is the longest.

@grassytramtracks

Жыл бұрын

Live is brown, neutral is blue

What?! Flat panel TVs in the UK come without plugs? Or is it that they keep coming off after your favourite team looses its football match?

How about red and black?

@grassytramtracks

Жыл бұрын

In the past they used to use red for live and black for neutral

@shivam.yadav.a

Жыл бұрын

@@grassytramtracks them in this which is neutral and which is live blue and brown

You should never wire with just a color code. I c people reversing wires in the breaker box all the time wich would mean u would need to reverse the color code. Keeping a meter around is defnitly important. The less u kno about electrical the more u need a meter. use it to make sure the power is off and then use it to make sure wich wire is the hot wire.

@JivanPal

Жыл бұрын

You should always follow the wiring standards by colour. If the breaker is in the wrong, don't make your plugs wrong, too; fix the breaker. In practice, it doesn't matter anyway, because this is all AC.

@retroguardian4802

Жыл бұрын

​@@JivanPal I work in a lot of commercial locations where finding the breaker box would take a lot of time. Good luck using a tracer with all the interference. Even if you trip the breaker by imposing a lovely direct short with your pliers where in this huge hotel or nursing home may you have to look? What floor is it on? Behind what painting? Lots of wiring here is still knob and tube so its grand fathered which should just be done away with. Lots of fabric insulated wiring with only black colored wires. Also it does matter because its ac. Can't think that all these wires just equal up to going through a coil. If what is hot and you reverse it back to the way code tells you to now that hot white (american standard) is tied to all the other actual neutral whites and short that pupy. Once you done that your hearing nothing but alarms because all the medical equipment is off and nurses scrambling. Sure theres a back up generator in the back? Those hardly ever work and are only there to point to the state inspector and say yes we have one. That's why medical electricians tools are always burnt and blown out. We wire everything live. It sounds horible but your not doing anything more dangerous than using a welder. We are passed the step down transformer of coarse. In reality these cut throat chains don't care for the facility. Just money. I work for a lot of medical chains. Nursing homes have the most cobbled and illegal systems on earth lol. Most are labeled none profit to escape most modern codes. Grandfathers play a huge roll and added grand fathers are given to none profits depending on type. Code doesn't pretain to entire field. That's why its best to have a specialist in the field at hand. It's cheaper to pay the fines then fix the problem. I get hired often to show state inspectors around because I know where to find everything they need to see. They all know me and that even though I get paid by the companies I prefer the state and tell them everything that is wrong that I'm getting paid not to show hehe. Some fines can be 5k a day untill it's fixed. Most times I show them about 15 right ups. Most 2 or 300 a day fines till fixed. Feels good.. feels real good. Them old folkes deserve the best.

@JivanPal

Жыл бұрын

@@retroguardian4802 Haha, thankfully I'm not an electrician by trade, so I don't have to deal with such things, though I have seen the unusual placing of breaker boxes worldwide in ElectroBOOM's videos. Consumer units in houses in the UK are easy to find; they're in a predictable place and/or the homeowner almost always knows where they are. Of course the directionality of wiring matters for those wires that are running through the walls, etc. All that I was saying was that it doesn't matter when it comes to the end-user appliance (well, in most cases anyway, particularly when it's being rectified to low-voltage DC). Granted, I think I did neglect the safety element of the ground and neutral no longer being at the same voltage if you do that, though I don't think this matters most of the time? I'd be grateful to know for sure from you.

@retroguardian4802

Жыл бұрын

@@JivanPal A fellow nerd I see.. FULL BRIDGE RECTIFIRE!!! ac sadly has little choice in its future. It is destined to be turned into an electromagnetic field for what ever the application or like you said converted to dc as if it wasn't good enough. Not quite sure if im understanding your question. Grounds here get neglected a lot and hardly anything is grounded. We always have the neutral for 120v but our 240v doesn't have neutral. It uses 2 120v hot lines. I live in one of the poorest states so hardly anything is to code hence the lack of grounds and most even electricians believe grounds are unsafe because getting shocked aint to bad. We get shocked almost every day just because we rednecks are comfortable and working on auto pilot while we work. Thanking about the circuits we are building at home (currently an amp with a mix of transistors and mosfets) Its going to be a make believe air craft control radio for my son and me when we pretend to be commercial pilots in gta 5. We always shoot the plane up or simply stall out the engine to practise crash landngs. The gadget will have lights tied to the speaker for xtra coolness. So... Off topic... back to grounds.. When we do get shocked its hardly ever while grounded. We don be mindful of that. When we do get shocked while grounded though its not fun. On a 3 phase my buddy managed to get shocked while grounded on at least 2 phases at the same time. His arm up to his elbow was as dark as mordor. So many electricians don't use grounds. I always do. I saw a more lady once who got shocked every time she used the 240v oven because it wasnt grounded. There was so much resistance of having to go through the whole oven that it wasn't going to kill anybody luckily. Had a bad insulator and was making contact some where. Read your question again. Maybe you meant changing voltage of the neutral. a hot tied to the neutral would just blow the break or fuze. Lots of fuzes still around.. So the neautral line voltage would only change for a moment. would be kneat to see the sine wave on that special doozy of an event. In a secondary box our grounds are seperated from the neutrals but in our primary boxes the grounds and neutral are tied together but in reality they are usually tied together everywhere and hardly ever see any ground rods. almost everyone uses just the neutral from the power company.

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Yes, but who is who. Blue is negative and brown is positive?

Why has this been put up again? Plus any appliance sold in the UK has to come with a fitted sealed plug so this is just a waste of time.

@yousefnoori

6 жыл бұрын

Alexander Presslie Because GCSE Physics has this.

@experiment54

4 жыл бұрын

Alexander Presslie cause some people become electricians and teach their family’s and friends how to change plugs if they need to.

Those big goofy ah uk plugs again.

This is far from all the information needed. what I'd you use a 13A fuse to protect a cable not able to Carry 13A... what happens to the cable?? stupid dangerous BBC PISH

@davidkinkade3884

6 жыл бұрын

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@yousefnoori

6 жыл бұрын

Well, this is GCSE Physics, not an engineering course, I'm afraid.

@dancoulson6579

4 жыл бұрын

It's BBC, what do you expect. Over simplified, patronizing, nonsense. Any other news channel might report like: "A freight train has derailed near the south of crystal peaks lake, contaminating the water with over 200 tons of sodium hydroxide. Officials are warning to avoid contact with water from the lake for the next two weeks." The BBC: "A big train had an accident, and lots of dangerous chemicals have mixed in with the water in crystal peaks lake. You can't swim there for two weeks now."

@okaro6595

4 жыл бұрын

Fuses protect wiring. In Europe it is common to use 16 A breakers when the cable is for 2.5 A. It the equipment shorts why do you worry of the cable? The equipment is toast anyway.

Awful video. Doesn't teach the most important part

#UwU

i'm sorry but that was really quite useless O-o

I hate the new PC anti white BBC but I actually laughed at this video.