John Shook has over 50 years of electrical experience and is also a certified safety expert. He spent 22 years working at Disneyland, most of that time in charge of all maintenance. After retiring from Disneyland, he worked several years for the State of California as an amusement ride inspector, checking the safety of rides all over California.
In 2005 John left the State and went on his own as a private inspector for amusement rides in California, Nevada, Arizona, Hawaii and even in Indonesia. At the same time he ran his own electrical contracting company. In 2014 he gave up the amusement ride inspections due to a leg injury. In 2017 he retired and now wants to share his electrical knowledge.
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I wish I could pay you to do a video call to help me with mine.
how can i do irreversible crimp bare copper for a ground wire
How to wire a blower fan that has white , black,red wires to capacitor that has blue wire,and red wire
I’ve been an electrician for over 20 years and still learning new tricks. Thank you 👍
Perfect 👍
I have read online that it’s not a good idea to use a 20 amp gfci if that circuit calls for a 15 amp. Can you explain this in more detail? I installed a 15 amp because that’s what was previously installed. However, this was in my garage. Should I have installed a 20 amp instead? I’m just wondering if it would have been safe. Thank you for your videos.
On a 15 amp circuit, the 15 amp breaker will protect the circuit, the wire, and the receptacle from overload so why in God's name would put a 15 amp receptacle on it's end so it can just to burn up as well? I have seen over 100 go south in my 62 years as an Electrician. John
Mr jhon if you are a electrician just put some wires around whith high voltage and problem solve if you dont feel safe in your home go doctor and stop watching cnn good video thanks
That's the kind of get off my lawn energy this country needs more of. 🫡
Great info....plz do not kick any bucks🙏
Ive tried everything from tapping the wall, resetting GFCI's, to replacing the original box.I still have no power. Ive also watch multiple videos and can't seem to find one that explains how to find the dead box without opening all the boxes
Thank John for sharing your knowledge. Please share the brand of wiggy style meter thanks
Solution for me: after doing breakers resets and outlet resets. It turns out the homebuilder was shit and didnt screw in the internal screw tight enough.
Your awesome
Great job, 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
I’m trying to connect my water heater which it has a red and a black and the house has ground white and red my question is do i connect black with black and red with white??ty
Great point discussing oxidation. I have always wondered if torque specs should be followed when making up split bolt connections. Thanks.
Just a suggestion............ park the truck in the garage after you clean all the shit out !!!
Help, im trying to connect a bathroom ventilation fan with a utilitech Bath Fan control switch with timer model (# 5984546) it has 5 wires. I know where the black white and ground go, but the brown and red wire, I dont know where they go. Please Help. Thank you
Awesome content John, thanks for taking the time to provide this content.
Thisbis one of a kind nobodys gone this far bravo sir
G,F I only new this stuff earlier, John. This took a Load of my mind. Thank you!
Very helpful; thank you.
trying to get 6 or 7 #12's in a big blue nut is a good time.
Hi John..my outlet in the bathroom goes to my outside shed. It only has the one reset button, and it won't push in..HELP!! 🙏
Any thoughts on putting ferrules on the wires before twisting them into the wire nut?
John, Brilliant video! I have been chasing a bad receptical for a week and you solved my problems. Thanks very much and I am now a subscriber.
valuable video. thank you for sharing!!
On behalf of a major Walt Disney/Disneyland fan thank you for your contribution to keeping such a place open for all our families to enjoy together and be inspired by. The behind the scenes work of the "magic" of walking into Disneyland/Walt Disney World.
Thanks for the information and help! Just troubleshot a tripped kitchen gfci and had to open 4 duplex wall outlets to find rhe problem. In that 4th outlet I checked, upon taking cover off I noticed the exposed copper ground wire touching the neutral exposed side screw. Pushed that back in and away from neutral screw and that was the problem. You got me on that load trail with your gfci help videos. Thank you!!
Keep making more videos. There are 2 entire generations below you that need this information and expertise taught in your straightforward and clear fashion. You are doing a great service to people everywhere! Sure appreciate you sharing. You have helped me immensely and I will watch all of your videos. I am retired and husband no longer able to help me with house issues. I have to learn it all on my own- that is my retirement job now.
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Do you still use grease when using the tinned ones for use with al + cu?
Sure, cuts the electrolysis down.
Thank you from one electrician to another! 36 years working as an electrician and this is the first knot that I can get to tie down my ladders properly and tight.
The power wire has electricity. I tested touching the wire with the tester and beeps. But I press reset and nothing. Doesn't reset.
Check power to neutral with a power device.
Thanks John --- I hate GFCI's always a pain to work with but very necessary! Good video!!
John, You should tell people the correct way to wire the plug after you find the problem. If you have 2 romex wires in your box add a pigtail to each wire - Hot, Neutral & ground then run your pigtails to the plug so if the plug burns out, breaks or anything else it does not effect the plugs downstream.
I fow your advice after a day changing outlets find out was in my office one outlet was no good with intermittent connection. Thank you John
this saved my ass
This is so wholesome
Good information
Thank you for the video. When testing a ground rod in an existing home, is it necessary to first disconnect the ground cable running between the ground rod and the breaker box?
very good videos
Thank you for the great video, I just got my apprentice license so your knowledge I will definitely put to use.
Hope you are still around.....😊
Hope you are doing well, thank you for your advice videos they have helped us in trying to figure out our electrical mess 🤦♀️ thank you for passing on ur knowledge ❤
Thank You. I've been wanting to learn how to tight ropes and I just found it.
Fantastic Info
I live in a house built in 2008, recently 2 separate 'weather proof' gfci plugs on separate fuses and in weather proof closed housings. Both had broken reset buttons, where the reset was sprung out of the plug housing. I've replaced both, neither showed any water entry (no corrosion), both had 'dry' mounting boxes, and enclosures did not have water. Was it just age? Or is there something I missed?
Very well explained sir, cheers 🎉
you can go with a hot directly to an unconnected ground rod and find your resistance without all the extra resistors also they make a meter that is clamp on that uses radio frequency to measure ground resistance without using anything else or even having to disconnect anything
Problem is if your rod is low ohms, there will be too much current going. With 25ohm resistor cap it max for 5amps on 120v
@@rm6857 which is why more than one rod is used in a system as per code 😎 25 ohm min
you didnt understand, with low ohm rod(s) and without extra resistor you would make dead short, and fliped the breaker, thats why there is that resistor used.@@mattman8685
Can the top plug work poorly, weakly, though the bottom plug in the same receptacle seems to work?