I worked as a short order cook . If the electric griddle, the toaster and the microwave were all going, the breaker would pop. The boss said he switched out the 20 amp for a 30 amp. It kept popping, so he put in a 50 amp. This guy had 2 places burn down in 3 years!
Lol, like upping the breaker amps magically upgrades the wire gauge to support more amps. Dude is gonna end up with melted wires and fires in the walls. We'll, I guess he did since he had places burn down... 😬
Gotta love dem live circuit finders! I bet money, they changed out their own breaker and was like “shit, call an electrician and tell him another electrician did it”
@@Simonelectricfl I build gas stations here for about 5 different Indian owners. They add so much during the job not to mention after the job. This weekend I’m adding a 100amp sub panel at one of the gas stations on the side, he already put the panel up and mounted all the boxes, just needs me to run the wire and do all the fishing to the panel in electrical room. Indians from India, I think we did 15 gas stations last year
@@Simonelectricfl goodness no, a 20’ diameter around each dispenser and tank is considered a classified area. If you have to trench or pipe through that area it must be rigid and have a seal on the ends. Middle can be pvc. There is nothing hard about it, just have to play ball with gilbarco, the company that owns the dispensers
I hate hack job electricians, just because the screw looks like it fits doesn’t mean it will if you don’t have the proper screw then find the proper screw or at the very least replace the bus bar with one that has the proper screws, who ever installed this panel created a major fire hazard which then could have costed the owner a lot of money in repairs or costed people their lives for such foolishness, sir I am glad you’re fixing this issue, you definitely get a thumbs up from me! 👍
That was definitely lack of common sense. Even me as a hobbyist / amateur electrician, I'm sane to know to always treat electricity carefully or we'll have a fire.
@@Lively_1185ironically electrical hobbyists with a decent amount of experience end up often being less mistake prone and stupid compared to a lot of "professionals" because one still doubts their work and makes sure to check stuff, the other thinks they know it all and make tons of mistakes either out of lack of care or overconfidence
@@MaxC_1 residential plumber here, hard agree. Some of the best work ive seen was guys (who were usually handy to begin with) who did their research, went slow, overthought everything, and did their own renos and very occasionally ran a whole new build soup to nuts. I did the plumbing for a guy who bought and restored an old 3 story whaling captains house on long island with this gorgeous trim and a turret coming off the corner of the house, he ripped all the floors out and got the whole house pin straight with lam beams, did his own wiring, redid all the intricate woodwork on the exterior, reglazed the windows, damn near everything. old swedish fella, i assumed he was a retired contractor. Not even close; He was a photographer, bit of a famous one at that. Dude was just highly skilled and motivated and wasnt afraid to google it when he didnt know something.
@@mfbfreak True, but even so, the heat will affect plastic parts either way. If they dont melt, they will dry out to a point they become brittle like chunks of dried dirt.
This is getting to be a common problem in new panels. I’m finding on average 3 to 4 loose or cross threaded screws on every 42 circuit panel from the factory.
This 100% man. I have a strict no power tools policy for my guys when it comes to panels. Even panel cover screws at this point. I was finding they could not tell when a screw was cross threaded going into the soft busbar and would ram it home, leaving a loose connection.
They were never taught how to put in a screw. Hold it in place, spin it “ counter” clockwise until you feel a click then thread it in like normal. Works perfectly every time. This is a necessary step if you are reinstalling screws in any plastic fixtures as well.
@@user-bc3zs2wn5zYes! It also strips out the screw heads. Just had a small crew (one Jr one female student doing the pulling and termination). I saw a few stripped heads. Brrrt. Brrrrt. Brrrrt. Everyone using a power drill to drive screws except me. Idk how many times I have to drill out totally stripped screws that no driver can grip, or just spins free.
A friend of mine had the same job in Manhattan lounge bar. He immediately yelled at the owner to get everyone out of the lounge. His friend that was with him just hanging out happened to be a FDNY firefighter. The moment people left the lounge, the panel arc'ed and you could hear the humming from the arc. Every light went out and all you could see was blue light flickering from the panel. Con Edison was called for emergency shut down. When my friend told Con Edison that he was called on the job because the owner reported smoke from the electric room, Con Edison guys went into the room and the entire room was black. Everything was black. Con Edison ripped out the electric panel, and when they took the panel outside, my friend said the panel was melted and twisted into a mess. Con Edison changed and rewired the entire room and also changed the meter. Con Edison reported that whomever installed the panel installed it incorrectly and whomever wired it after to accommodate audio equipment such as 12 Crown power amplifiers for sound system, messed the entire panel up. Later it was found out that the so called electricians prior to my friend was unlicensed.
@@tieember9596 well, it's the electric company afterall, and it's also shorter than typing out "the electric company" every time. I saw no problem with it, it's just a story
I deal with these breakers a lot and it is very easy to cross thread the screws. There are guys out there that don’t take the time to make sure the screws went in correctly.
That's why you always go counterclockwise to make sure it's set in, then clockwise. I hate bolt on breakers though. They sketch me out. I always worry about the screw falling and shorting something. Idk how people swap these live. I'm so glad my business is commercial refrigeration. I do a ton of electrical and am very good with it but I would literally shut the whole thing down to swap that breaker.
I blame lazy people using power tools in the wrong locations . They just Ream the screws in and say close enough for government work. Typical tradesmen now.
If I saw that glowing in a breaker box, I would of shut down the entire system with the main switch immediately... and also at the power pole. Good god that's a fire starting within seceonds or minutes.
@@fzigunov a dull red glow begins somewhere around 800-900ºF, which you can spot in a darkened area, maybe in medium light. 1000ºC (about 1800ºF) looks more bright, cherry red, and is easily visible in full sunlight. Ambient light and individual eyesight will affect how our eyes perceive these temperature changes, of course, so this is general guidance for blacksmiths and others who work around high temperature materials.
@@chasejordan22 Well, lets see, it's the bus screw to the left of the breaker with the the top red plastic mark on it. Now switch it everything off before the place effn' burns down. This guy does not know what he is doing; you see an electrical fire you immediately switch off all electricity. And then you put out the fire, or in this case, let it cool down before you work to fix the problem, double check it several times, switch all breakers off, before reapplying power, then switch each breaker back on, one at a time. Even a farm girl knows that, that does all her plumbing and electrical wiring. We're living in an idiocracy where nobody has any common F'n sense any more...
Not a bad idea, but jewelry's biggest concerns involve much higher voltages and much higher frequencies (and much higher currents, but that usually is because of the higher voltages). Unless you're at risk of physical contact there usually won't be anything to worry about from ordinary wall current.
@@absalomdraconisHigh voltage and high current have nothing to do with each other. A car battery is low voltage high current. A sparkplug is high voltage low current
@@shaunclarke94 Exactly, the electrician assessed the situation and determined the safety of the property could be at stake so he did his due diligence to ensure the risk was minimized. One business owner treating another with proper care and respect.
I once went to a service call at a restaurant because they said the lights weren't working, I looked in the panel and turned on the only single pole breaker that was off, problem solved 🤦🏼🤷🏻
And didn't even bother to try to figure out why a breaker for a lighting circuit would have tripped in the first place, and whether it was a sign of a larger problem? You'd probably be happy to charge them even more when they have to call you out a few days later, too. And again, and again. Wait, no call today? Oh, the paper says the place burned down last night. Oh well...
I’m an electrical apprentice / a fire alarm technician apprentice and I watch all yours videos learning someone new or different. Please post more I will watch.
A large contractor allowed his guys to use impact drivers to install the breakers and 5 years later we replaced all 6 42ct buss bars and breakers ,old panels screw over torqued screws popped a lot of arching breakers abd one panel fire not fun
This reminds me of a story my dad told me. He works HVAC and was called to a restaurant several times cause their systems were down each time it was the same cause. Someone shoved a knife into the electrical panel. The culprit was an employee who didn't want to work their shift.
Yes and no I do have a strong word of mouth following but this area is so new and growing so we need to advertise for those new to the area customers also
Nice to see thermal camera in use, I use one on service visits, as you will already know you can spot bad connections even if it isn't glowing or smoking and prevent future problems.
Can't tell you how many "new" installs I'm finding these past couple years where wires aren't tightened correctly and things are just wired completely wrong... By licensed electricians.. It's getting bad.
No problem...I was in the hospitality business before and they required fire extinguishers... Just sit one beside the box and come back in the morning!
I have no idea who you are or how any of this works, except I understand basic electronics because I like rebuilding old 90's/00's computers. Good work lol
“After the snap of a few sparks, a quick whiff of ozone, the lamp blazed forth in unparalleled glory.” "Don't anybody move! Hold it right there! The fuse is out. My old man could fix a fuse faster than a jack rabbit on a date"
One of my favorite fixes was where I had a faulty busbar connector from a Siemens main breaker to the bus bars. The breaker was shot so we had to replace it, but the bus bar connector was also burnt, so we were looking at a full panel change. Until I made the observation that these connectors were U-shaped, because the panels are designed to be uprated to 400A in order to save manufacturing costs, even though it was a 125A service (the 400A main Breakers used twin bus bar clasps per phase to reduce the load on an individual one). Simply swapping them between the two bus bars meant a fresh connection to the replacement breaker. Problem solved in 6 hours on a Friday evening emergency call.
So Tuesday, went out to almost the SAME call you had here. Residential, no idea what happened but the 50A furnace heated up the bus bar till the 30A range top breaker melted, The panel is old, like 40 years old, so betting just old AF age.
My friend worked at a pulp Mill and they had an accident where a guy dropped an aluminum Maglite Flashlight behind something there inspecting and it dropped right onto a 2000 amp bus bar and shorted. The result was a short that instantly vaporized the bulk of the flashlight giving him and several others burns. He did survive but he had to take retirement due to his injuries
Some toners can and some can not, and out of those that can not be used on hot circuits, some will damage the tone generator. But some do not get hurt they just don't work.
If you watch closely, He pulled the wires off the breaker and clipped the toner on the conductors. Most low-voltage toners like that you cannot connect to live circuits. That type of toner typically only generates a 9 VDC signal. There are other types of circuit tracers that you can clip on live wires, but they work in a different way.
The moment that problem happens, I'm searching for the last electrician and making him pay every penny it takes to get that repaired, by this obviously a lot better Electrician.
*I am not an electrician* If there is a fire hazard, is that not an immediate shut down? The building litteraly is not safe. If it is shut down, why cant the work be done then? No need to chase a line. Just cut power and fix the obvious problem?
Some restaurant owners opt for two gas water heaters; one for domestic hot water and one for sanitizing water. That takes work off the electrical booster elements.
No, definetly not. I agree if you're somewhere more important, but this is just irresponsible. No matter what that's driving it shouldn't be on for even a second more.
I got a call to the relatively new hall for our church about a year ago because they were having some issues so I opened the panel and it was full of snap-in breakers, but it was a commercial bolt-on panel…. The cover was literally holding the breakers in contact 😫😫
Had someone do this on the ac circuit few weeks ago. Fried the compressor coming on and off repeatedly. Odd I didn’t do that start up but can’t blame anyone when we are also the electricians. Shit happens and I paid for the compressor. My guys should have checked the electrical connections instead of just connecting wires. Lesson learned
Previous breaker installer was a friends brother-in-law who knew a guy that was married to a girl who had a coworker who's dad could do it cheaper..... if they gave him a case of beer.
the fuse box not crawling with roaches (they're attracted to electrical fields for some reason I don't understand, when i worked in dishwasher service, almost every fuse box crawled) is a very good sign that place is safe to eat...
I had a bolt break in my house on a 20A breaker (installed 1974). I saw a red dot out of the corner of my eye one day while passing the panel. I ended up putting in a pony panel as I didn’t was to start tapping new threads in old holes.
He's also a content creator, showing us a physical measurement of the temperature. If he didn't show it, you would comment "HoW cOmE yOu NoT sHoW hOt?? 🥵 Durttt"
I like the optional under the panel hood light!
I bet they paid extra for that feature.
Haha it is a custom mod
Anyone else’s eyes get REALLY wide when they saw that?
@@mechcommander7876I thought it was an actual light for half a second.
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Also a low key heater and fog machine for the nightclub. Free of charge lol
If I see a smoking panel, I'm shutting the whole thing down 🤣
Yeah right? I mean the firefighters will do the same if it catches fire a few hours later
Yeah if your breaker panel is smoking call the fire department lol
@@alexandersalarms5380 Electrical fires not easy to work with. Electrician did a perfect job.
@@guypersson Yes
Hell yeah, especially when it's a visible arc or whatever that light was, I'm shutting off the whole damn panel!
I like your circuit tester. It let's you know that if you touch it you get an ambulance.
Haha yes
Just got one from my Company, a week ago.
The circuit tester sounds more like an ice cream truck ...
Or a mortician.
@@cliffnelson1174 Naw, they got to declare you fully cooked, so they can do the paperwork.
Illumination inside a breaker box terrifies me more than any horror film I have ever seen.
What about water dripping down the bus bars and circuit breakers? That's what I had because the neutral wasn't sealed off at the service entrance.
Because horror movies are fake
@@whattheschmidtthat is for sure scarier IMO
@@benjaminabel8596 Yeah
And so predictable
@@narrativeless404 but at least there's more sex than a breaker box.
I worked as a short order cook . If the electric griddle, the toaster and the microwave were all going, the breaker would pop. The boss said he switched out the 20 amp for a 30 amp. It kept popping, so he put in a 50 amp. This guy had 2 places burn down in 3 years!
Jesus
Lol, like upping the breaker amps magically upgrades the wire gauge to support more amps. Dude is gonna end up with melted wires and fires in the walls. We'll, I guess he did since he had places burn down... 😬
Should have just removed the breaker and wired it directly into the mains so that the breaker couldn't fail and catch on fire. Duh.
@@adamgerald849 That is not how things are done
@@davemanone3661 Breaker panels and transformers are not needed. The mo powa, the mo better!
This is a wartime skill. The power has to stay available to the hospital imaging equipment.
I try to know as much as possible for this potential eventually. Hopefully I never need to use those skills in that capacity though.
It’s also a pretty useful skill for the real world
Imaging equipment installer here. I thank the electricians that know their stuff and make the job flow smoothly. Salute
@@Simonelectricflhospitals have backup generators
@obeseperson Far more useful for the real world for thousands of obvious reasons
Gotta love dem live circuit finders!
I bet money, they changed out their own breaker and was like “shit, call an electrician and tell him another electrician did it”
Haha maybe but this place is only a few months old. But you could be right
@@Simonelectricfl I build gas stations here for about 5 different Indian owners.
They add so much during the job not to mention after the job. This weekend I’m adding a 100amp sub panel at one of the gas stations on the side, he already put the panel up and mounted all the boxes, just needs me to run the wire and do all the fishing to the panel in electrical room.
Indians from India, I think we did 15 gas stations last year
@Hohmies86 wow that seems like a good gig you have going. Are any of the areas you work zone 1 hazards?
@@Simonelectricfl goodness no, a 20’ diameter around each dispenser and tank is considered a classified area. If you have to trench or pipe through that area it must be rigid and have a seal on the ends. Middle can be pvc.
There is nothing hard about it, just have to play ball with gilbarco, the company that owns the dispensers
What circuit finder tool is that? Looks like it can handle live circuits?
I hate hack job electricians, just because the screw looks like it fits doesn’t mean it will if you don’t have the proper screw then find the proper screw or at the very least replace the bus bar with one that has the proper screws, who ever installed this panel created a major fire hazard which then could have costed the owner a lot of money in repairs or costed people their lives for such foolishness, sir I am glad you’re fixing this issue, you definitely get a thumbs up from me! 👍
I could not agree more
That was definitely lack of common sense. Even me as a hobbyist / amateur electrician, I'm sane to know to always treat electricity carefully or we'll have a fire.
@@Lively_1185ironically electrical hobbyists with a decent amount of experience end up often being less mistake prone and stupid compared to a lot of "professionals" because one still doubts their work and makes sure to check stuff, the other thinks they know it all and make tons of mistakes either out of lack of care or overconfidence
@@MaxC_1 residential plumber here, hard agree. Some of the best work ive seen was guys (who were usually handy to begin with) who did their research, went slow, overthought everything, and did their own renos and very occasionally ran a whole new build soup to nuts. I did the plumbing for a guy who bought and restored an old 3 story whaling captains house on long island with this gorgeous trim and a turret coming off the corner of the house, he ripped all the floors out and got the whole house pin straight with lam beams, did his own wiring, redid all the intricate woodwork on the exterior, reglazed the windows, damn near everything. old swedish fella, i assumed he was a retired contractor. Not even close; He was a photographer, bit of a famous one at that. Dude was just highly skilled and motivated and wasnt afraid to google it when he didnt know something.
Nice! He must have had PLENTY of time for this though
That is definitely a warning led light when I see one
Haha
Everything can be an led with enough electricity
@@michaelhelmut1 everything can be an incandescent light* unless it burns up
It's amazing that it hasn't already started buring in that fusebox due to the screw being glowing so hot for that long.
The magic of modern fire retardent plastics.
@@mfbfreak True, but even so, the heat will affect plastic parts either way.
If they dont melt, they will dry out to a point they become brittle like chunks of dried dirt.
@@draxoronxztgs1212 as if it stopped smoking because it had run out of insulation to turn into char.
Ten thousand, million points for actually making sure that isolating it for the evening wouldn't lose them a day's trade.
Plus another billion for this. Times are tough and margins are already tight. This guy is _the_ guy to call.
This is getting to be a common problem in new panels. I’m finding on average 3 to 4 loose or cross threaded screws on every 42 circuit panel from the factory.
Because people are using impact drivers to fasten down everything
This 100% man. I have a strict no power tools policy for my guys when it comes to panels. Even panel cover screws at this point. I was finding they could not tell when a screw was cross threaded going into the soft busbar and would ram it home, leaving a loose connection.
They were never taught how to put in a screw. Hold it in place, spin it “ counter” clockwise until you feel a click then thread it in like normal. Works perfectly every time. This is a necessary step if you are reinstalling screws in any plastic fixtures as well.
@@user-bc3zs2wn5zYes!
It also strips out the screw heads.
Just had a small crew (one Jr one female student doing the pulling and termination).
I saw a few stripped heads.
Brrrt. Brrrrt. Brrrrt. Everyone using a power drill to drive screws except me.
Idk how many times I have to drill out totally stripped screws that no driver can grip, or just spins free.
A friend of mine had the same job in Manhattan lounge bar. He immediately yelled at the owner to get everyone out of the lounge.
His friend that was with him just hanging out happened to be a FDNY firefighter.
The moment people left the lounge, the panel arc'ed and you could hear the humming from the arc. Every light went out and all you could see was blue light flickering from the panel.
Con Edison was called for emergency shut down.
When my friend told Con Edison that he was called on the job because the owner reported smoke from the electric room,
Con Edison guys went into the room and the entire room was black. Everything was black. Con Edison ripped out the electric panel, and when they took the panel outside, my friend said the panel was melted and twisted into a mess. Con Edison changed and rewired the entire room and also changed the meter.
Con Edison reported that whomever installed the panel installed it incorrectly and whomever wired it after to accommodate audio equipment such as 12 Crown power amplifiers for sound system, messed the entire panel up.
Later it was found out that the so called electricians prior to my friend was unlicensed.
Why do you say con edison so much...are you a bot...
@@tieember9596 🤦♂️
@@tieember9596 well, it's the electric company afterall, and it's also shorter than typing out "the electric company" every time.
I saw no problem with it, it's just a story
@@volvo09Con-Ed
Good one i wouldn’t thought about the swamp pump 👍👍
Nice watch 👍👍
That was a suspiciously specific concern. I bet that was learned the hard way
@samthekashman haha almost all my lessons were learned the hard way.
Neither does the power company
And the sump pump too
What is the model of your toner tool? I need that in my life.
thats fantastic diagnosis and the type of professional service id like to learn from
I didn’t realize there was an issue till you brought out the Infrared camera lol
They can help find issues quickly and also show how large of an area is heated up
@@SimonelectricflWhat I think the guy meant is Ray Charles could have seen the issue.
breaker now identifies as space heater...
Haha exactly
I deal with these breakers a lot and it is very easy to cross thread the screws. There are guys out there that don’t take the time to make sure the screws went in correctly.
That's why you always go counterclockwise to make sure it's set in, then clockwise. I hate bolt on breakers though. They sketch me out. I always worry about the screw falling and shorting something. Idk how people swap these live. I'm so glad my business is commercial refrigeration. I do a ton of electrical and am very good with it but I would literally shut the whole thing down to swap that breaker.
I blame lazy people using power tools in the wrong locations . They just Ream the screws in and say close enough for government work. Typical tradesmen now.
@@allanhood4397
I hope that when I become a vocational electrician in the future, things will be strict and done right for safety.
Cross threading is just free loctite 😉
If I saw that glowing in a breaker box, I would of shut down the entire system with the main switch immediately... and also at the power pole. Good god that's a fire starting within seceonds or minutes.
I find it funny he needed a thermal camera to see the heat 😆😆
If it's glowing and you can see it, you can guarantee it's at least 1000C 😆
No need to shut down the whole building just to fix one circuit with the poor termination!👍
@@fzigunov a dull red glow begins somewhere around 800-900ºF, which you can spot in a darkened area, maybe in medium light.
1000ºC (about 1800ºF) looks more bright, cherry red, and is easily visible in full sunlight.
Ambient light and individual eyesight will affect how our eyes perceive these temperature changes, of course, so this is general guidance for blacksmiths and others who work around high temperature materials.
How do you troubleshoot the issue with the power off? Think before you critique someone who knows what they are doing....
@@chasejordan22 Well, lets see, it's the bus screw to the left of the breaker with the the top red plastic mark on it.
Now switch it everything off before the place effn' burns down.
This guy does not know what he is doing; you see an electrical fire you immediately switch off all electricity. And then you put out the fire, or in this case, let it cool down before you work to fix the problem, double check it several times, switch all breakers off, before reapplying power, then switch each breaker back on, one at a time. Even a farm girl knows that, that does all her plumbing and electrical wiring.
We're living in an idiocracy where nobody has any common F'n sense any more...
Great work
Electric Detective
Thank you! Cheers!
I would recommend leaving the gold band bracelet at home
Not a bad idea, but jewelry's biggest concerns involve much higher voltages and much higher frequencies (and much higher currents, but that usually is because of the higher voltages). Unless you're at risk of physical contact there usually won't be anything to worry about from ordinary wall current.
There's a proverb, work is gold bracelet.
It's a GFCI tester.
@@absalomdraconisHigh voltage and high current have nothing to do with each other. A car battery is low voltage high current. A sparkplug is high voltage low current
A spark plug is not a power source.
But yeah we get your point. 😊@@bene5431
holy crap, keeping running with a circuit breaker smoking must be illegal in some way. glad you resolved it
More dangerous than illegal.
If smoke is pouring out, isolate the circuit regardless of what it feeds. I'm not getting your hesitation here.
Getting sued for a fridge full of food
@@vladimus9749 and you think a fire starting in the electrical panel taking out the whole supply is a better alternative? 🤦♂
@@shaunclarke94 That's not his liability as he didn't make the mistake. Shutting off the wrong circuit would be.
@@vladimus9749 hard disagree. Electricians have a duty of care to make safe. If you leave a fault like that you're 100% liable for any damages.
@@shaunclarke94 Exactly, the electrician assessed the situation and determined the safety of the property could be at stake so he did his due diligence to ensure the risk was minimized. One business owner treating another with proper care and respect.
I once went to a service call at a restaurant because they said the lights weren't working, I looked in the panel and turned on the only single pole breaker that was off, problem solved 🤦🏼🤷🏻
Haha nice
Easiest couple hundred bucks someone can make
And didn't even bother to try to figure out why a breaker for a lighting circuit would have tripped in the first place, and whether it was a sign of a larger problem?
You'd probably be happy to charge them even more when they have to call you out a few days later, too. And again, and again. Wait, no call today? Oh, the paper says the place burned down last night. Oh well...
@@foogod4237 OR what really happened, they turn breakers off at night and forgot to turn one on in the morning, but thanks for ASSuming
@@herdHistruthusing breakers for switches is a problem waiting to happen..
There was definitely something fishy in that sushi bar breaker panel.
Oh I see ya problem guy put the wrong screw here and made a mini sun
Haha I was getting a tan for that
Respect to everyone that does their job properly.
I’m an electrical apprentice / a fire alarm technician apprentice and I watch all yours videos learning someone new or different. Please post more I will watch.
You don't need a thermal cam to see that 💀
Hey I paid for the damn thermal scanner
And I’m ganna use the damn thermal scanner
A large contractor allowed his guys to use impact drivers to install the breakers and 5 years later we replaced all 6 42ct buss bars and breakers ,old panels screw over torqued screws popped a lot of arching breakers abd one panel fire not fun
That's why they say 'Smoking is injurious to health' 😂
I love watching people who are good at their jobs
Thank you!
Fire waiting to happen and he sets up cameras to record, very good job 👍🏻
Amen! People like you are heroes
This reminds me of a story my dad told me. He works HVAC and was called to a restaurant several times cause their systems were down each time it was the same cause. Someone shoved a knife into the electrical panel. The culprit was an employee who didn't want to work their shift.
Yeah, definitely needed that heat vision there. Totally couldn't tell that that was hot.
I've never seen that light come on before
Thats an Ethernet toner 😅 i love it
I love how you clearly see the glowing screw but decide to hit it with the thermal anyway lmao.
Great work! Word of mouth must work great for you! Saves on advertising!
Yes and no I do have a strong word of mouth following but this area is so new and growing so we need to advertise for those new to the area customers also
What more could you expect from a GE PANEL???🔥🔥🔥😂
True but this one was definitely the installer
Dangerous situation. Thanks for sharing.
“Who did you say did your wiring”
“Oh that would be my nephew Tommy, he’s really handy”
Great job keeping it safe
Thanks pops
Thought it was a appartment building in the thumbnail
Nice to see thermal camera in use, I use one on service visits, as you will already know you can spot bad connections even if it isn't glowing or smoking and prevent future problems.
I agree 100% it is one of my favorite tooles to find overheating equipment
Can't tell you how many "new" installs I'm finding these past couple years where wires aren't tightened correctly and things are just wired completely wrong... By licensed electricians.. It's getting bad.
It's the LER!
Light Emitting Resistor 🤣
Technical I think you are correct
No problem...I was in the hospitality business before and they required fire extinguishers... Just sit one beside the box and come back in the morning!
noobs doing electrical happens and it's a bad bad thing😭
Just get ElectroBOOM on that sushi bar just to f**k around with the wires lmao 😂
Very nice of the previous electrician to install lights in the breaker box for convenient repairs.
I like the tone of your toner
Well I like the cut of your jib
what brand voltage tester is that?
@@Simonelectricfl
@Simonelectricfl all my decades in low voltage (telco) I hadn't considered sparky using my exact toner and wand in exactly the same way I do 😂
@@emg910728 that toner seems to penotrate conduit better then my kline or fluke that's why I use it more
@@johnf.hebert1409 Tempo 200xp
I love that you just checked with the thermal camera to make sure it was actually burning 😅❤
Wait?! You're worried about shutting off what? The fucking panel is melting and by my hot bar needs to stay open? LoLoL!
I have no idea who you are or how any of this works, except I understand basic electronics because I like rebuilding old 90's/00's computers. Good work lol
Thank you, I'm sure you have a pritty good knowledge if you can do that and are capable of learning this trade well
How do you repair the bus bar? I’m a beginning electrician and tbh I didn’t even know you could repair a bus bar 😅
Order the exact same bus bar from the manufacturer or replace the entire panel if that bus bar is not available.
@@Simonelectricfl
That really sounds like days of downtime and a big costly repair for a dangerous mistake.
I laughed when he said repair instead of replace, glad he used the wrong word.
I feel like you go ahead and turn off the fire hazard right away regardless of what it's connected to.
“After the snap of a few sparks, a quick whiff of ozone, the lamp blazed forth in unparalleled glory.”
"Don't anybody move! Hold it right there! The fuse is out. My old man could fix a fuse faster than a jack rabbit on a date"
A perfect example of the customers always right.
One of my favorite fixes was where I had a faulty busbar connector from a Siemens main breaker to the bus bars. The breaker was shot so we had to replace it, but the bus bar connector was also burnt, so we were looking at a full panel change. Until I made the observation that these connectors were U-shaped, because the panels are designed to be uprated to 400A in order to save manufacturing costs, even though it was a 125A service (the 400A main Breakers used twin bus bar clasps per phase to reduce the load on an individual one). Simply swapping them between the two bus bars meant a fresh connection to the replacement breaker. Problem solved in 6 hours on a Friday evening emergency call.
So Tuesday, went out to almost the SAME call you had here. Residential, no idea what happened but the 50A furnace heated up the bus bar till the 30A range top breaker melted, The panel is old, like 40 years old, so betting just old AF age.
I've never seen a fuse box that had a built-in heater before. 👍🏻
That "That ain't good" in the background sounds like Mike from breaking bad 😂
Because the breakers are bad of course...
Thanks for your hard work brother! Proud 🙋🏽💯 blue collar keeps the world running
My friend worked at a pulp Mill and they had an accident where a guy dropped an aluminum Maglite Flashlight behind something there inspecting and it dropped right onto a 2000 amp bus bar and shorted. The result was a short that instantly vaporized the bulk of the flashlight giving him and several others burns. He did survive but he had to take retirement due to his injuries
Its a breaker box and heater in one what a steal
Great job at work.
Whatever it feeds, it needs to be turned off.
yeah that glowing looks like its just seconds from becoming a much bigger problem.
@@snapperhead273
It's an accident and fire waiting to happen.
You can use a toner on a live circuit ? I was always afraid of blowing it up. I did trip a fire alarm once :)
Some toners can and some can not, and out of those that can not be used on hot circuits, some will damage the tone generator. But some do not get hurt they just don't work.
If you watch closely, He pulled the wires off the breaker and clipped the toner on the conductors. Most low-voltage toners like that you cannot connect to live circuits. That type of toner typically only generates a 9 VDC signal.
There are other types of circuit tracers that you can clip on live wires, but they work in a different way.
@@Simonelectricflwhat toner is that? Is it lines voltage safe?
*PhotonicInduction* _Enters Chat:_ Aww, He didn't pop iiiit.. I aint avin it!
I really hope my boy is settling down nicely with his missus.
@@jonanderson5137 Aye, and getting well fed too. Apparently the missus is a fantastic cook, lol
The moment that problem happens, I'm searching for the last electrician and making him pay every penny it takes to get that repaired, by this obviously a lot better Electrician.
That glowing light behind breaker wall of switches was eerie.
*I am not an electrician*
If there is a fire hazard, is that not an immediate shut down? The building litteraly is not safe.
If it is shut down, why cant the work be done then? No need to chase a line.
Just cut power and fix the obvious problem?
Lol
@@joeybasile1572Amazing reply! Super informative!
hmm. you are not an electrician.
It comes with the revolutionary new mergency light
electricians are some kinda magicians..
Some restaurant owners opt for two gas water heaters; one for domestic hot water and one for sanitizing water. That takes work off the electrical booster elements.
That is some good work son!
Love seeing you wesr that Rolex even when you're working. Keep it up
Sushi bar/nightclub sounds like the coolest place ever
Super professional.
Always verify if the circuit feeds something important as lifts, pumps, illumination where there is no natural lighting.
No, definetly not. I agree if you're somewhere more important, but this is just irresponsible. No matter what that's driving it shouldn't be on for even a second more.
I got a call to the relatively new hall for our church about a year ago because they were having some issues so I opened the panel and it was full of snap-in breakers, but it was a commercial bolt-on panel…. The cover was literally holding the breakers in contact 😫😫
Had someone do this on the ac circuit few weeks ago. Fried the compressor coming on and off repeatedly. Odd I didn’t do that start up but can’t blame anyone when we are also the electricians. Shit happens and I paid for the compressor. My guys should have checked the electrical connections instead of just connecting wires. Lesson learned
You know it's a fire sushi place when the electrical is sketchy.
Previous breaker installer was a friends brother-in-law who knew a guy that was married to a girl who had a coworker who's dad could do it cheaper..... if they gave him a case of beer.
"Whoever installed" is certified letrician in the state..
Amazing video shots!
Thank you!
I've seen a similar situation where the bolt on screw simply wasn't tightened down all the way much less torqued. Also in a restaurant.
the fuse box not crawling with roaches (they're attracted to electrical fields for some reason I don't understand, when i worked in dishwasher service, almost every fuse box crawled) is a very good sign that place is safe to eat...
SQUIIIIIK!
I had a bolt break in my house on a 20A breaker (installed 1974). I saw a red dot out of the corner of my eye one day while passing the panel. I ended up putting in a pony panel as I didn’t was to start tapping new threads in old holes.
Sounds like you caught it just in time
Thanks for sharing
You still needed to look at it through a thermal Camera ? 🙄
Yes to see how much the heat has spread. If other areas are too hot, I will safe that off aswell
He's also a content creator, showing us a physical measurement of the temperature. If he didn't show it, you would comment "HoW cOmE yOu NoT sHoW hOt?? 🥵 Durttt"
My guy is wearing some of the highest conductive material on his wrist.
Beautiful 😮
Every restaurant retail worker: of course it was the dish washer!
Very thorough.
Is there no safety standard in America?
There is no repairing the bus bar... there is only replacing the panel! That is a factory piece that should be replaced completely!
Just because you CAN "McGiver" it; Doesn't mean you SHOULD!
Holy crap it was lighting up.
"Please help! There's a fire coming out of our computer room!"
"Alright let me just set up some cameras for my TikTok 😎"
Yeah man that would piss me off to no end
A 50 A cable...that's pretty impressive.
Its melting and he's checking amperage 🤣