Main electrical panel explained - Load center - service panel
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- čas přidán 12. 09. 2021
- How do main electrical panels work. Learn the main parts of electrical panel, load center, service panel in this video.
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@@joew1693 PLC video here czcams.com/video/uOtdWHMKhnw/video.html
@@EngineeringMindset hi, i got a quick question. In my sub panel, there's a grounding/lightning rod underneath it and it's disconnected from the sub panel. To hook it back up, where does it connect to? To the ground bus bar / body of the sub panel? Or does it connect to the neutral bus bar? I also live in the United States.
A video about sub-panel would be nice when you can please!
And why neutral and ground bar can't be together but the main panel can be??🤔
Thanks!!
@@EngineeringMindset - Would you please consider a practical description video, on how a whole home surge protector works, something akin to a Siemens FS140 device, I believe that is a type 2 device.
My belief, is it is connected to both bus bars, senses a voltage increase (surge), and opens a gate to ground (path of least resistance) to regulate the voltage incoming down, and protect the rest of the circuits, it is sacrificial of course.
As a master electrician, I highly approve this video. I'll show this to my employees. I think some needs pictures to understand.
You probably should sit them down for a day and make them take notes while watching this playlist.
As a 9 Month apprentice, where should I be at progress wise in my career? They say you should pretty much be able to wire a house by yourself without a lead by 6 months. I pretty much understand everything up to service related shit, just because I haven’t been thrown into and really been shown. Just wondering coming from a true professional yourself!🤙🏼
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I've been an electrician for almost 20 years now and this is a really good video for explaining the basics to students or just curious folks. I wish this sorta stuff was around when I was in trade school
Hello, I believe my ground and neutral bus is connected by the bar. Does it mean that both the ground and neutral wires can be applicable to either side of the bar without trouble? In addition, can you put a ground and a neutral into the same screw? If so does that also apply to having two ground wires into one screw and two neutral wires into another? THANKS!
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Wow each time I previously watched videos about main panel installation, I’d have more questions than answers, but your presentation answered everything, in the right order, fantastic. Highest quality video 👍🏽👍🏽
I work as an electrical wholesaler and love videos like this as I'm really just a salesman and this helps me understand what the heck my customers are talking about. thank you!
I'm an electrician and I didn't even know the difference between AFCI and GFCI before this. Great video :)
Glad it was helpful!
⚡ Electrician. You're an apprentice. You're learning to be an electrician. There's a difference.
@@beverlytate2669 Thank you for spelling it correctly.
Just wait. You will come to find AFCI's can be the bane of your existence. Some are so sensitive you can't plug or unplug a vacuum cleaner in a master bedroom with out the SOB tripping!
Keep in mind though… modern GFCI are COMBINATION AFCI/GFCI and handle both jobs. Pretty much impossible to buy a single use breaker anymore.
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I only wish this type of useful information, on so many different trades, was available when I was a kid. The doors that this video in itself opens, for curiosity, is amazing.
It’s not too complex, and definitely something that would have grabbed my attention as a child to lead me into one of these trades.
Great video, and thank you for the useful info!
Just bought an old house with original electrical. Feeling confident about redoing all of it after this video, thank you.
Learn the code in your city or county.
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Man this is really good quality work. It’s so easy to comprehend! Keep doing good work man you’re making the electrical industry a better place.
I work with a lot of electronic circuits over the years as a field engineer on medical devices, but I never delved into electrical for housing. This was extremely interesting and pretty simple when you get right down to it. Great video.
These videos have somehow achieved an unmatched level of informational digestibility.
I say somehow because I’ve seen the same topics explained in what I thought was a similar manner, yet have never been able to comprehend & understand the presented information as efficiently as I’ve been able to with these. For example, I don’t think I’ve ever seen such a quick & simple, yet understandable explanation of the 120/240v relationship regarding the transform’s center-tap & the connected common rail. Clear & simple gold.
This is by far the best video I've seen describing the main panel operation. Great jo
There's information on breakers, GFCI, AND AFCI breakers. It ever talks about how switches and lights are wired.
It's like three or four videos in one. Great job.
An oldie but goodie. Clear concise North American service panel.
Thank you Paul.
That was fascinating. It's really good to know how these electrical systems work in the home and what protections are in place.
Great vid! Straightforward and easy to understand… the mark of a knowledgeable teacher.
Thank you so much for what you do! I'm learning so much about the trades now thanks to your videos. I took these classes in school and never understood a thing. You're doing a great service to tradesmen and others alike.
GREAT, SIMPLE video!!! Greatly appreciated. I'm installing an EMP/lightning protection device and this was a huge help!!!
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Highly recommend video. Going through an IIT program, video covers everything. 10/10
no amount of handouts will effectively make me understand the electrical concepts better than videos like this. Thank you
Nice video. I remember GFCI once saved my life. That is a good that engineers took care of such an event!
I think every circuit in the home should have a GFCI breaker. Maybe there is some disadvantage I'm not seeing but why don't they? Is cost the only reason?
@@levelup1279 I think the price is the main reason. Also, in UK such breakers called RCD (Residual Current Device) and placed not 1 for a room, but one breaker for a full house. In such case full house if protected. I see no disadvantages when it comes to a human life safety)
@@levelup1279 A GFCI won't save you if you stick a fork in the outlet without being grounded. It only works if it sees a different current back from the load than what was sent. What is good (especially if children are present) are tamper resistant receptacles that have a little doors in the slots that only open when both hot and neutral plug pins are inserted at the same time. It's residential code around here.
This is one of the best 'learning' videos that I have ever seen. It cleared up some of the things I was confused about inside the breaker box.
Excellent info and much needed. Thanks for taking the time and sharing the knowledge with us on this much needed subject matter. It is very much needed and appreciated.
Quality vid Awesome narrating., reminded me of the days where you can only get these information in a classroom… the lights turns on and the teacher testing us if we’ve learned anything.
7:57 He's so happy to help! 😂
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It's so complicated and and I am from Europe so it's more different. Thank for your video, EngineeringMindset!
Very helpful video! Clearly outlines the basics!!!
Can you please make a video explains why grounds and neutrals need to be separated in the subpanel. This was super helpful.
Because lightning grounds to earth and neutral is just return of the circuit back to transformer at the pole.
My guess.
Check the new *SUB PANEL EXPLAINED* ➡️ video czcams.com/video/NUSNa-7Hecw/video.html
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This is such a good video on the basics.
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Great video! Very informative and well explained.
Visualization made my understanding super easy and it gave all questions' answer regarding main panel.
im currently an apprentice for a commercial electrical company and i have always struggled to understand whats actually going on in these panels. I took notes from this video and it really helped me
Hello, I believe my ground and neutral bus is connected by the bar. Does it mean that both the ground and neutral wires can be applicable to either side of the bar without trouble? In addition, can you put a ground and a neutral into the same screw? If so does that also apply to having two ground wires into one screw and two neutral wires into another? THANKS!
Thanks for a really good video. So informative!
My first home was a 100 year old farm house that had been “farmer” built and engineered. No code was followed. I decided to change the front porch light fixture. So I turned it on with the switch, saw the lamp go on, the shut it off, the light went dark. So now I can safely remove the old fixture, right? WRONG! I put a screwdriver to the wire and received a good shock! Why? I was not wired correctly. Basically when the switch was off, it was just grounding it out. The fixture stays hot all the time. Beware. That’s why you use the breaker when working on a circuit you know no history on. It worked like that for years and the old saying if it’s not broken, don’t fix it is what farmers live by
And that's why you also verify with a voltmeter before you proceed work
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Great video. One correction: I believe the the grounds from the circuits are supposed to connect to the ground bus bar, not the neutral bus bar. And the grounding rod is supposed to connect to the ground bus bar. This is especially important in a sub-panel, where the neutral and ground bus bars are not connected to each other.
In general, yes that’s true. It depends on the ground fault protection of the circuit. You wouldn’t want to have your neutral bonded to ground downstream of your ground fault protection, as it would cause the breaker with said protection to constantly trip with virtually any load. For residential circuits this shouldn’t be too big of an issue though, since you only really see dedicated ground fault protection on the GFCI outlets. In commercial and especially industrial settings though, ground fault protection is very important and it’s therefore important not to bond your neutral and ground downstream of the protection.
You are correct about the subpanel. The video is correct and by code. When the service disconnect (Main Breaker) is in the service equipment panel then by code you need to terminate the grounded conductor (Neutral) on the neutral bar, and connect it to the ground bar and panel. It is important to connect the grounds and neutrals together. If you watch the video closely, in an event of a ground fault the current is going to travel the ground wire to the panel to the neutral back to it's source.
If your main disconnect is at the meter then you would connect the ground and neutrals together and then separate it at the main panel. Electrician U does a get video on why you separate the grounds and neutrals in the subpanel.
Check the new *SUB PANEL EXPLAINED* ➡️ video czcams.com/video/NUSNa-7Hecw/video.html
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Please Give a video on industrial substation and calculation.
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Would like to see a video for panels on small generators (not connect to a grid) and on AC electrical systems on ships and how they might differ from the North American grid and the European grid panel designs or requirements. (if there any differences)
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Now I understand why my house is so complicated, my country use UK-like electricity but my consumer unit is using US components. And wire color code is all over the place.
Which country are you located?
Thailand, don't get me wrong, right now my country has standard (Like UK but connect Neutral to Earth). My house just old enough to be in this mess.
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5:09 my only comment would be reflecting your earlier statement for a future video, but separate your Grounds and Neutrals now to make the lives of yourself, or anyone else in the future, much easier.
When you put in a battery backup we usually create a new first means of disconnect, meaning that you have to unbond those bars and separate the grounds and neutrals.
Thank you!
Nice video. An explaination why the neutral and the earth are connected together would be helpful. Think we would say a TN-C-S system. Greetings from Germany.
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7:56 Is it really ok to connect PE conductors to N bar and not PE bar (even though it branches from N) in US?
Same 9:53
Here in my place, in TN-C-S system we call bar connected to PEN conductor PE and N branches from it.
Nice work
Thanks!
In Chicago area, water bonding is required. Learned that working in Elmhurst!