How to Test a Wall Outlet - Receptacle Troubleshooting
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- Опубликовано: 15 июл 2024
- In this video I show you how to test a wall outlet for voltage. If you have a receptacle that doesn't have any power, this will help you through the troubleshooting process of finding what's wrong.
You should have 120 volts AC at your wall outlet in your home. If you have something plugged into the receptacle and it's not working, You'll need to troubleshoot and repair the problem. This tutorial will show you how.
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I was just about to thank him for a well done video and learned in the comments of his passing. He was such a soft-spoken man who seemed to just instinctively possess patience and a knack for teaching. I'm sorry to hear of his passing.
It's such a wake up call.
Oh no, I found this video to help me with my repair. So sorry to learn this gentleman passed away.
OMG! This was my first time coming across a video of his tutorials and I was just about to subscribe when I saw your comment. So sorry to hear of his passing also. This video was very easy to follow.
O.M.G. !!!!!!!!!!! 😱
I just got done writing a big long letter asking for his advice on an electrical issue I am having !!!
I really enjoyed this video more than the other one's I have watched and I too was going to subscribe to his channel until I saw your comment!
My God I'm just floored to learn of this !!!!! 😱😢😔 Do you know what happened to him ??? I am so sorry for his family, my deepest sympathie's to them, may God give you peace during this most un'fortunate try'ing time, and help you find comfort, God rest his soul and make your presense fealt to these people and help them with whatever they need in Jesus's name I ask this!
I am so sorry for your loss and I will pray for his family 😔
His channel was and still is very helpful to me in troubleshooting and repairing an electrical related problem. Reading his obituary, I didn't know he passed away in 2016 at the age of 38. My deepest sympathy to the Newberry family... RIP Robert William (Bill) Newberry.
I'm so sorry to hear this! He's so young! I hope he rests in peace.
Life is short man jeez
Oh, nooo! Bless it. I guess my comment won't go very far then. Sad to hear. He seemed like a nice guy. RIP ❤
So sorry about Bill’s passing at such a young age. Just watched this video and read in comments his passing. Bill’s video was easy to understand.
RIP, Bill. Thank you for the video. I am watching and learning in 2021. Your gift keeps on giving.
Rest In Peace, Bill. 😢 My heartfelt condolences to your family and friends. I stumbled upon your good video, looking for help with my outlet that has no power. After watching the video, I have read the comments of your passing. Now my mood has entirely changed.
I miss you Bill. An untimely passing of a man far too young. Even still your videos are a huge help to others. What a legacy you've left. God bless.
Andy Fulenchek wait, hes not alive anymore? so sad!
I thought you were kidding so I googled him. Looks like he did die. So sad. This video was very good.
@@joeguilfoyle1922 Oh, what happened
No way! RIP Bill this video was very informative! Damn
I'm sorry for the loss of your friend. That is very, very painful. He sure did make a very good video here. It's 2019 and I have benefited from the time he took to make this. May Bill's memory always be a blessing to you, Andy Fulenchek.
I feel so bad to learn that he died after watching the video. But it was so well done that I’m thinking he is still helping so many people after his death. I am going to try now and see if I can figure out what’s going on with my patio covered power outlet that is not producing any power. Thanks Bill.
So sorry to learn this gentleman passed on. This is a fine video from a good-natured person.
Has an HVAC apprentice i found this video helpful! Very concise and informative 👌
Just read people's messages regarding Bill's passing and it is very sad to find this out that he is no longer with us! God bless you Bill and my sincere condolences to his loving family! My prayers will always be with him and his family!
Thanks to you for getting straight to the point with clear and concise instructions without any annoying background music.
EXACTLY about background music.
Very well done and a help. Thanks And knowing he has passed away, I'm thankful that in our day we have things like video to remember folks. And thankful for good people like him who used their talents to help others.
I don't know if this will resolve the problem, but at least I now will be able to tell if it's the outlet or the breaker!
My condolences to the family and friends....I hope it is a comfort to know that even now Bill is still helping people!
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What a shame I love this man Bill is the only person to really explain what neutral does my condolences to his family
may he rest in peace, ive never seen him nor met him but i can tell he was a good guy
One of my outlets in my house didn't work today I guess my PS5 must have short-circuited so I watched his video and I got it back up but I didn't know he died now I feel bad. Wtf 😔
Omg he passed away this is such an informative video and this is sad he is helping us still. 😢
October 24th will be 3 years since Bill's passing. Eternal Rest Grant Unto Bill, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon him. May his soul and all the souls of the faithful departed rest in peace!
Found this video and read this on 10/24/21 ♡ happy birthday Bill
I could see from his videos he love helping others. He has found his way
Home. Rip Bill. We miss you!
Oh man, you stopped the video right when you were getting ready to explain about the wiring being bad!
That's exactly what I was waiting to hear you talk about!
You really do a good job explaining this stuff to some of us novice's out here!
What's up man? My name is Mike and I live in St. Charles, Missouri, I live with my room mate in a doublewide mobile home that was manufactured back in 1993 when all they used were those stab in the back receptacle's, every one of them are the stab in type! About 2 month's ago we had a bit of a cool spell and my room mate plugged in her space heater and all the socket's in her room all the way to the living room stopped working, along with the ceiling fan, the porchlight outside of the main entrance and 5 more receptacle's in the living room! I figured the space heater probably couldn't handle the load, so I went to the breaker box to reset the circuit breaker, when I opened the door on the panel box all of the circuit breaker's were in the on position! I found the one that controls her bedroom and I manually turned it off then on again to try & reset it but nothing happened! I just decided to pull the breaker in question and ran up to my home depot to buy a new one, it is a double 15 amp and each switch can be turned off & on independant of each other. I installed the new one and, "wah lah", everything worked again and I was the hero !!!
3 night's later she went to bed and decided to read a book so she went to turn on a little led lamp beside her bed and all of the light's and receptacle's went out again, a little led lamp overloaded the brand new breaker I just replaced 3 day's earlier !!!
I watched all the diy video's on "You Tube" and I heard nothing good about these back stab receptacle's and I intend to replace all of them soon just to save myself more headache's in the future!
I seem to think that one of these receptacle's has probably got a short where the wire was stabbed in at and replacing the receptacle should solve the problem, the only thing is I don't know which one it is so I'm just gonna start replacing them all !
I watched your video and you seem very wise when it comes to this stuff and I would respect your advice with this issue!
Would it be too much trouble to get your opinion on this please, I would greatly appreciate it my friend!
What would you do in this situation ???
Thanks a million bro!
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Great advice--"turn them all off." I have never lived anywhere where the breakers are labelled correctly. Thank you for making this video!
I know am a bit too late. Just came across this video ,wasn't planning on watching electrical but decide to check it out, boy i tell you never thought you can bang on the wall for troubleshooting, you just school me. Thank you sir!
This is a perfect video for someone just learning how to understand power and troubleshooting. I appreciate the post. Will be watching next video for what seems to be my issue.
Thanks. I had outlet in the kitchen go out. Had one outlet hidden by the microwave. I found it, hit reset. All good now. Thanks a lot!!
Good video, Good sound, a good stable camera! You also took your time explaining several possible problems, and how to resolve those problems. All it good!!
I love your videos. Because of your videos I have to depend less and less on my electrician. Which means more money back in my pocket.
Also you help me get over the fear of electricity. Your videos are very instructional very informative very professional looking and easy to comprehend. Thank you again
Thank you for showing how to do this little job.
It's important every one follows all the steps you did.
Just subscribed and learned of him passing. Great videos, my condolences to the family.
Sad 😥
Extremely fascinating. Also yes don't touch the leads. I touched one of the prongs on my laptop charger while plugging it in and my arm tingled in a scary way. I've been careful ever since.
Informative with an emphasis on safety. Nicely done.
I extend my condolences to his family and friends.
We miss you Bill, but your knowledge lives on.
One step that I feel should be added at the beginning: Test whether the circuit that your “dead” outlet is on has a GFCI outlet that has popped and, if so, reset the GFCI and re-check if the “dead” outlet has power.
Lol
Good catch.
Thank you, very professional in every way.
Great videos man! I'm training to become an electrician. I can't call myself one until I've become employed.
Hey how’s it going are you an electrician yet I am starting my first day this Friday
Well I have a daunting task of learning what I can do n when to call; a professional! ?Best way is watching these videos.
Omg.. I just subscribed and saw the last persons comment that he passed!! I am so sorry to all of his loved ones!! My prayers are with you all!
I have to watch all his videos because I bought a house in South Carolina and I don't know a whole lot about electrical but I do know that the framing addition was done wrong. Whoever ran all the ducting for the HVAC under the house did it wrong. The plumbing I'm going to have to tear out and redo. And whoever put the metal roof made a mess and now I've got dry rot.
I don't have the money to hire an electrician I'm a disabled vet on a small income but I got to make sure this place is safe....
Great video. Will be ordering the exact tools you used and doing this myself. Half my outlets don’t work in my apt, time to fix them. Cheers
very str8 forward and right to the point. loved the video; thank you Bill.
great video! keep them coming. am looking forward to watch more of your videos since I am an electrician apprentice.
dang bill very very well explained diagnostic's thank you so much for sharing and your service to the united states!!!!!!
Thank you, this is the exact video I am looking for.
Excellent very basic lesson. Iwould hire you to check a few things in my house's electric if you lived near.
Thank you Bill for all you contributed during your time on this earth. I've watched your videos hundreds of times over the years as I've tackled these projects. Condolences to the family.
Super helpful. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge.
Your advice worked for me in getting my garage door outlet to work.
Really great video. Explained well and easy to understand. Thank you Sir.
I appreciate the abundance of cautionary statements. I was helping a contractor move an outlet as part of a room remodel. I said I'd go flip the breaker and he said, "Nah, Don't bother. I like working with live wiring. It reminds me that I'm married to a Redhead!" Stay safe, Y'all!
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Thanks for sharing your knowledge!
Bill. I love the new channel! Its gonna help me a lot! In can't wait to watch more of your videos! Thank you! Keep up the good work!
+james norton Awesome, thanks for the support! Any special requests?
Reading schematics would be very helpful!
I changed my receptacle but still have no power coming out of the wires. Also cpuld not find the video showing how to troubleshoot the issue.
Jazz did you replace with a gfci outlet or regular 110 outlet?
I’m so sorry Andy. Seems like a great guy and very informative and thoughtful person.
I didn't no bill had passed learnt s lot from you God bless you Bill God speed
pretty good vid. easy to follow and hits all the basics. unintended humor is good also.
Bill, this is vid #3 today and I must congratulate you on your consistency and your material being well presented. Great job.
FRED R bill died in 2016
How did he pass? He was young and healthy looking.
Wow my condolences to his family 🙏
Thanks for the video. Your explained the way it should be tested. I did not want to try it until I was sure. Thanks again. The best !
A great tutorial. One outlet on the wall outside of my house is powerless. So hopefully it is just a bad outlet. I am always scared of electricity, so I haven't opened it up and test with a voltage tester.
Eyetoobur if it’s outside of you’re house, the GFCI might be tripped. All that means is the button on the front of the outlet (like the ones in your kitchen or bathroom near the sink or shower) might need to be pushed to reset it. Hope this helps!
just subcribed and I must say I love the way you explain things
Great video just one troubleshooting tip to add, I hope it helps. When you do a voltage test with your meter you want to also check voltage between ground and neutral, if it's anything but 0 volts you have an issue as well
Can you explain what might have caused that, I have outlet issue, 130v bn natural and ground, hot and ground?
brilliant explanation. thank you for this informative video. you already saved someone’s life.
thanks for the info
You should continue to make videos. You are very good at explaining. Thank you very much.
Rest In Peace I just saw the other posts.
Awesome thank you 🙏🏽 you’re great
Thanks for that short and clear explanation, it was well explained. I am a beginner
Great video! Thank you for sharing.
Thanks for the video! Useful!
Thank You...Very well explained...
lemme tell you something !😂i go to school for electricity && i learned more from you in this 10 min video first video then i do w my instructor for 4 hours every thursday
Without a doubt one of the greatest video, i felt like i was in a school, sorry for the loss you can tell he really wanted to help poeple
This man he suppose to be a teacher ,some of them they are just explaining themselves how they know it but not for Teaching others but this man he explained to someone to understand it..👌
Awesome video 👍 thanks for this!
Thanks this helped me
a lot ☺ you have yourself a new subscriber
Really helpful guide I have no experience with electricity, but with this guide and physics bases from school I was able to fix the issue with a bad socket that was shutting down the terminal.
Thanks to this guy I fix my problem at home 👍 🙏
Great as usual. Never a disappointment.
Your video is excellent thank you. My question is if I am remodeling my bathroom and I am putting in a new niche but there is a wire right in the middle of it. How do I add more wire to go around the niche? Thank you
Thanks for ur teaching video! Very helpful
awesome, informative, well done video. THANK YOU you're doing God's work!
Excellent video, Bill, for those of us that aren't sparkies! This is much appreciated. :~)
Fantastic, just what I needed!
great video, thanks!
I just subscribed to your channel after this helpful video, saved me time and money, good looking out 👌
Great demonstration and explanation! Thank you so much. Keep em coming
Good job, a word of warning to amateurs though, whenever dealing with high volts it's always safer to use one hand when you are probing your outlets, so if something happens then electricity won't flow through your chest stopping your heart
Thanks I never would have thought of that. Your comment could have saved my life right there.
awesome this is exactly what i need a video electrical for dummies
thank you so much!
maybe my well water pump will finally work
A plug tester. Praise the Lord and thank you I'm a new subscriber I can buy a plug tester instead of an electrician oh, at least for now you gave me hope.
I need tbe next video 😅😂😭 I have taught myself so much today and fixed/repaired/replaced so many things in my home... But the kitchen light has been completely uninstalled, live wires have been tested, breakers have been flipped ans tested ans still no power coming through. I was really hoping to be able to skip getting an electrician as I'm broke and HAVE to learn these skillsets. Thank you so much. Hopefully I can find your other video here in a sec and its something as simple as a fuse issue at the breaker box that I missed or something i havent tried yet or didnt do correctly. ( Also, maybe my balllast ISN'T out afterall. Either way, im upgrading to a new LED fixture when this all said and done lol)
Has the second video in the series been released? I have an outlet with no power to the screws and a switch with no current (tested with a no touch sensor).
Thankful I will do as you prescribe and I will let you know if solved or not thank you very much
Good man, always stressing safety !
Bill , My two bedrooms are on the same breaker no problems up to now . I came home from a weekend away and didnt have power in those rooms . I narrowed it down to a light switch , replaced it . Now I only have 110 on all the plug ins and no lights . you ever heard of this ?
Great help👍
Thank you
Very helpful. Easy to follow. Thank you.
I enjoy videos like this that give an opportunity to learn from a professional. That being said, I believe the term "electrocute" isn't being used properly here. There is a risk of getting "shocked," but electrocution is a term that means to be killed by electricity. If there's a risk of dying, I'd say we shouldn't be trying to use a RUclips video for DIY advice.
aznazguy don't worry too much about dying
It's part of the jargon like HIGH- VOLTAGE!
when it's the amperage that kills, you much more so than the "voltage". A taser for example might be 50,000 volts but less than a milliamp.
Well done and easy to follow. Subscribed. Thanks. Very helpful
Monroe bill passed away
Thank You for All of The Information You Shared. You Are Awesome
One other thing to consider when there isn't any power that the outlet might be a switched outlet by the electrician having broke the side making it a split outlet and a switch near the door to control the lamp or other device plugged into that half of the outlet.
Diagnosis nicely explained. Keep up the good work
EVEN IN SPIRIT I THANK YOU FOR THIS VIDEO BILL BY THE QUALITY OF YOUR VIDEOS I CAN SEE WHY YOUR MISSED.
thanks billy, your a good person billy. i knew there was a good bill out there/
Billy is a good Billy, I tell you what. Billy does what all good Billys do and that’s writing the bill.
Thanks for sharing this video with us.
Excellent video thank you for sharing