I just spent 20+ minutes trying to plug something back in. I hate these damn things and I still didn’t get it back in. I think some brands are worse than others. I always have trouble with this one and try to never unplug anything from it. I even tried the tips I’ve found and still nothing. It’s a gfci with USB ports and I may try taking it apart to “fix” it
Your channel has been VERY helpful! I LOVE you!!! I've just finished painting my sewing room and installing (with your help) "eight" new Eaton "TR" receptacles with screwless cover plates. Oh....and I picked up an ECX screw driver because I have plans well beyond this one room! Anyway, my sewing room is white, bright, fresh and..."almost" perfect! I've been moving my stuff back in over the last two days! About an hour ago...I "attempted" to plug in an extension cord for my sewing machine but it was "impossible"! Totally perplexed...I went to a different receptacle thinking that I had a "bad" one! Same thing! So I gathered a few other cords...three...to rule out my extension cord plug as the culprit! I used my vacuum cleaner and a second (but different brand) extension cord! The vacuum cleaner plug went in but with a considerable fight! The vacuum cleaner has a two prong plug with one fat (very non technical term) prong. The two extension cords are three prong plugs without the fat prong. I thought that was the problem! BUT nooooo. One of the extension cords went into the outlet accompanied with a string of bad words to help it along! The other extension cord absolutely refused! I invented new swear words but it still would NOT go into the receptacle! Luckily my hammer was not within reach! I decided to check your channel for any info on TR receptacles....and here I am! Good to know that I am not insane! These things are rubbish! I am with Robert McNeil...I am beyond angry! I've just ordered a box of 10 "NON" Tamper Resistant receptacles from Home Depot! I will have to go through the whole process of replacing the eight receptacles in my sewing room. I have fingers crossed that the Eaton screwless cover plates are compatible with the new Legrand receptacles. FYI....I do NOT have nor will I ever have...children running around my house and if any show up at my door....I will turn them away until they turn 15! I am sure by that time they will not want to "tamper" with my receptacles! Sorry for this long rant! I love your channel! Thank you for digging into one of these Tamper Resistant receptacles so that I could see the cause of my anger! Who knew that a little spring and two tiny plastic trap doors could make so many see red! I can guarantee that I will smash at least one of these when I take it out of the wall!
We had a new house build right after this was adopted in our location. That was 10 year ago now and I'm not happy to say that EVERY outlet in the house failed. The spring pushing the doors closed also applies sideways force on any inserted plug. This led to premature failure of the outlets (some only lasted 2 years where items like lamps were left plugged in). It made the outlet so loose that the plugs would fall out (best case scenario). Many of them failed with arcing or a high resistance connection that turned the outlet brown from heat. Seriously, I will bet these TR outlets have been responsible for fires. In any case, I replaced all the outlets with non-tr outlets (legally sold for use in a garage). IDK, I would rather not burn my house down for a poorly designed copy of a UK plug!
I’m doing a remodel and I want to do things right the first time. Your information made it really clear and understandable. I’m going to take my regular ones that I just bought and get the TRs. Thank you so much.
I was putting a bunch of outlets with USB plugs in the middle into my new man cave attachment to my shop and one of those outlets wouldn't let plugs go in and I had to pound it in with a hammer. I would love to get outlets that don't have these shutters. The idea of having to force that clicking in all those outlets to get plugs to go into them is incredibly annoying. I understand the safety feature but quite frankly in my 67 years I've never had someone get shocked or die from sticking something in an outlet. Maybe when they come up with a better solution for this it will be worth it. But your video showing me the internal workings of these gives me an idea of how I can wiggle plugs around until they're able to go in.
OK, did they also do a study of how many kids put their finger in a light bulb socket of a lamp and get zapped - what next? I'm all for safety but these are a pain especially if you have to reach behind something and you have a tight space and can't see the outlet to well - then you end up moving furniture or appliances. Before you could just reach behind and deal with it. But thank you for the explanation I always wondered why I it was so hard, and sometimes impossible, to plug something in at the new (old) house. These outlets must be the reason.
Great🙄 I assumed tamper-resistant was some sort of crime prevention - people stealing Outlets. And I have just purchased a bunch, whatever the TR feature I wasn't interested in but the receptacles I wanted came that way so… And now I'm reading comments hating them… I have the feeling I have run up against tamper-resistant Outlets already. Memories of grunting and struggling to get a plug in and/or out thinking one or more of us were going to suffer permanent damage. Thank you, all of you, for bringing this to my attention, sigh. 😒
My previous apartment, which was presumably recently remodeled, had these. It was my first time encountering them, and it was such a pain to plug things in. If the plug was even slightly misaligned, it wouldn’t go in. Honestly, the Brits have a much smarter plug design. It is literally impossible to be shocked by the plug, and it won’t resist having a plug inserted. The only downside to it that I see is that every plug must have a ground pin which isn’t necessary on most electric/electronic devices. I also assume that it’s more robust, but I’m not British so I don’t know that for sure
The reason why British plugs require ground/earthed prongs on all devices, especially charging devices is because of the safety features, especially when there's a storm in your area, if a lightning strike happens in a house, the outlets would transform into the ground/earth instead of neutral from the hot/live outlets.
My issue is that many of my appliances have 3 prong cords and the prongs aren’t the same length, so even pressure is impossible without a lot of wiggling back and forth. To get my washing machine plugged in we had to jiggle the cord so much that the plastic plate on the outlet cracked, which seems unsafe. So which matters more...the safety of the real people who live here now or the safety of theoretical people who may never exist? People don’t install carseats that they don’t need on the off chance that the next owner has a kid. You build your house around your needs and the next owner makes adjustments that suit them.
The two load carrying prongs should always be the same length-the ground pin is longer for safety reasons and doesn't affect the shutters at all. Yeah these things are kind of annoying but it sounds like you got a particularly crappy receptacle!
I could stick a nail clipper into a tamper resistant (gfci tripped so i don’t get shocked), it’s not hard to bypass. Your prongs should always be same length.
He doesn't focus on the internals, but they are identical to the non-TR, and the clamping design of the hot and neutral are far superior to the Leviton residential. Also, I would not base how I equip my house on who might own it next--that's their problem. We are older and just bought a house with the intention of dying here--and I'm not spending the whole day trying to plug in something. They recently "upgraded" some outlets with TR (on ungrounded circuits, jumping ground and neutral--what a gift)--so since I have to undo their slimy attempts to fool the inspector, I'm just replacing the outlets with non-TR. I'll keep the TRs just in case. (and yes, the first outlet in each run is GFCI).
Why are some of the outlets so stiff? For most of our tamper resistant outlets I have to push with my full body weight and pound the plug in with my fist, which doesn't seem very safe either. Any ideas on how to fix this?
First, turn off the power. Then remove the outlet and throw it the trash. Jokes aside, if putting that much effort in it, the TR mechanism is done. My advice is to just replace it with a standard outlet. If you have kids, use the old plastic safety plugs.
Great video thanks! I am a licensed electrician, I am putting these into my house for our baby daughter, even though it is not a new install. I would highly recommend it if you have children under 8.
My problem is I have a TR outlet that has captured the night light that was plugged into it. I've tried everything short of breaking it to try and get it to release the light, but no no avail. I finally removed the outlet entirely and will take it back to Home Depot for an exchange.
If the outlet is more than 5 1/2’ above the floor, you do not have to install tamper resistant receptacles. (By the time you reach that age/height, you should probably have learned not to stick things in outlets)
Bent my vacuum plug trying to get past the doors on the plug now I can't use that plug in ever for the vacuum because the prong is bent. I've tried to straighten it but it doesn't work.
Just redid our kitchen and I hate these outlets because sometimes it's so hard to plug things in, so regular outlets it is. When I was young, a long time ago, I remember learning the hard way not to stick metallic objects into an outlet. We also never protected our outlets when our children were young. Sometimes you just have to find out the hard way not to do something stupid.
Some plugs won’t go into tr outlets. It’s either because they are bent causing one blade to be longer or they are pointed and not smooth on the tips causing there to be friction against the shutter so they don’t slide. I like the UK design better. The ground pin is longer and ground insertion opens the live holes. I also like the European version better - the plug goes into a recessed hole and is sealed that way before the contacts touch. And the pins are only conducive at the tips. The USA design where the pins are conductive near the housing is a bad design.
@@MarkLawry voltage is at these levels have limited extra safety both are deadly. The uk were lucky we could design our sockets from the start with safety in mind in the late 40s and even our earlier three pin round ones. Where as the US had to learn as you went along and then gain experience. With then retrofit safety which is harder and more difficult then if it was designed from scratch
when I was 3yo I put tweezers into the outlet and blow the breaker switch then the crying. Would this stop tweezers? Can you do a live Video demonstration with Tweezers?
Tamper resistant for the next owner, not my issue. It the next owner wants them they can put them in themselves. As for me I will stick with the plug covers as they are cheap and work.
We're adding a room and want to use combo USB A and USB C outlets. I bought 15 A Levitons which don't appear to have the plastic "gate" but are still labeled "TR". How do they work? Our electrician is hesitant to install therm.
Thanks for showing how this works. I now understand that I should be able to wiggle a plug side to side in order to move those shutters away a little bit easier.
I know they're not as cheap, but honestly I'd think I'd rather just use a GFCI plug. A lot less frustrating and probably provides overall better protection, even if it doesn't directly prevent improper items from being inserted into it.
I wonder if the NEC would allow GFCI protected branches. Put a GFCI at the beginning of a circuit and use non-tamper resistant outlets for the rest of that circuit. I'll have to read up on the code
Many new houses have combo gfci and arc fault breakers on all their 120vac circuits. Arc faults are required on all of them and gfci on all wet areas. The combo covers all the bases in one breaker per circuit. 240 volt circuits like the ac , oven, water heater etc don't require them.
I hate that I'm required to install these, as an electrician, mainly for this very reason. I have to gently insert both probes at the same time with equal pressure on the hot and neutral, then remove one if I want to test from hot to ground or neutral to ground for troubleshooting or checking polarity when I don't have my three light tester handy. Although I will admit, I am all for making homes safer for families with young children who don't yet understand the dangers electricity poses, and I find the tamper resistant receptacles a superior solution vs the plastic caps that were used when I was a toddler over 30 years ago since parents and babysitters sometimes forget to put them back in , and they can be a choking hazard
I detest these outlets. We started suffering failures of these infernal things one week after moving it to our new house. I will NEVER install another one of these.
Soooo, a WR TR receptacle is essentially a Corrosion resistant tamper resistant receptacle without the YELLOW face? Ok got it.. Yeah I do know of some weather resistant outlets in the past that instead of plastic tamper resistant shutters, had neoprene gasket shutters instead, as well as the stainless yoke, and bronze or nickle plated contacts.. P&S is the brand but I believe Leviton from the late 70s to mid 80s, had some high end YELLOW faced sockets like that too.
It's silly National Electrical Code (NEC) has started to introduce code that requires the use of Tamper Resistant outlets, like saying every house hold/ family must have a toddler or child before using outlet. It's better off for NEC to provide babysitter to every home owner if they are so concerned about children safety. .
But does that mean we can't upgrade to commercial in a residential setting if the new code requires tamper resistance..... Things that make you go hmmmmm
These things are annoying because you have to plug things in perfectly straight or it's kinda tough to get things to plug in. That being said, I have a baby now so I may just go ahead and install these annoying things all over my home. A handful of receptacles are junk and need replacing anyway. I'm pretty sure when this place was built they used the cheapest receptacles and switches available. More than half the switches were broken when I moved in. I replaced all the switches in the home with commercial grade ones. I think I will also install a couple more GFCI outlets, to replace those near the windows.
If installed as the first receptacle on the circuit, a single GFCI receptacle will protect all downstream normal receptacles in the same circuit, as if those are also GFCI receptacles, and it wouldn't necessarily be efficient to put multiples in a circuit or midstream or at the end of a run. If you put several GFCI receptacles on a single circuit, there is a chance that more than one will trip from the same incident, and you will have to go searching for all of those tripped GFCIs to completely restore power. It is a bit more complicated than replacing receptacles and may be worth hiring an electrician to do properly, but it's also not totally out of the realm of someone experienced in changing receptacles.
@@GeorgeVCohea-dw7ou yes, I know how they work. Believe it or not my home has more than one circuit feeding outlets near windows, so more than one gfci unit would be necessary.
Scott, I need to replace my outlets to comply with code. Plan to buy Legrand commercial per your recommendation. Want to buy tamper resistant even if it costs more to comply with code. But there is so much bitter complaining all over about how frustrating these outlets are to work with. I am tempted to avoid the frustration and ignore the code and buy non tamper resistant especially since they are still so widely available. Still sitting on the fence. Would appreciate your guidance here. Thanks!
Yeah, TR outlets can be frustrating. Technically you should install but it is also something where you can consider your situation. Do you have toddlers running around the house? This is the biggest reason for TR to ensure a toddler doesn't poke something into the hot side. I know in my area a TON of nonTR outlets are still sold every day.
Thank you for your quick response! There are no toddlers in my house. If I do install the non TR outlets, can an inspector require me to change these all out someday when I go to sell the home?
I finally made the decision that was right for me. Hopefully, it will be helpful to others making a decision on whether to buy TR outlets. I have no children living with me and want no possible frustration with TR outlets. Therefore, I decided to buy non TR outlets which are still widely available. If I someday sell my house, an inspector may require me to change them. This is a pain, but not catastrophic. And if the buyer doesn't have children, it may turn out to be no issue at all.
I install Temper Resistant outlets whenever I need a new one. Never had a problem inserting a plug. I feel like most people only complain because they don't like being told what to do so they are going to come up with any excuse they can think of. It's also not like things are getting plugged and unplugged constantly.
I've replaced every receptacle in my home with TR since I have a baby in the house. It's usually not a problem but they can sometimes be a bit fiddly to get something plugged in, especially if the prongs in the plug have gotten bent a little or something like that. I still think the added safety benefit is worth the little bit of hassle they cause.
Glad you guys think so!!! I have spent at least 15 tries trying to get something plugged in-finally after watching another video I tried that technique several times and finally got it in. I will not unplug that extension cord now until that Christmas decoration is put away!! Someone on here made a typo and called these temper resistant plugs! More like patience resistant!!!
@@todddanforth8853 2 years later and all of my tamper resistant plugs work just fine. Plugs in fine the first time it takes less than a second. It doesn't take rocket science to figure out how to plug something in. Good luck in the future with your plug adventure.
The tamper resistant need more work as several of my lamps and other appliances wont hardly go in without a lot of forcing and twisting if at all. They are a total pain!!!
My house has these outside with weather covers on top also. Unnecessary and annoying as shit. I have a one year old that doesn't have a chance in hell of getting to the outlet.
Just sent to an inspector friend. Told that fool nothing is different between the two . Wr outlets rust just the same . Waste of money , the real protection comes from the seal on the cover .
Hospital grade ones are even worse as the longer ground pin must also be pushed in before the other 2 will easily open. although most things in a hospital are 3 wire with a ground , some double insulated things that are rented to and go home with the patients like breast pumps are 2 wire and it takes a lot more effort to plug them in with no ground pin.
@@EverydayHomeRepairs The ground pin hole does not have a shutter per say but it does have a mechanism that helps open the ones over the bladed when a ground pin is inserted ,I'm retired now so I can't look for sure but I think they were Hubbell's
It would be okay if the actually worked as advertised, but my TRR outlets don't work the way they're supposed to. They virtually unusable! I will never allow an electrician to use these in my house again.
The question is, if all new receptacles needs to be temper resistant for now on, why does hardware stores still sell the non-temper resistant receptacles? It's technically illegal now.
There are plenty of uses and locations where TR is not necessary for code. ruclips.net/video/bDFaVyvkQMc/видео.html Basically, but not exclusively, it comes down to being necessary in cases where children would be expected to be. Commercial and industrial buildings in the vast majority of circumstances don't require these per national code...just yet, _but_ some local *AHJs* might require TR receptacles everywhere by this point. Also, receptacles above a certain height are exempt in residential, but if the rest of the house is fully TR, it's cheaper and should be expected to have TR receptacles, even where exemptions are possible. The penalty is generally quite low for homeowners to be ignorant of codes, this is until they go to sell their house. So yeah, there is enough market demand for production and availability to continue for the foreseeable future.
@@GeorgeVCohea-dw7ou but there are indeed residential-grade non-TR receptacles, which can't be used in the vast majority of cases, at this point I think they should just stop making them because we well know people will buy a bunch of them at Home Depot to replace all the receptacles in their house. And, well, aside from new houses where the code already prohibited non-TR receptacles at the time of construction, it's bit hard to know whether a receptacle has been installed before or after TR has been made mandatory.
@@HCkev It is, what it is. Manufacturers know what is going on, but there are loopholes all around. The NEC should close these sooner rather than later. Manufacturers would get the benefit of selling more expensive commercial grade non-TR, if the playing field were leveled. _“Who am kidding, China would dump noncompliant receptacles through online channels, and _*_those people_*_ would potentially get a less safe overall product!”_ TR is a great feature, but if it comes down to people having a good safe name brand product without TR over a chinesium receptacle of dubious quality, it kind of still makes sense for the time being.
@@GeorgeVCohea-dw7ou Well honestly, I highly doubt the fact that it cost < $0.5 more per receptacle for TR would push people into buying no-name China receptacles that will take weeks to ship. But I guess keeping the non-TR widely available is a good way to spot electrical jobs that hasn't been done by an electrician
More incompetence from the government. Ruining the product in the name of safety. Where is the data on life expectancy? Saw one for the first time today.
I fixed my outlets by jamming a screwdriver in until the plastic breaks, works great.
Yes yes yes. That is why I'm even watching this crap. To show my younger friend that you just SHUV IT IN.
I just spent 20+ minutes trying to plug something back in. I hate these damn things and I still didn’t get it back in. I think some brands are worse than others. I always have trouble with this one and try to never unplug anything from it. I even tried the tips I’ve found and still nothing. It’s a gfci with USB ports and I may try taking it apart to “fix” it
Your channel has been VERY helpful! I LOVE you!!! I've just finished painting my sewing room and installing (with your help) "eight" new Eaton "TR" receptacles with screwless cover plates. Oh....and I picked up an ECX screw driver because I have plans well beyond this one room! Anyway, my sewing room is white, bright, fresh and..."almost" perfect! I've been moving my stuff back in over the last two days! About an hour ago...I "attempted" to plug in an extension cord for my sewing machine but it was "impossible"! Totally perplexed...I went to a different receptacle thinking that I had a "bad" one! Same thing! So I gathered a few other cords...three...to rule out my extension cord plug as the culprit! I used my vacuum cleaner and a second (but different brand) extension cord! The vacuum cleaner plug went in but with a considerable fight! The vacuum cleaner has a two prong plug with one fat (very non technical term) prong. The two extension cords are three prong plugs without the fat prong. I thought that was the problem! BUT nooooo. One of the extension cords went into the outlet accompanied with a string of bad words to help it along! The other extension cord absolutely refused! I invented new swear words but it still would NOT go into the receptacle! Luckily my hammer was not within reach! I decided to check your channel for any info on TR receptacles....and here I am! Good to know that I am not insane! These things are rubbish! I am with Robert McNeil...I am beyond angry! I've just ordered a box of 10 "NON" Tamper Resistant receptacles from Home Depot! I will have to go through the whole process of replacing the eight receptacles in my sewing room. I have fingers crossed that the Eaton screwless cover plates are compatible with the new Legrand receptacles.
FYI....I do NOT have nor will I ever have...children running around my house and if any show up at my door....I will turn them away until they turn 15! I am sure by that time they will not want to "tamper" with my receptacles!
Sorry for this long rant! I love your channel! Thank you for digging into one of these Tamper Resistant receptacles so that I could see the cause of my anger! Who knew that a little spring and two tiny plastic trap doors could make so many see red! I can guarantee that I will smash at least one of these when I take it out of the wall!
Can you please explain the bottom line technique to insert a plug? It does help to know the spring loadedshutters have to be simultaneously pushed.
We had a new house build right after this was adopted in our location. That was 10 year ago now and I'm not happy to say that EVERY outlet in the house failed. The spring pushing the doors closed also applies sideways force on any inserted plug. This led to premature failure of the outlets (some only lasted 2 years where items like lamps were left plugged in). It made the outlet so loose that the plugs would fall out (best case scenario). Many of them failed with arcing or a high resistance connection that turned the outlet brown from heat.
Seriously, I will bet these TR outlets have been responsible for fires.
In any case, I replaced all the outlets with non-tr outlets (legally sold for use in a garage). IDK, I would rather not burn my house down for a poorly designed copy of a UK plug!
I’m doing a remodel and I want to do things right the first time. Your information made it really clear and understandable. I’m going to take my regular ones that I just bought and get the TRs. Thank you so much.
Dude! I'm from Brazil and I decided to buy some of those outlets to test. I was intrigued about how it worked. Thanks for teaching!!
I was putting a bunch of outlets with USB plugs in the middle into my new man cave attachment to my shop and one of those outlets wouldn't let plugs go in and I had to pound it in with a hammer. I would love to get outlets that don't have these shutters. The idea of having to force that clicking in all those outlets to get plugs to go into them is incredibly annoying. I understand the safety feature but quite frankly in my 67 years I've never had someone get shocked or die from sticking something in an outlet. Maybe when they come up with a better solution for this it will be worth it.
But your video showing me the internal workings of these gives me an idea of how I can wiggle plugs around until they're able to go in.
OK, did they also do a study of how many kids put their finger in a light bulb socket of a lamp and get zapped - what next? I'm all for safety but these are a pain especially if you have to reach behind something and you have a tight space and can't see the outlet to well - then you end up moving furniture or appliances. Before you could just reach behind and deal with it. But thank you for the explanation I always wondered why I it was so hard, and sometimes impossible, to plug something in at the new (old) house. These outlets must be the reason.
Great🙄 I assumed tamper-resistant was some sort of crime prevention - people stealing Outlets. And I have just purchased a bunch, whatever the TR feature I wasn't interested in but the receptacles I wanted came that way so…
And now I'm reading comments hating them… I have the feeling I have run up against tamper-resistant Outlets already. Memories of grunting and struggling to get a plug in and/or out thinking one or more of us were going to suffer permanent damage.
Thank you, all of you, for bringing this to my attention, sigh. 😒
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Well, good thing you bought temper resistant outlets, they're mandatory now
My previous apartment, which was presumably recently remodeled, had these. It was my first time encountering them, and it was such a pain to plug things in. If the plug was even slightly misaligned, it wouldn’t go in. Honestly, the Brits have a much smarter plug design. It is literally impossible to be shocked by the plug, and it won’t resist having a plug inserted. The only downside to it that I see is that every plug must have a ground pin which isn’t necessary on most electric/electronic devices. I also assume that it’s more robust, but I’m not British so I don’t know that for sure
The reason why British plugs require ground/earthed prongs on all devices, especially charging devices is because of the safety features, especially when there's a storm in your area, if a lightning strike happens in a house, the outlets would transform into the ground/earth instead of neutral from the hot/live outlets.
My issue is that many of my appliances have 3 prong cords and the prongs aren’t the same length, so even pressure is impossible without a lot of wiggling back and forth. To get my washing machine plugged in we had to jiggle the cord so much that the plastic plate on the outlet cracked, which seems unsafe. So which matters more...the safety of the real people who live here now or the safety of theoretical people who may never exist? People don’t install carseats that they don’t need on the off chance that the next owner has a kid. You build your house around your needs and the next owner makes adjustments that suit them.
The two load carrying prongs should always be the same length-the ground pin is longer for safety reasons and doesn't affect the shutters at all. Yeah these things are kind of annoying but it sounds like you got a particularly crappy receptacle!
I could stick a nail clipper into a tamper resistant (gfci tripped so i don’t get shocked), it’s not hard to bypass. Your prongs should always be same length.
I mean, this is like saying USB ports suck because I have some poorly-made USB cables that are kinda bent and don't really fit.
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He doesn't focus on the internals, but they are identical to the non-TR, and the clamping design of the hot and neutral are far superior to the Leviton residential.
Also, I would not base how I equip my house on who might own it next--that's their problem. We are older and just bought a house with the intention of dying here--and I'm not spending the whole day trying to plug in something. They recently "upgraded" some outlets with TR (on ungrounded circuits, jumping ground and neutral--what a gift)--so since I have to undo their slimy attempts to fool the inspector, I'm just replacing the outlets with non-TR. I'll keep the TRs just in case. (and yes, the first outlet in each run is GFCI).
Why are some of the outlets so stiff? For most of our tamper resistant outlets I have to push with my full body weight and pound the plug in with my fist, which doesn't seem very safe either. Any ideas on how to fix this?
First, turn off the power. Then remove the outlet and throw it the trash. Jokes aside, if putting that much effort in it, the TR mechanism is done. My advice is to just replace it with a standard outlet. If you have kids, use the old plastic safety plugs.
I have some older tr outlets in my house from 2009 and I’m pretty sure the shutters are stuck open on most of the outlets after years of use.
Great video thanks! I am a licensed electrician, I am putting these into my house for our baby daughter, even though it is not a new install. I would highly recommend it if you have children under 8.
My problem is I have a TR outlet that has captured the night light that was plugged into it. I've tried everything short of breaking it to try and get it to release the light, but no no avail. I finally removed the outlet entirely and will take it back to Home Depot for an exchange.
These will be the standard everywhere soon.
If the outlet is more than 5 1/2’ above the floor, you do not have to install tamper resistant receptacles. (By the time you reach that age/height, you should probably have learned not to stick things in outlets)
Thanks for helping with the details on the code Muhammad, appreciate the feedback.
These things always manage to kick my ass when I try to plug things in.
Clear explanations and thoughts. Thanks.
Never understood the point of TR outlets when there are so few TR power strips.
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Bent my vacuum plug trying to get past the doors on the plug now I can't use that plug in ever for the vacuum because the prong is bent. I've tried to straighten it but it doesn't work.
You will have to replace the plug if it's damaged.
Just redid our kitchen and I hate these outlets because sometimes it's so hard to plug things in, so regular outlets it is. When I was young, a long time ago, I remember learning the hard way not to stick metallic objects into an outlet. We also never protected our outlets when our children were young. Sometimes you just have to find out the hard way not to do something stupid.
The plug is a choke hazard!
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a well placed ____solved my challenge
These things are ridiculous and should never have been allowed to hit the market!
Very informative. Thank you.
You are welcome!
Some plugs won’t go into tr outlets. It’s either because they are bent causing one blade to be longer or they are pointed and not smooth on the tips causing there to be friction against the shutter so they don’t slide. I like the UK design better. The ground pin is longer and ground insertion opens the live holes. I also like the European version better - the plug goes into a recessed hole and is sealed that way before the contacts touch. And the pins are only conducive at the tips. The USA design where the pins are conductive near the housing is a bad design.
Of course, the UK receptacles are also 240 V.
@@MarkLawry voltage is at these levels have limited extra safety both are deadly. The uk were lucky we could design our sockets from the start with safety in mind in the late 40s and even our earlier three pin round ones. Where as the US had to learn as you went along and then gain experience. With then retrofit safety which is harder and more difficult then if it was designed from scratch
when I was 3yo I put tweezers into the outlet and blow the breaker switch then the crying.
Would this stop tweezers?
Can you do a live Video demonstration with Tweezers?
Tamper resistant for the next owner, not my issue. It the next owner wants them they can put them in themselves. As for me I will stick with the plug covers as they are cheap and work.
This. Karen can buy her own outlets.
We're adding a room and want to use combo USB A and USB C outlets. I bought 15 A Levitons which don't appear to have the plastic "gate" but are still labeled "TR". How do they work? Our electrician is hesitant to install therm.
Thanks for showing how this works. I now understand that I should be able to wiggle a plug side to side in order to move those shutters away a little bit easier.
Glad it helped
Thank you
I know they're not as cheap, but honestly I'd think I'd rather just use a GFCI plug. A lot less frustrating and probably provides overall better protection, even if it doesn't directly prevent improper items from being inserted into it.
I wonder if the NEC would allow GFCI protected branches. Put a GFCI at the beginning of a circuit and use non-tamper resistant outlets for the rest of that circuit. I'll have to read up on the code
Many new houses have combo gfci and arc fault breakers on all their 120vac circuits. Arc faults are required on all of them and gfci on all wet areas. The combo covers all the bases in one breaker per circuit. 240 volt circuits like the ac , oven, water heater etc don't require them.
Way to go EATON!
My biggest complaint with these is trying to test them with prongs from a multimeter or voltmeter
I hate that I'm required to install these, as an electrician, mainly for this very reason. I have to gently insert both probes at the same time with equal pressure on the hot and neutral, then remove one if I want to test from hot to ground or neutral to ground for troubleshooting or checking polarity when I don't have my three light tester handy.
Although I will admit, I am all for making homes safer for families with young children who don't yet understand the dangers electricity poses, and I find the tamper resistant receptacles a superior solution vs the plastic caps that were used when I was a toddler over 30 years ago since parents and babysitters sometimes forget to put them back in , and they can be a choking hazard
I detest these outlets. We started suffering failures of these infernal things one week after moving it to our new house. I will NEVER install another one of these.
u should try another manufacturer
Same here they suck.
Soooo, a WR TR receptacle is essentially a Corrosion resistant tamper resistant receptacle without the YELLOW face? Ok got it.. Yeah I do know of some weather resistant outlets in the past that instead of plastic tamper resistant shutters, had neoprene gasket shutters instead, as well as the stainless yoke, and bronze or nickle plated contacts.. P&S is the brand but I believe Leviton from the late 70s to mid 80s, had some high end YELLOW faced sockets like that too.
Good video thanks for cutting it open Danny boy👍🏻😎
Thanks Danny!
It's silly National Electrical Code (NEC) has started to introduce code that requires the use of Tamper Resistant outlets, like saying every house hold/ family must have a toddler or child before using outlet. It's better off for NEC to provide babysitter to every home owner if they are so concerned about children safety. .
But does that mean we can't upgrade to commercial in a residential setting if the new code requires tamper resistance..... Things that make you go hmmmmm
Hey Patrick, nope you can get a commercial grade TR receptacle at pretty much any home improvement store.
These things are annoying because you have to plug things in perfectly straight or it's kinda tough to get things to plug in.
That being said, I have a baby now so I may just go ahead and install these annoying things all over my home. A handful of receptacles are junk and need replacing anyway. I'm pretty sure when this place was built they used the cheapest receptacles and switches available. More than half the switches were broken when I moved in. I replaced all the switches in the home with commercial grade ones. I think I will also install a couple more GFCI outlets, to replace those near the windows.
If installed as the first receptacle on the circuit, a single GFCI receptacle will protect all downstream normal receptacles in the same circuit, as if those are also GFCI receptacles, and it wouldn't necessarily be efficient to put multiples in a circuit or midstream or at the end of a run. If you put several GFCI receptacles on a single circuit, there is a chance that more than one will trip from the same incident, and you will have to go searching for all of those tripped GFCIs to completely restore power. It is a bit more complicated than replacing receptacles and may be worth hiring an electrician to do properly, but it's also not totally out of the realm of someone experienced in changing receptacles.
@@GeorgeVCohea-dw7ou yes, I know how they work. Believe it or not my home has more than one circuit feeding outlets near windows, so more than one gfci unit would be necessary.
Scott, I need to replace my outlets to comply with code. Plan to buy Legrand commercial per your recommendation. Want to buy tamper resistant even if it costs more to comply with code.
But there is so much bitter complaining all over about how frustrating these outlets are to work with. I am tempted to avoid the frustration and ignore the code and buy non tamper resistant especially since they are still so widely available. Still sitting on the fence. Would appreciate your guidance here. Thanks!
Yeah, TR outlets can be frustrating. Technically you should install but it is also something where you can consider your situation. Do you have toddlers running around the house? This is the biggest reason for TR to ensure a toddler doesn't poke something into the hot side. I know in my area a TON of nonTR outlets are still sold every day.
Thank you for your quick response! There are no toddlers in my house. If I do install the non TR outlets, can an inspector require me to change these all out someday when I go to sell the home?
I finally made the decision that was right for me. Hopefully, it will be helpful to others making a decision on whether to buy TR outlets.
I have no children living with me and want no possible frustration with TR outlets. Therefore, I decided to buy non TR outlets which are still widely available. If I someday sell my house, an inspector may require me to change them. This is a pain, but not catastrophic. And if the buyer doesn't have children, it may turn out to be no issue at all.
I install Temper Resistant outlets whenever I need a new one. Never had a problem inserting a plug. I feel like most people only complain because they don't like being told what to do so they are going to come up with any excuse they can think of. It's also not like things are getting plugged and unplugged constantly.
I've replaced every receptacle in my home with TR since I have a baby in the house. It's usually not a problem but they can sometimes be a bit fiddly to get something plugged in, especially if the prongs in the plug have gotten bent a little or something like that. I still think the added safety benefit is worth the little bit of hassle they cause.
Glad you guys think so!!! I have spent at least 15 tries trying to get something plugged in-finally after watching another video I tried that technique several times and finally got it in. I will not unplug that extension cord now until that Christmas decoration is put away!! Someone on here made a typo and called these temper resistant plugs! More like patience resistant!!!
@@todddanforth8853 2 years later and all of my tamper resistant plugs work just fine. Plugs in fine the first time it takes less than a second. It doesn't take rocket science to figure out how to plug something in. Good luck in the future with your plug adventure.
TR receptacles, keeping kids and generally anyone from plugging anything in 😂
Darwin gets his blood, eventually.
Sooner or later.
Anybody that thinks these are a good idea are currently eating tidepods
The tamper resistant need more work as several of my lamps and other appliances wont hardly go in without a lot of forcing and twisting if at all. They are a total pain!!!
Nice vid❣️
My house has these outside with weather covers on top also. Unnecessary and annoying as shit. I have a one year old that doesn't have a chance in hell of getting to the outlet.
does he have a teleprompter, it feels like he does
Nope, no script no prompter. Not sure if that is a good or bad thing 🤷♂️
frigg'n nanny state!
Just sent to an inspector friend. Told that fool nothing is different between the two . Wr outlets rust just the same . Waste of money , the real protection comes from the seal on the cover .
I hate these so much. It is so hard to plug anything in
The multimeter leads worst nightmare or should I say the electrician enemy
I can’t get most of them to work!
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Hospital grade ones are even worse as the longer ground pin must also be pushed in before the other 2 will easily open. although most things in a hospital are 3 wire with a ground , some double insulated things that are rented to and go home with the patients like breast pumps are 2 wire and it takes a lot more effort to plug them in with no ground pin.
Interesting, I haven't seen the internals of a TR which integrates a shutter the ground plug hole as well.
@@EverydayHomeRepairs The ground pin hole does not have a shutter per say but it does have a mechanism that helps open the ones over the bladed when a ground pin is inserted ,I'm retired now so I can't look for sure but I think they were Hubbell's
It would be okay if the actually worked as advertised, but my TRR outlets don't work the way they're supposed to. They virtually unusable! I will never allow an electrician to use these in my house again.
Bottom line: Nanny State strikes again. Controlling everyone's life to protect us from a few parents that can't handle their kids.
The question is, if all new receptacles needs to be temper resistant for now on, why does hardware stores still sell the non-temper resistant receptacles? It's technically illegal now.
There are plenty of uses and locations where TR is not necessary for code. ruclips.net/video/bDFaVyvkQMc/видео.html Basically, but not exclusively, it comes down to being necessary in cases where children would be expected to be. Commercial and industrial buildings in the vast majority of circumstances don't require these per national code...just yet, _but_ some local *AHJs* might require TR receptacles everywhere by this point. Also, receptacles above a certain height are exempt in residential, but if the rest of the house is fully TR, it's cheaper and should be expected to have TR receptacles, even where exemptions are possible. The penalty is generally quite low for homeowners to be ignorant of codes, this is until they go to sell their house. So yeah, there is enough market demand for production and availability to continue for the foreseeable future.
@@GeorgeVCohea-dw7ou but there are indeed residential-grade non-TR receptacles, which can't be used in the vast majority of cases, at this point I think they should just stop making them because we well know people will buy a bunch of them at Home Depot to replace all the receptacles in their house.
And, well, aside from new houses where the code already prohibited non-TR receptacles at the time of construction, it's bit hard to know whether a receptacle has been installed before or after TR has been made mandatory.
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It is, what it is. Manufacturers know what is going on, but there are loopholes all around. The NEC should close these sooner rather than later. Manufacturers would get the benefit of selling more expensive commercial grade non-TR, if the playing field were leveled. _“Who am kidding, China would dump noncompliant receptacles through online channels, and _*_those people_*_ would potentially get a less safe overall product!”_
TR is a great feature, but if it comes down to people having a good safe name brand product without TR over a chinesium receptacle of dubious quality, it kind of still makes sense for the time being.
@@GeorgeVCohea-dw7ou Well honestly, I highly doubt the fact that it cost < $0.5 more per receptacle for TR would push people into buying no-name China receptacles that will take weeks to ship. But I guess keeping the non-TR widely available is a good way to spot electrical jobs that hasn't been done by an electrician
Prisoners can be so inventive i wonder how many shocked themselves before these
More incompetence from the government. Ruining the product in the name of safety. Where is the data on life expectancy? Saw one for the first time today.
Hey all Scott here!
PIA! Stupid idea that creates more work, like the new gas cans they leak all the time. Ughh .
......they don't.
These things absolutely suck.
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i read this too fast and saw it as "how do tampons really work" - dont ask
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WE HATE TR RECEPTACLES!!! IS THIS THE BEST THAT AMERICAN DESIGNERS CAN COME UP WITH???
Fuck tamper resistant plugs
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