5.5 Electrical Tools MUST HAVES

in this video I'm going to show you five and a half electrical tools that are must-haves that all fit conveniently in this little bag and if you're new this channel my name is Josh your channel is all about building your house save a ton of money be sure to subscribe ring that Bell so you get notification every time I release new video and Hammer that like button for me that's all I asking turn for making this video so at any point in this video you want to purchase any of these tools there's a link to them in the description below let's get started the first tool that I'd like to go over is this non-contact voltage tester and this is made by Klein as you can see if we take a look at the back it's good from 50 to a thousand volts and it only detects AC current and not DC current so AC current is what runs through your house and if we pop this back off this is where the batteries are stored as you can see it requires two aaa's in order to power the device and it came with the batteries just so you know and this end will also act as a place to where you can clip it onto your shirt and in order the power on the device we just hold the power button down just for a second and release and the green light indicates that it's powered on and in order to power the device off we just hold it down for another Split Second and it powered it off now if you don't want to hear that noise when you power it on and off and it also makes that same noise when you're using it which I'll demonstrate that here in just a moment you hold this power button down for longer than a split second for a second or two and when it turns on as you can see it did not make any noise and when you go to use it it also will not make any noise so if you want to use it silently that's how you do it and turn it off you hold it back down and you turn off just like you did the first time so now let's go use this so I can show you how it works to demonstrate how this tester works I put together the white neutral wires here and the black hot wires together here so you'll see the distinct difference here now we're going to power on the tester and if we place this up against a white neutral as you can see it's not beeping or anything so you would think there was no power to this circuit but if we go over to the black hot wire it's beeping very easily and it's on the same circuit as this white wire and that's because this does not detect the power or anything that's in the neutral wire so you're going to want to make sure when you're testing out an outlet or a circuit that you're testing it up against the black wire and if we touch the ground wire as you can see it's not going to detect anything there as well and something you're going to want to do before you rely on this tester is go to a wire that you know is hot for instance this to make sure your tester is working properly before you use it to rely on turning off an outlet to work on it as you've probably already noticed the end of the tester is shaped like the prong of a cord that's because it'll allow you to slide the end of the tester into a receptacle and just so you know if you bump this tester it's going to show a red light and as if there is voltage so if you tap it it's because it's detecting the vibrate operations so don't get confused thinking there's power to something all because you just tapped it against something so we're going to slide it into this receptacle on this side of it and as you can see it's not beeping as if there's no power but if we slide it into this side and it's going to be and this is beeping because this is the hot side of the receptacle so you want to make sure that you test both sides of the receptacle before seeing if there's any power in it if we plug it into the circular part that's for the ground as you can see it's not detecting anything so we know there's power to this receptacle because it's beeping in the hot side of the receptacle and now if we plug in a cord like this I want to show you something that's really critical if you hold it up to this side it's beeping but if we hold up to this side it is not so it's very important that when you're checking to see if there's power to a cord go around the whole thing so that way you know if there's power in it if you're not up against the power it won't beep so very important to note about this Con non-contact tester I pulled this receptacle out of the wall so you can see this demonstrated on a receptacle so as you can see if you touch these silver terminals there's no beeping but if we touch the gold terminals where the black wires are located it's clearly has power now if you're wondering how do you test the switch it's the same idea you just touch the terminals with the tester and it will beep if there's power to it the second must-have tool is two tools in one we got our transmitter and our receiver that's four finding Breakers this is a digital breaker finder and this part will come with it that you can store on the end like this and what this does is we plug this into an outlet and then we'll take the one that's on the other side that's the receiver and we're going to find the breaker in the panel box using this device let me show you how it works because this is technically two tools in one this counts as two and three in the list of must have tools if we take this end off the first one I want to go over is the part that's the transmitter and this transmitter acts as a GFI outlet tester and what I mean by that is we're going to plug this into an outlet and you're going to get these codes telling you if it's wired correctly or if it's wired wrong and then we can test the outlet at the same time if it's a GFI this receptacle is part of the kitchen this is the island and it is GFI protected via the breaker now this does not require batteries to operate unlike the non-contact voltage tester I just showed you so all we got to do with this will slide it right into the receptacle and this is a chart of any wiring that may be wrong it's going to show up and to give you a code to address that issue but as you can see this is correctly wired because we got two yellow lights here on the end and that's what's represented on the this chart so because it's a GFI protected circuit if we press this button it's going to short out the circuit and if this circuit was not GFI protected if we press this button it won't do anything and it won't trip it so if we press it now it kicked the breaker and it is correctly wired and it is GFI protected now this receptacle is not on a GFI and if we plug this in it gives us our same code as same correctly wired but if we press this in it will not trip the breaker so that's something to keep in mind if you go to test this on a circuit and it's not tripping the breaker it's more than likely not a GFI protected circuit I'm not going to show you how to use the digital circuit breaker finder and this is the outlet tester that I was just showing you how to use and this is the outlet or receptacle that we're just testing so I'm going to plug this back into that outlet now we're going to head to the panel box with the receiver I just noticed a really crazy phenomenon watch the light on this it's going to light back up see that here in person without the camera if you're looking at with your own eyes the light stayed solid the whole time but right now while I'm making this video I noticed on film it looked like it was going off but right now it is still on in real life very weird leave a comment below if you've ever noticed such a thing I'm over here at my breaker box with the receiver and something to note it did come with a 9 volt battery and requires a 9 volt battery to power this and it is inside the handle of the receiver and in order to turn this on all we got to do is press this power button on just for a Split Second and you see the green light come on and you hear the beeping that's what it sounds like when it has not detected the circuit yet and all we got to do with this the first thing I like to do is go over each breaker like this and you see it's probably that one but we're going to go through all of them first all right so the only one that it could have been was up here right there so you can see it's a red light it's beeping like crazy and you notice the beeping speeds up as you get closer to the breaker so like I mentioned before that circuit is GFI protected and the purple test buttons or GFI Breakers so if we kick this it should have kicked the power to that circuit and as you can see it's not detecting anything there and something to note when you power this back on it's not going to detect it as easy so it's recommended that you turn this off then turn it back on in order to use it again so if we go through here it detects it way better so always make sure you reset your receiver after you kick the breaker off and on my number four must-have electrical tool is the Klein catapult automatic wire stripper and wire cutter let me show you how it works the thing I love most about these wire strippers is the versatility of them and right here is where the wire cutter is located and as you can see it can take up to a 10 gauge wire and how this works is around back there's a hole and all you got to do is slide your wire right into it it's going to come out the front here and then you squeeze it and the blade is going to come out and cut it right in the back where that Blade's coming out through the hole and now we just squeeze now for the automatic stripping tool that's located up here on the head it can strip anywhere from a 8 gauge to 20 gauge solid wire and a 10 to 22 gauge stranded wire and all we've got to do if you take a look at the numbers here see that 12 I got a 12 gauge wire right here and in order to use it all we got to do is just line up with that 12 and slide it through the back here so all we got to do is go somewhere like so so you want to strip that much off of it we just squeeze real slow it's going to pull that sheathing right off and that's all there is to it and this thing is very precise wherever that wire is looped over the end of the edge here that's where it's going to be cut so as you can see we can place and just cut that little bit off with no problem another great feature to these you can buy replacement blades if these ever get worn out I have used these a good bit and it has held up very well definitely good build quality and they may not be suitable for every situation but for 99 percent of situations this thing works great number five on the list is a wire twister this thing is really cool and you're really going to like what you're about to see let me show you how it works if we take a look at the wire twister up close as you can see it has a quarter inch Chuck that can fit on an impact driver or a drill and if you take a look at the opening here it is slotted and as you can imagine it's for the wing of the wire nut to catch on to be tightened down so if we take a look even the smallest wire nut like this size will fit down into it and catches on the side very easily and if you take a look at this number 18 wire nut it has wings on it so I've noticed that the wings definitely grip onto this tool better and it is very simple how this works but I want to show you putting wires together here as well now if we take this number 14 wire nut as you can see it slides in there very easily and it grips it probably better than the rest of them so if you notice the wings are definitely going to be helpful for using this tool and now let me show you how to connect wires together using this in order to place this in a drill you simply just slide it into the Chuck of the drill like you would anything else and then tighten it down and make sure it's in there really well and now whenever I put together wires using wire nuts how always twist the wires together using linemans so in order to do that all I do is grab the end here and then twist them together like so just to make sure they're connected well and now in order to use this tool we take our wire nut slide it into the end on the wire twister just like so and now we're going to place it right over those wires and tighten it down and as you can see that tightened it up really easy now that's just a cool tool to have if you've got a lot of wire nuts to do and as you can see it saves your fingers from having to twist it together like so and if this was attached to an electrical outlet or something it would have been easier to see how well that torqued it down so now let's say you wanted to put these together and you didn't want to twist them together first but I always recommend you do so but I just wanted to show you how it would work so we'd slide them all in like so and then we'd tighten them down so as you can see it's more of an exaggerated thing when you don't twist them together first just so you can see now if we undo it we'll see the difference between the first method in this one and it's not Twisted together nearly as good as twisting them together like we did first so I always recommend you use the lineman's first regardless my final must-have tool really isn't necessarily a tool but I felt like it should be on this list because it is very helpful for diyers and homeowners and they are the Wago lever nuts these babies are extremely useful and easy to use let me show you how they work whenever I buy these Legos I like to buy an assortment of them so you have some available for each situation as you can see this is one that's rated for five wires at once and then it goes clear down to two wires and also these are good for 24 to 12 gauge wire so anything in between you can use the same nut on which is very handy and they're very simple to use honestly they're super easy to use anybody can figure these out pretty easily the good thing about these as well is they can be used on stranded wire or solid wire so let's take this one that's rated for three wires and as you can see all you got to do is open up the lever like this and that's going to allow you to slide a wire inside here and it has a clear plastic back so you can make sure the wire is placed properly so all we got to do to put a wire in it is take it and Slide the wire right into one of those ports right like so and then shut the lever and that's all there is to it if we take a look in the back as you can see we have sheathing up to here and then it goes into this bar to where all the wires connect and then you have a little bit of sticking out right here and in order to place more wires in there all we got to do is slide them right in and shut the lever and so on and so forth as you can see that was almost too easy and this is so much easier than using a wire nut that it's ridiculous to be honest with you if we take a look here if you look at these ports in the back you can slide a tester in here even after it's connected and you can also slide a tester in from this side as well right into that little slot if you wanted to test it the circuit for whatever reason using the wire nut and this is very nice because you can undo your wiring much easier than a regular wire nut as well so let's say we had to add a extra black for a power to switch or something all we'd have to do is lift up the levers and you can just pull this right out and boom you're ready to go I mean it's just such a nice device that I had included on this list I know I only counted it as 0.5 of on the list but it was something I needed to include because it's going to be very helpful for anybody watching in this video to know something like this is out there to use if you would like to know how I wired this panel box check out this video [Music]

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Length: 16min 2sec (962 seconds)

Published: Sun Nov 27 2022