Electrical Wiring for the Gaming Center - What could go wrong?

in spite of our complete silence ever since we showed off the first prototype of what will be the systems in the lmg land gaming center we have been hard at work in the background on the ultimate employee lounge and it is going to be freaking awesome keyword being going to be first we have a lot of repetitive ass work to do wiring up this place for electricity and networking but there's a plus side i brought back brian to help hey guys remember the guy from the like uh uh electric car charger video with all the good jokes which they're actually slightly shorter but not in a way that matters it's not as thick either linus well they were jokes anyway they were something like this you know what's no joke though our sponsor for this video origin pc builds custom desktops and high performance laptops with free lifetime 24 7 tech support and they only use high-end components like samsung's 970 evo pro m.2 ssd visit origin pc today at the link below for a special promo [Music] okay so um why don't we do a haul video here sure like is that is that a thing that they do in the electrician business so this here is our big oh my god do you want me to hold that no i can hold it this is our big old spool of electrical wiring what what's this called it's 14 3 lumex 14 3 lumex is that like the good oh it's the adequate it's what you use for wood frame it's what you use for wood frame yeah come on in closer come on check check this check this stuff out long story short our uh so you told them cat6a right yes because all of our gaming systems are going to be 10 gig because we can um and brian says he specifically told the supplier cat6a and they delivered cat 5e we called them we're like hey yo we need cat 6a they're like yo we don't have any of that good luck and we called a few other places nobody has it really like it's crazy well i remember too back when we ordered this pool we had to get it from the states we had to special order it but the good news is even though we didn't get the right wiring we found this spool of cat6a so it's a nightmare to work with but that's okay because we're terminating into keystone jacks this time so it should be a complete non-issue and i found all the old runs from the old office that we used to have up in carabiners screwed into the ceiling running from like the bottom floor up to the top floor finally speaker wire so we're going to wire the whole place up for sound not necessarily really knowing exactly what we're going to install and when we would do it oh yeah right more cool stuff uh electrical boxes these are couplings for the conduit and then these are snap-in connectors bunch of light switches and whatnot a bunch of uh terminations for our networking plugs plugs and then we got this what is this that is just a really big junction box we'll run a conduit or two out of the panel yeah we'll run the conduit to this box up on the wall and then from here we'll break out to all the plugs and the lighting in the room okay so basically the deal today is i'm your like totally untrained apprentice i'm your assistant so whatever it is that we're gonna do i'm gonna do some of it too sure so why don't we start with mounting boxes sure i noticed you brought a lot of drills you know we have drills here yes but i like using my drills right but you can't use four drills at once well they all have a different purpose this is corded so there's no batteries to kill for one this is a regular drill and then the other two are impacts okay just compensating so why don't we grab that giant box of goodies okay that's my job right i got it sure okay i'm gonna put it over here the following instructions sir yes sir how about i move the ladder is that an apprentice job sure i got it sir the ladder has been relocated sir you're an apprentice you're not in the military right so what do i need from this box two gang box two gang box single gang box single gang box yeah these holes are gangs then essentially yeah so how many devices you can got it yep then we just need screws how to drill is this kind of like pc building where you just don't bother with all eight of them or like yeah if you use all eight that is hugely overkill so this is kind of eyeballed anyway hey yeah ow with a dead battery dead battery brings all the drills brings no batteries so basically brian's the kind of guy that's got the tool but none of the stamina no no i just have a day job that i use those areas yeah you heard me brian okay so that seems solid enough i mounted a box so now we need a data ring oh wow it comes with screws already in it they should all be like this that's amazing actually are they robertson or phillips though phillips of course ow okay cool so that's done what now now we drill holes and pull wire that sounds really fun i don't know if i should trust you with this but okay what uh where do i put the hole so we're gonna need one over here and one over here and then same thing up there there yes yes same up there all the way up to the top right you could otherwise look ah my eyes i'll be back this is a really dull drill bit brian oh wow that's really dammit okay i drilled one hole wow okay just oh you i will need the tallest ladder because yes i have the shortest legs look you don't get to tease me about it when i'm already owning it that's the rules oh dog i'm fine you think we don't have a lot of clearance to work with yeah thank you yeah who's the assistant now this bit is zero out of ten better i actually wonder if we have sharper uh spade bits how's um 5 8 sound fine okay now what now we pull wire now we pull wire hell yeah these are going to come across yep and get stapled but you see there's blocking so we have to go above the blocking oh you haven't showed your innovative little uh spool holder here brilliant what what i mean it works i don't think you're supposed to stand on that one so then i just go over this doodad yeah and pull enough that it doesn't fall yeah as expected this is truly very tedious yup i'm having fun so far though that's good i'm electrician it's like adulting but with electricity and you want to leave a fair bit in the box yeah like how much like that yep that's fine and now we staple okay this looks more like a staple remover than a stapler you're just gonna whack it with it aren't you yeah that's stupid why don't you use a hammer for that because i can do many things yeah the thing is that not everyone's arms are that big i'm pretty sure your forearms are bigger than my biceps and then you want to staple what like every three or four feet or like shut up it's a lot easier yeah shut up so there's a little bit of wiggle and that's okay yeah i could really use a hammer well now i thought it stapled all the way up you need to staple it all the way across oh all right i'm getting a hammer i figured out why you gave me pliers you don't have a hammer what kind of man doesn't have a hammer in his tool kit i'm pretty sure they take away your man card if you don't have a hammer how's that hammer working for you like this better than the pliers would be i'll tell you that much so then what i just need to put some holes here here here and here and here yep we're actually going to need a few holes through that top plate so i actually just put like a bunch of holes in it yeah pretty much oh that's less good oh man okay i need to cover that i blame jake for those wondering this is where six workstations one cpu ended up it's folding right now but uh we're gonna have to put that on pause aren't you not supposed to do that linus do what reach way off a ladder what's more dangerous what i don't know what you're talking about okay so is that fine yes you hesitated okay so what i do now you could drag cat6 over for that data jack oh my god shouldn't i have done that at the same time uh yes and no because it still needs to all be stapled separately right but all the ladder movements i suggested pulling it earlier oh brian [Laughter] you're supposed to save me from myself here it's far more entertaining not so let's see if this is going to work here so is there anything else i could be doing while i move this ladder here like jake has marked x's on the floor below where all the boxes go okay how do i mount an octagon box enter the octagon same way that we want the other box is this an octagon box yes it is that's because this is clearly a circle with two flattened sides i got this don't worry about it okay don't fall no i'm not gonna fall ow and that's why you don't leave things on the top of a ladder speaking of dropping there's also a certain expected minimum level of common sense as well is there is there on the job site brian is there oh i didn't do the octagon box what i didn't do the optical i'll do it while i'm stapling i'll leave it here are there any particular rules with respect to staples for data keep the distance about the same for neatness more than anything the only real major things are you can't run it through the same hole as a power lead because they're differing voltages okay and the other thing too being data yeah you don't want ac power anywhere near it yeah you get interference makes sense that's why we're running down separate studs for these i guess like i would straight up not be able to drive these in with that stupid pair of pliers so i've got two ethernet runs done now one for the access point that's going to be up in the ceiling so it is starting to come together keyword being starting because there is a lot of work to do still here in canada this is the bond it's either bare or it's green there's actually a screw at the back of the enclosure so we can take that and wrap it around that screw snug it down and now this is bonded oh so all the europeans were concerned that we just don't care about safety basically that nothing was earthed yeah yeah here in canada we have lots of earth probably more than you unless you're in russia do you want to actually install the plug let's find out if i know how to do this so there's your strippers yep drivers are on the floor i didn't know you were bringing strippers to this whole uh party here so i should probably oh no hold on i know i know i know i know i'm gonna do the i'm gonna do the um fine tell me i make a point of not using the quick connect fine i'll use the other one then the reason being i've actually seen those connections melted and the insulation on the wire melted a ways back all right so we're gonna do our green one yeah so that's our earth wire bond yeah wow i suck at this how i poked myself who knew installing a plug would be so painful whoa one outlet done what about the cover plate we'll do that later see this is teenagers today they come in to like help and literally sit on the floor and also rather than clear eight things off of a chair they sit on the floor i mean how do these how are these people gonna find employment all right let's terminate some ethernet i've only done this once other than that every single other time i've terminated to a jack for these though yes you don't have to remember oh no it's right on there that's a cool stripper so then check this out we've got this like gigantor separator on the inside and how much do you untwist them with terminations yeah for the specification you're actually only supposed to have about a half inch of wire untwisted total really yes that's it that's it okay i did not know that it was so little so you literally want to keep these yeah i guess it's not twisted pairs you untwist the whole damage exactly so i just hold it there just kind of bend and untwist it to that point yeah then it's twisted literally right to where you're gonna punch it down beauty so that's it this is terminated and then oh okay there's a little doodad that goes on and that's it beautiful right now just imagine the entire place with all of the wiring done so we fast forwarded a little bit and a lot has actually changed so brian has finished up the vast majority of the wiring now including electrical ethernet uh speaker wiring so we could go surround sound in here in the future if we wanted to we'll see um and we've actually got some painting done so the rafters are now black that's a black stain it's going to look homey it's going to look cozy um all that's left now is to make sure that any of this actually works so we need a patch cord uh conveniently there's one on the floor sitting right there yeah that'll do it uh wait are we gonna need another switch oh balls are these labeled labeled one is the arcade two i think is the counter three is the far corner why don't we go try and we still have some left that one is damaged halfway through oh oh wow that's very damaged look at that okay do you want to go try uh number four and then i'm gonna go double check in the server room that we actually are plugged into uh this well try swapping it back to four you're into four oh hey hey all right let's see some internet browsage there it is oh i'm not allowed to watch that video no okay i have to leave now but uh let's make sure power works so four is the tv yeah so five will be the wireless access point got it so if you hear the beeping the plugs over there are on now oh oh nice so that's it we've got power we've got ethernet and we've got well the conclusion of this video freshbooks is the small business accounting software that's custom built for how you want to work so whether you're a small business owner or freelancer it's a simple way to be more productive more organized and perhaps most importantly to get paid faster you can create and send professional looking invoices in less than 30 seconds you can set up online payments with just a couple of clicks to get paid up to four days faster and they've even got a feature that shows when your client has seen your invoice to put an end to the back and forth oh did you did you send it sorry i i'm sorry i haven't paid it yet i didn't actually get that email whatever no 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Channel: Linus Tech Tips

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Keywords: electrical, wiring, lan, gaming, center, linus, media, group, headquarters, lounge, employee

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Length: 17min 28sec (1048 seconds)

Published: Mon Dec 24 2018