INSANELY COOL NEW CAR CHARGER INSTALLATION - Electrician Life

um today's episode we're going to be talking about my 14 chins that looks absolutely stunning not something that i'm going to cry about or write home to my mother about i feel like the bad guy from jurassic park who ate all the snickers that boy right there oh man that is seriously good cake it's massive i could be an afro cone [Music] hi guys welcome back to another episode of arts and electrics where i'm back from holiday and i'm with luke again where we've got a pretty straightforward install today customers asked for a hypervault to be fitted just here um but there's no space on their garage board so got to upgrade the garage board make that a little bit bigger and this is quite an interesting scenario if the cable coming out here isn't big enough to run the full load of the charger i don't think so we have to put some load limiting on it and the hyper 4 actually has load limiting built inside of it what a lot of the chargers do but i'll show you how to do that and yeah we'll just crack on i've got to hand it to hypervolt that looks absolutely stunning that is like i think if i was to have a car charger when i finally get that um stunking great big pay rise i'm gonna get an ev and that is gonna be the car charger oh it matches the downpipe fair play to him i i do think still that all the different chargers have different benefits like i'm still a fan of the anderson and still fan of the zappy but i think in terms of well i don't know enough about the internals tech and programming and the future proof plans that hypervolt have got a bit in terms of aesthetics at the minute i think hypervolt we've got the got the crown with this i guess actually you could say the anderson if you want it like if you're if you're after the wooden look or or something like that but that is very pretty right luke if you want to get that charger mounted maybe don't place the holster just yet no yeah you decide but yeah we'll just put it a nice distance below that maybe at the top of it to that brick there so we're missing that light yeah have you got your hypervolt bracket i have yeah if you open the side door yeah sds draw it's underneath the sds drill so i've not actually seen inside this board yet but i've seen the job spec on tradify i like that yes it's quite a small um cable coming in but i reckon you might be able to get the full 32 amps on it to be fair um i'll go check what size breaker it's on something i'll show you here which i'm not i can't say i'm a huge fan of it when people do this um when they strip when you strip back an swa cable paint marker off topic but i love it i feel so empowered when i have this paint mark i literally just want to paint absolutely everything come up close maximus can you see that there right i don't like it when you strip back the inner sheath of an swa that far really you want it to come in at least a centimeter or two into the board because this now could start to chafe on that if you put some sort of female and female bush or something like that on the threads to protect it it's probably not as bad but just having the sharp edge of the thread against the inner cores i find a bit rough um i usually like to bring them in a centimeter or two and even put a cable tie around it to prevent that splitting open but not something i'm going to cry about or write home to my mother about but it is obviously an observation um that i thought i'd share with you as a tip when you're making off swa cables right i'm going to go inside the house i was just talking to these boys about intermittent fasting and these different things like fortunately now i don't really well it sounds really arrogant i don't struggle with weight i'm not exactly perfectly in shape but i don't really have to think about it um and they're like oh i bet you never have that's not true i i just found a couple of pictures from my apprentice portfolio um of little chunky monkey corey look at that but the one thing i can say is he was definitely happy with he he had like who ate all the snickers that boy right there and i've got more they get they get worse oh my god so yeah i do know a thing or two about fasting mechs but all i do now is just i'm always fidgeting i'm always moving that's why you lose weight i think i think i'm so like if i've got a day off i'll never just sit there i'll always end up building something or doing something or going somewhere like i can't sit still so i think that's why i probably can eat more yeah i just thought you might appreciate those little fatty pictures hopefully they get made into a meme somewhere garage i see so it's on a taipei rcd already um ideally i want to take that garage off of the rcd i don't think that was in our spec of works but it's not really much drama for me to do so i might just do it because otherwise we won't get selectivity because we'll have two 30 milliamp um instantaneous taipei rcds oh that's a lovely continuing fair play again no company name guys if you're doing beautiful work don't be so humble about it leave a sticker or something and i will shout you out yeah we'll do it we'll move this over um i might even see if i can stick that on a 40 as well what i'm going to do is i'm going to take that out shift this all along one cut the bus bar off um and stick another bit of bus bar across there so that it's in a non-rcd way because the thing is it's protected anyways by a armored cable so one thing i will point out right i've said this before in an episode and i'll say it again it's so controversial um but you notice he hasn't used any grommet strip on the entries personally i always do use upfront strip especially while especially on the tails because you can see there it has bitten through a tiny bit on the um on the outer insulation of the mains tails however i do still believe although i won't do it i do still believe that if you've properly filed your metal filed it so much that you're happy to lick it um then really there shouldn't be too much of an issue um having cables or whatever um rest against it especially if they're not going tight around the corner or anything like that but with mains tails i do think it's it's a bit risky because let's face it they're always going to be under pressure on there they're always bending and pushing in tight like they are there so i can't get i can't give the board 10 out of 10 but it'll get a solid seven yeah see just along there it needs to be grommet strip along there so you can see a little bit where the outer insulation is worn away on the on the mains tails there one other thing as well as you notice you've got the twin earth is stripped outside of the in the enclosure which i'm not a fan of so that does drop in another point as well these are from the interview aren't they no no i didn't get to keep that didn't you no oh yeah that was my bad jordan suggested that everyone keep this stuff up and i was like ourselves that's like they're gonna come in handy i wouldn't have to buy my own client screwdrivers oh mate we would have got you client screwdrivers because they had four sets there i was like i'll keep him for reuben you know and i can't believe i talked him into being stingy that's my bad he was actually being quite generous i feel like the bad guy from jurassic park [Music] [Music] i have got one other small complaint about the way the board's been done and that is the cables it's so short although it looks really pretty it's like when people cram tons of zip ties into board into a board without any slack it looks lovely until you have to move or change something um if i do a board like this well you've seen me do probably 10 000 consumer units on the channel i will put a load of slack underneath and bring it in and i'll lose slack up there as well before i bring it in so that although it looks like that you can actually pull another 2 300 ml of cable out for if there's ever a future board change but say like this all i want to do is move it to over there and i just cannot get enough um enough slack on it which is really a shame because i don't want to extend it and also i don't want it to look super ugly but at the end of the day safety over aesthetics [Music] um i would i don't think you can drill on that really because they just pop out they're quite nice yes just drill next to it and we'll set 25 mil that is 20ml 30ml and then another 20 probably a 25 for this [Music] not a fan of your footage from the other day mate making me look eight months pregnant [Music] we've got wicked customers i've got to say god let's try this [Music] oh man that is seriously good cake hats off to the chef compliments the chef when i bake its condolences to the chef all right let's go this is the thumbnail right here training works when corey eats cake wait if i wasn't eating this cake and i did it or would you be getting any better no exactly well there we go then hey is there rose petals on this shut up there's little bits of flower on there like f-l-o-w-e-r not flower you can't you don't want to get those two mixed up on your wife's site you never buy any flour you don't even know what my favorite flour is yeah i don't sell phrasing such a i look like a 17 year old me again stop being such a baby right so i've just i've took the old board off and put the new one on and fixed in i've got this power coming in from the house so i've got this this from the car charger so i'm just going to neatly clip it around here along this level bring it up through the bottom here and start terminating into the board right so this is actually luke's first ever consume unit so i've completely taken a backseat from i've done everything that i can do now so we just focus on helping him get his one done and uh answer any questions he's got and stuff but i'm pretty confident he'll be fine with it that was the earth so i can just go straight up yeah these two can go along that can just go in there that's going to go in your neutral bar yep yeah it will go in to the corresponding terminal so if you've got the main earth in there and then that that circuit one so yeah that would be a second one and obviously you've got 16 that's the sockets yeah yeah so i got number two the lighting on number four so the two five in this in the 16 and one five and six but what you want to do to make it easier for people working in the future keep the camera lose slack yeah keep so like get a bit of slack down there yeah get a bit slack up there shove it right in yeah like that yeah and then loop it round so although it still looks nice and neat yeah you've actually got like imagine if you're changing the board yeah you've got all of that to play with now cool first of all mm-hmm it's got some coming down some sets try and just straight with the cables you could just straighten them up with your fingers yeah so it just always looks neater when you've got nice straight cables yeah so what you can even do is pop them out and you want to do it in a way that you're not bending them because you don't want to snap the solid core inside i'll just straighten them out spin out any twists and kinks you know just give it a little rub yeah get really nice and straight and neat so you can see straight away that looks like a new cable now and then i'll push it up out the way yeah again keeping all the slack and then just pop it in see straight away it's like a different cable yeah um nice job doubling it over as well if that was you and for this one it's a bit bigger so actually all right for these um put your finger in there you can get a bit of conduit yeah if you want a pvc conduit just let's just come around take this one take this one out for now but the more you do the more you won't think about dressing them it just sort of happens yeah but get your finger in there so they're all the same so they're all the same height and i'll just bend them back around my finger like that yeah then as well if someone puts an rcbi or something a bit taller in there in future it's not going to be conflicting and hitting it i think a straight cable is a nice neat cable and you've still got all the same length it's just folded up there yeah out the way so you see already that looks a bit bit neater yeah a little tip as well if i want to straighten these out i'll get my long nose pliers you can put a bit of tape or something kind of but i'm not really going to go too hard on these yeah and just give them a little squeeze like that you see that straight away straightens them out with very little effort they're now straighter so now when you look back at it now when you look back at it all of these are the same height really i'd like that to sweep down at the same level as well as that all of these at the same height if you really wanted it to be extra as well i don't have colors crossing i have all my colors out the way separate so i want to see a green and yellow going behind the browns tuck that back i'd probably swap that for heat shrink so that's a bit neater having that cut edge going along there i mean we're not working in michelle roo's kitchen it doesn't really have to get too carried away but these little tips literally will take you 30 seconds as you're doing it just as i'm putting a cable in wrap it around measure it chop it strip it put it in next one wrap it around my finger measure it chop it strip it and you see already it's looking just a little bit neater isn't it something i like doing as well if i'm doing a board car charge or whatever i'll just get the table out and you can have all your mess and stuff on there and it just means you're not bending over all the time you see brick layers doing it building up a little thing to work off of i think i don't know why we don't do the same because at the end of the day over the course of a whole career all that bending over you just end up with a bad back um so i was like having that just to work from so that is our tool of the day today um find a link for that in the description below do you think you could do it better what for this bit yeah uh [Music] it's not bad it's not bad at all like it's completely side offerable yeah remove the heat shrink and stuff okay now it's just i'll grab something for you yeah nice i've never no one else does that sort of thing well shall see that's why we're the man i don't find it anyone under the bus so with these extra cores i know usually it's a fantastic idea to keep them but we've got so much slack if you really needed the extra cores we'll just strip it back a bit more so i'll just chump them off slide this heat shrink on probably not even that much really the thing is with stuff like this is true it's not really necessary but being a premium service especially you've got to justify you've got to give something tangible to show why we're worth the extra money basically if there is a way of doing something better like whether or not you figure it out or even a comment or something says why didn't you do it that way i usually go good point why didn't i do it that way because if you can stand back from a job at the end of it and say oh there's a way i could have done that better the next time do it better basically that's the only way you're gonna stay top mustard top gravy yeah this one keep pushing it that way and as i'm pushing it i'm shrinking it down really we need to just buy cordless heat guns i need to get on that that's massive that could be an afro car in there i want to reverse set the record straight i got a lot of messages on instagram telling me to check out the new thomas nagy video and to be honest as you might have guessed by now my concentration outside of work is no good like to sit down and watch more videos of people working doing what i've already done all day is not something that appeals to me too much when i'm watching youtube it's usually moronic videos of people blowing stuff up or doing stupid things or spearfishing or whatever so i'm not a massive electrical youtube watcher probably because i do it all the time as my actual day job but i do however have massive respect for all of the youtubers that do it well for a start mr b undie sending me this right that's pretty amazing of him that's probably like a year's salary living up that way probably could buy a house or two with you know what that bag's worth where he lives so i really appreciated that but um i just wanted to to say tom if you are watching this i doubt you are but if you are wait no one's got a knife for your back if well at least i i i can't speak for everybody but i'm pretty confident the main sort of youtube electricians you know chris cjr nick jordan myself lee like they're all absolutely lovely guys every single one of them if you actually put the time into getting to know us and them they're lovely like i've never heard anyone of them say anything bad about any of the others all of them are really genuine top blokes and it's not a competition either like you mentioned about that i completely agree it's not a competition everyone's in it in their with their different audience their different parts to play i've learned something from all of them um and like all of them are doing good things for the industry like nick with his talks on mental health and that kind of thing chris doing his running and everything like for charity which by the way i'm totally going to try and get all of the artisan bodies on let's do a 10k with him um so i think maybe the issue there again i can't speak without knowing the full facts but i agree paul meenan total legend as all of the e5 guys all of the efix guys all of them because ultimately their motive is to teach people and to help people and to improve an industry which has been going down the route of getting dangerous but everyone's making it a bit safer sure i'm sure everyone's profiting along the way but realistically if he was to put the amount of hours you put into youtube editing etc into just running a business you're probably not really going to be far different so there is a positive outcome from all of this youtube bajango i look forward to watching nathan try to caption pochango however he wants to spell it so maybe the only issue here is mindset let's be positive look for the good in everyone and especially the people that you think might wish you bad um if someone genuinely does wish you bad the chances are it's probably their issue they're probably not very happy in their life so just give them sympathy and crack on and be happy and do good electrical work right that's my record over and that's set the thing straight and if you want to go out for a pint we'll go out for a pint and we can talk about it more and i'll bring the company card we're gonna link out this side yep he's not gonna worry about parallel paths because it's really really not something i'm going to lose sleep about in this situation at college did you have the um individual testers in the boxes the robins no he's the big mega testers yeah so what i learned with on some sites as well is we had individual testers so you had your low-end resistance meter you had your installations yesterday you had your rcd tester your loop impedance test etc and each person would be even sometimes given a different tester be like right you go do this test you go do that test this is all of those different test machines put into one box the olden days installation resistance you have to wind up and seriously oh you know no i'm serious you have to wind it up and that would create enough current for you to do your test with yeah um like look capacitor bank or whatever in there but nowadays it's all on there so when you see these just see them as separate testers right so you've got you which is obviously voltage you know you think you owe you val etc iso installation resistance rlo that's low resistance ohm meter that's for r1 plus r2 etc rcd loop impedance and don't really worry about these ones just yet these earth rods and things which we're not dealing with right now so in this situation you want to start with your installation your r1 plus r2 so you're going to go on our low and the first thing you want to do if you remember is know your leads yeah so just get rid of this just tuck that in there i've lost the green one it's gonna say you're all different these combined yeah just touch those two together hold them really tight you want it on the solid part of the clip in fact we'll know this out with it because it'll be really really belting braces touch that against there and then you see there that's a little symbol for calibrate so touch that i feel like i've got korean fried chicken breath now can't test it um there you go so now it's removed point two four off the reading so now that's completely null so you're not measuring your leads so i'm gonna go in here yep i'm gonna connect onto the earth bar i'll tell you what just because you're being taught i will take out the earth bar really i'll be completely honest i really don't care if it's connected into the file people talk about parallel paths and things but in the real world if if that's ever going to make a difference then shoot me down so obviously you've only got one clip corey can i just hold that onto the end of this you can but don't get in the habit of it because if you are if you get into the habit of touching that end yep and then you just get into the habit of that without thinking one day you're gonna be doing another test like installation resistance or zs and touching and get a belt off it yeah from experience so just get into the habit of using these probes 0.02 0.02 so then what we'll do as well what would you expect the resistance between to be the same as yeah for life yeah because they're the same size so i'll swap that over yep so if there's lots of connections there you've just proven that there's no connections no issues so now you've done that yep um everything's switched off you can do some installation resistance now you've confirmed that everything's connected the right way around yeah and that there's no breaks in the cable you can do installation resistance so we're going to test we can test at 500 volts that would be the standard for this let's start at 250. start at 230 just in case that was connected yeah you'll see and you've not broken it yep so um go back i'll just connect it on for you just because i'm standing here yeah so i'm going to test first of all between i have an earth what reading you're expecting too far no not voltage how much resistance greater than 200 is correct so what would be the minimum read and resistance reading that you'd deem acceptable by regs great two mega ohms two mega grams yeah yeah realistically if it's two mega grams you've got you've got an issue yeah but on a new install but now you've got a 250 you've confirmed there's definitely no loads connected you can up it yeah but we won't bother showing that so my job at the minute part of it is to get guys like luke rubin different people who are already good electricians basically they've got tons of potential and then get them to that next level point where they can go out and do jobs to really good quality on their own so we figured soon as we were training it makes sense to film it because loads of people on this exactly the same journey as luke might as well put it on the internet because it might be useful to someone watching so we've gone through the other tests the next test we want to do is zs so our earth loop impedance but we're going to achieve that by calculation it's made up of two parts basically so if this is your install right you've got your you've got your charger here you've got your consumer unit i here 14 years in art school for this my moment i've been waiting for my whole entire life i've drawn that way not big enough so call this earth fault loop impedance you've got your load over here consume unit here or distribution board coming in from over here let's just draw a supply transformer yeah let's just for ease of ease sake split it in half and say it's a tt system right so if we draw the circuit in here coming out of our mcb going over we're not worried about the neutral in this situation into our load okay and let's say that this has got a metal chassis on it and this is earthed okay so this is connected onto the the metal chassis here goes through to go through to the consumer unit and then out of the consumer unit into our main earthing terminal and it's going to come we'll just label that m-e-t main earthing terminal and it's going to come out of that into an earth rod in the ground it's a really really long earth rod draw some ground here some nice grass maybe even a flower okay so that's in the ground urethra and that's connected up so that would be a watt system tt so that's a tt system all right so in under normal working circumstance if this conductor is not live there's nothing going down there you've got your supply coming in overhead let's just say it's coming straight in through your fuses etc into your main switch out the main switch into mcb off to the load and back but oh no there's a fault this now has become live you want to make sure that this is extremely low um resistance so that in the circumstance of a fault if you've got really really low resistance then you're gonna have and the voltage is set then you're gonna have really high current so you want that current coming down there to be as high as possible to operate this safety device as quickly as possible we have minimum standards that are set for us in our zs tables this has got a fault so now your electricity has got a loop a fault loop under a normal circumstance it's coming down the neutral back to the consume unit and then back against the other side of your transformer but in this circumstance of a fault it's coming down and it's making contact to the metalwork it's now coming down the live down the earth terminal back down again underground bump up again and round and that fault will keep going round and round and round does that make sense so you've got your earth fault loop so that's only a loop in the circumstance of a fault so we want to ensure that this resistance is as low as possible to get high current it's an inverse law it's a really low resistance really high current quick operation of circuit breaker to achieve your disconnection times your 0.4 but this is split up into two parts so you have your test here which we've done r1 plus r2 so that is measuring that so from there and back and then this section here is your ze so that's your external impedance so what when you disconnect the earth out of the main earthing terminal yep and do your zee yep you're measuring that loop yeah so zs equals um r1 plus r2 um plus your z so p some people do it the other way around yeah they won't do their r1 plus r2 you could you could get your ze take off your zs and then you get your r1 plus r2 but it's not good to do it that way yeah um it's always better because while r1 plus r2 confirms polarity it does a lot of other things that zs won't do in some situations everyone does it i'll be honest there's been times where i've done it but it's better not to the the by the book way is to measure your r1 plus r2 which really doesn't take long especially with these gadgets different things now there's really no excuse not to measure your ze achieve your zs make sense yep so we've already got our r1 plus r2 so now we need to get our ze yep which in this case would be zdb impedance back to the db because this is a sub main yep but it goes in the same part of the certificate yeah and um then we've got our zs measurement cool inside a coil i think they're changed now because they've got more electronics and things but you'd have you'd have you're live coming in i'm going to pretend i don't see it happy neutral coming in i don't know what you're talking about your eye pause or your eye or your iron egg right going off too and then this coil it's a coil all right yeah um maybe the cameraman laughing i didn't see it until you pointed it out and i still don't see it oh i can't remember the symbol for the join maybe look online [Music] [Music] [Applause] that's it that's the job done um hopefully it's been useful did you find that one i learned a lot this time or not i don't anyway but now you haven't taught me quite a few things today i didn't know good and it's one of them things once you've done one yeah they're all the same yeah there's not really that much to it is there not just more cables yeah so great hopefully that was helpful and uh there's been a ton of conversations today the views and opinions expressed in this episode are entirely not representative of our turn electrics i hope you've enjoyed it and i'll see on the next one [Music] you

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Id: lFI-GudAzZE

Length: 33min 19sec (1999 seconds)

Published: Wed Dec 22 2021