/diy/ - Do It Yourself

[Anonymous No.2034983]

ELECTRICIAN FRENS, give me a pointer....

Which one goes where?

[Anonymous No.2034992]

>>2034983
Touch tounge to black and white, if you feel something put black on left

[Anonymous No.2034994]

[Anonymous No.2034995]

Green on bottom. White on silver screw black on gold screw

[Anonymous No.2035000]

>>2034994

Thanks fren.

Just wondering, how do I know which is which for next time?

Green is always ground... but what about the other two?

[Anonymous No.2035004]

>>2035000

Just google that shit. Maybe someone can chime in with some cool way to remember it. Wide slot in an outlet is the neutral and the narrow one is the hot.

[Anonymous No.2035007]

Why the FUCK do people think this board is a google search? Stop shitting up the board with your useless fucking threads.

[Anonymous No.2035012]

I have a retarded question myself.
I am installing my own lights in a sunken ceiling.
Im just creating a frame that looks like a beam with lights in the circular spots. 3 per frame.
I found wire from a vaccine cleaner in the trash to use to connect.

My question is how do I run the wires from left to right and will my idea work with the lights I got.

[Anonymous No.2035015]

Where the lights would be placed. Enough for the wire to go through.

[Anonymous No.2035016]

Lights I got.

[Anonymous No.2035017]

>>2035012
*vaccume

[Anonymous No.2035030]

Like this right? But I end on the last light right?
Also im not sure if the power will supply to all 6 lights. Am I in the wrong?

[Anonymous No.2035044]

>>2035012

Get a roll of 14 ga romex you monkey

[Anonymous No.2035052]

>>2035044
This wouldn't do? I went dumpster diving for no reason? I thought this was fugin DIY.

[Anonymous No.2035064]

>>2035004
Remember it this way:
Neutral starts with N.
Nigger starts with N.
Niggers have a big dick. The bigger slot is Neutral.

That's right. Think of nigger dicks...

[Anonymous No.2035075]

>>2035000
There are 3 different colored screws on those (brass/gold, silver and green). For 15 and 20 amp plug ends (in the US), remember that it goes black to brass and white to silver. I've been muttering that mantra to myself for the past 20 years and it hasn't let me down

[Anonymous No.2035078]

White bright, black bronze, green ground

[Anonymous No.2035079]

>>2035064

Ahh your wife's method...

Thanks for sharing!

[Anonymous No.2035086]

>>2035079
Thank you for believing I am married.

[Anonymous No.2035088]

>>2035075
niggers like gold, white people like silver

[Anonymous No.2035097]

>>2034995
This.

[Anonymous No.2035098]

>>2035075
>>2035078
>>2035088
I always just thought brass corrodes black.

[Anonymous No.2035103]

>>2035012
Is that a wabbit?

[Anonymous No.2035105]

>>2035064
Always include niggers. Like the resistor color code. Black Bastards Rape Our Young Girls But Violet Gives Willingly.

[Anonymous No.2035110]

>>2035052
I mean it would probably work but this shit looks ghetto and it will catch your house on fire

[Anonymous No.2035117]

>>2035103
Yep.
Thought you were giving me an electrical term for a bit there that I had never heard of.

[Anonymous No.2035120]

>>2035110
Damn it. Thanks anon. Ill avoid that.

[Anonymous No.2036020]

>>2035064
nigger dicks are black anon

[Anonymous No.2036022]

>>2035052
>>2035120
what matters is how thick the wire is. does it say 12ga or 12 something on the side or can you show the copper? melting happens with small wire, large breaker and large draw. if they're LED bulbs in the cans you won't hurt anything, but you don't know 10 years down the road some nostalgic asshat might screw in incandescent bulbs.

[Anonymous No.2036042]

>>2034983

>4chan, you're new go to for life threatening installations

[Anonymous No.2036046]

>>2036042
there are only six possible combinations before combining wires right? OP should probably just try them all to see what happens.

[Anonymous No.2036260]

>>2034983
>black, white, green
I thought Brown, Blue, Green was the international standard on appliances? At least that is what I was told in electrical trade school.

[Anonymous No.2036266]

>>2036260
It's green-yellow not green.

[Anonymous No.2036318]

Nigger gets gold, white gets silver. Green/bare copper to ground. How I remember it

[Anonymous No.2036321]

>>2036318
>>>/wsg/3803514

[Anonymous No.2036835]

>>2035004
black to brass always works

[Anonymous No.2036910]

>>2035012
I don't fully understand your question, but I hope this helps you understand what you're looking at doing. The cord you salvaged is type SO cord, which may or may not be the correct gauge you'll want. As you are splicing them to existing romex, which uses solid 14 or 12 gauge wire, I would suggest finding or buying romex to finish this project. Romex is slightly better protected (sheathed) which is good here since you're doing some ghetto rigging (open air splicing out of a box), and solid wire is much easier to splice to solid wire. As you seem new to this, use a pair of pliers and mechanically twist the exposed wire ends you're slicing together before twisting the wire nut on, and tug each wire coming out of the nut to ensure it has a good connection.You may want to use a few big blue wire nuts at the junction point where a light, switch leg, and other fixture feed meet. Do not use wagos. Also, you don't need to have the sheathing ripped off of the wire between lights.
As long as you don't tie a black to a white wire, the colors in the picture don't matter. If you just leave longer whips of wire hanging out of your wood holes, you can get to sheathing your box in the oak ply and having it all prettied up before throwing in the lights. Leave the wires a foot longer than you think you'll need, and stuff it up in there after you trim out the lights. Don't forget to tie all grounds together as well (not included in pic).

[Anonymous No.2036937]

>>2035004
This here. There's some notion that in kid logic, if they tried to match the shape (of say a knife) to a slot, they'd pick the wider one, so that should be the neutral.

Reality is not necessarily so forgiving, but there you go.

[Anonymous No.2037109]

>>2035000
Black peoples like gold
Whites people like silver
Check ‘em.

[Anonymous No.2037357]

>>2036937
>kek

[Anonymous No.2037529]

>>2034983
a thread died because OP can't google.

not that one would need to google to wire a plug.

[Anonymous No.2037763]

>>2034983
always remember GREEN GROUND, HOT (black) to gold. sadly I remember it by black lads having gold grills in their mouths lol. COMMON/NEUTRAL (white) close to silver

[Anonymous No.2037764]

>>2037763
or black/gold i think about old (black gold)

[Anonymous No.2037766]

>>2037764
im retarded i said common/neutral like they are the same thing its not common is hot

[Anonymous No.2037767]

>>2036020
Niggers always talk about having a big dick (neutral).
But everyone knows black dicks are small (hot).
Boom.

[Anonymous No.2038956]

>>2034983
Green to ground(grassy ground).
Silver is "Whiter" than gold.
That leaves black to gold.

[Anonymous No.2038962]

>>2034983
what sort of strange colours and plug is that

[Anonymous No.2038967]

>>2038962
Looks like a dryer plug he's wiring up to backfeed his panel w a generator.

[Anonymous No.2038980]

>>2034983
I always test for phase, neutral and ground with a meter and a resistor. you never know at the end side of an installation if the previous worker did not mess it all up because he had no experience as an electrician. at least in europe I've seen a lot of times all cables mixed up, phase on the blue one and neutral on the brown...

The test with a meter is simple. test the voltage on 2 of 3 cables.
When 0V you know the cables you have in hand are neutral and ground, and the cable left alone is the phase.
Now you have to check what cable is neutral and what is cable is ground (believe me, i ve seen grounding cables using non standard green/yellow, and that happens a lot on old installations)

Now to id neutral/ground it helps if you have an RCD. (residual current device/breaker)

if your meter is shitty and has low impedance, you may trip the RCD by testing the phase and ground. If that happens the cable that is not phase is ground.
If you have an RCD and your meter did not trip it in any of the measurements to ID the neutral from ground, then use a 4.7kOhms 1/2 or 1W resistor and carefully wire it between phase and one of the two cables to ID.
When the RCD trips, the non phase cable is ground, the other neutral.

I use a 4.7 kOmhs because it will allow more then 35mA of current to flow to ground, sufficient to trip the RCD. (if you have a 35mA RCD) Older RCDs go up to 500mA, better have a beefy resistor in that case)

[Anonymous No.2039003]

>>2038980
One more thing. once the cable are ID and if they do not follow the color code, i add a ring of corresponding color electrician adhesive tape around them, just to make sure the ones that will work on the outlet understand that there was a mix-up.

[Anonymous No.2039037]

>>2034983
they don't into these screw terminals like that because you don't do that with fine-wire cable. the copper will flatten out over time and become thinner and thinner until it get's out and your plug catches fire. you should crimp wire-end sleeves onto the wire-ends.

[Anonymous No.2039077]

>>2038967

That is a standard 110v plug...

[Anonymous No.2039355]

>>2034983
one in pink
one in stink
one for tickler

[Anonymous No.2040225]

>>2036910
I installed before you commented. Had some help from neighbors. One almost had me use his wagos connectors but I didn't because I did not use solid wire and when I pulled it, it would slip out.
This is my test picture.

[Anonymous No.2040230]

>>2040225
Finish

[Anonymous No.2041366]

>>2034983
hot to gold
neutral to silver
ground to green

[Anonymous No.2041449]

>>2035000
Stick your voltmeter in an outlet and measure this shit for yourself you lasy fuck

[Anonymous No.2041479]

>>2035000
Doesn't matter at all. Just green to the round one, which likely has a green screw on it to help ya out.

[Anonymous No.2042135]

>>2040230
not bad, but you missed a great opportunity to add mood lighting to the sides.