Replace A Charred / Burnt / Black / Melted Electrical Outlet | Why This Happens To A Receptacle

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[ralph]

Plug in a radio or something that makes noise. Will save you a lot of running back and forth.
'Work smart not hard.'

[Plumbing.repairs]

I just started my own youtube channel on home repair, plumbing, hvac and appliance repairs because i am constantly fixing things in my house, i will be the first to admit, i don't know the first thing about electric. I was about to have to pay hundreds that i dont have to get my outlet fixed, i followed your video to the tee, realized my problem, and just made my first electrical repair and saved hundreds. Thank you so much.

[kenwayne]

Very interesting and liked the nice slow step by step demonstration; Excellent!

[qball]

Do you have a death wish? Dude, you didn't know what you were doing, call an electrician. NO, that was not the hot side, that was the neutral side and had nothing to do with being near the ground. By the way, the neutral and ground are connected back at your panel. The problem was that you had an overloaded neutral wire and there are too many scenarios to parse out. It COULD have simply been an issue with arcing within the receptacle but it may have been several other issues. Secondly, electrical tape does not fix burnt insulation. Cut it off and pigtail if you wish, but use fresh wire. Signed, an electrician.

[Muonium]

Wait, he's.... he's not actually going to just reconnect the old charred and melted wires to the new socket, right? ....oh...oh my god, he is. 😂🤣
I legitimately don't know what's more hilarious, that someone recorded and then actually uploaded this video, or that people in the comments are earnestly asking for more similar advice and thanking him for showing them how to do the same thing to their own charred outlets. It's rare that a YouTube video will make me literally laugh out loud now, but this one ABSOLUTELY did. Remember, these people also vote. 👍🏻👍🏻

[TheSunking]

Tighten your neutral screws as well as the hot and ground screws.
I retighten when getting the outlet almost in position.
Loose neutral connections create heat when there is a heavier load demand. I’ve seen this from time to time when troubleshooting.

[Kat-onnm]

Changing the outlet one thing change breaker out too and consider in first resptical on sercurit put in a combination afci/GFI recptical in😃😃😚😁

[chriss]

Insurance company will use this video to get out of paying for fire damage. I would never re-use a wire with a melted jacket and electrical tape is not a safe alternative to that jacket. Hope you got it fixed correctly after posting this

[dimitriberozny]

The outlet was probably overloaded with a space heater or iron several times that had a defective male plug!!!

[tripledstickers]

The white wires are to go to the chrome looking screws and the black go to the copper screws

[routesixtysix]

How did this hold up over the past few years?

[d.s.steele]

You need to "pig tail" the outlet or suffer the same failure. See my post. Use white shrink wrap to protect the bare part on the common wire at the least. DON"T WRAP THE BARED WIRE IN ELECTRICAL TAP, BAD IDEA!!

[EricWaterTruck]

I’m somewhat concerned by all the caulking in the box, like wtf is going on in there? Then that wire being all loose in there was probably arcing causing the wire to get all burned up. Hope you got something over that

[cadentheis]

You should be much more concerned about your FPE electrical panel. That is a fire hazard and should be replaced asap.

[captain]

It's acceptable to put 15 amp outlets on 20 amp circuits by code. All 15 amp outlets are rated to carry 20 amps pass through. Also standard circuit breakers are only intended to trip on overload (too much current) or short circuit. They cannot detect or trip due to poor/glowing connections, which is what you had here on the neutral (not hot) wire. Newer AFCI breakers can trip due to arcing connections, but still can't detect glowing connections.

[electricboyo]

To me this video shows why a junction box with two cables should ***always*** be pigtailed rather than using the receptacle itself to interconnect between the two cables. One cable brings in power from the circuit breaker panel. The other cable feeds power on towards the “downstream” outlets. There might be several downstream outlets. A heavy load from one or more downstream outlets could overheat the connection at one of the 4 terminal screws on this receptacle if a screw isn’t tightened sufficiently. I think a wire nut (or Wago) and a pigtail is better than feeding the power directly through a receptacle. In this case using a pigtail might also permit cutting off the damaged section of the existing white wire.

[_luvvmaddiep]

cant you just turn off every breaker to be safe? if you dont have a curvuit tester?

[jameshicks]

If you are not sure of or don't know what you're doing do not post or make videos of this nature you can cause someone to get seriously hurt or worse

[lisasmith]

20 amps are less likely to get fried. In fact if you are using outlets for electric heat they are supposed to be 20 amp.

[angelotodaro]

The outlet is the least of your worries. You have a Federal Pacific service panel and breakers, all of which have a questionable reputation.