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Why Does A Specific Wall Outlet Keep Tripping The Breaker?

September 19, 2022September 19, 2022 by Charlie D Paige
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If you have a specific outlet in your house that appears to keep tripping your breaker, it can be incredibly frustrating. All you want to do is use your electronic devices, and if there is an outlet preventing you from doing so, you may be at your wit’s end. Fortunately, this is not necessarily something … Read more

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Outlets With Only 2 Wires (Prongs) Total: Is This Safe?

September 19, 2022July 27, 2022 by Charlie D Paige
GFI outlet with a reset button

If you have purchased an older home, you may look around and notice that a lot of your outlets only have two prongs in them. A lot of people are very used to the outlets they have in their homes, so you may not even realize that your outlets only have two prongs until you … Read more

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Should I Pigtail My Outlets? (Are There Better Alternatives?)

September 19, 2022November 25, 2021 by Charlie D Paige
Various wires some connected with wire nuts inside a wall outlet

Maybe in your electrical DIY projects, you have come across a situation where you find a bunch of wires have been twisted together and connected to one wire. If you have, this is a pigtail. Don’t worry, they won’t start squealing, and nor will the smell of sizzling bacon start coming from your outlet, but … Read more

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Why Backstabbed Outlets Are Bad (Are They Safe Or Unsafe?!)

September 19, 2022October 27, 2021 by Charlie D Paige
An electrician working on an outlet

You may have heard the term ‘backstabbed’ used when referring to an electrical outlet, but please don’t think someone is trying to be funny or that the wires had a fight and went behind each other’s back to betray the other, it’s not that kind of back-stabbing. Backstabbing wires in an electrical outlet is serious … Read more

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Why Your Outlet Has 2 Black And 2 White Wires (And What To Do About It!)

September 19, 2022October 7, 2021 by Charlie D Paige
An outlet with two black wires and two white wires

Sometimes you open an outlet and it has more wires connected on the inside than you thought it would. In many cases you will find two black wires and two white wires, but sometimes you will find four or five or even more than six! So, why are there two black and two white wires … Read more

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