The WORST thing about being an electrician.... | Thomas Nagy
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Timecodes:
0:00 - Is the electric Van any good?
0:59 - Fulham job
12:00 - We are hiring again :)
13:07 - More on the job in Fulham
14:00 - Are the Chint fuseboards any good?
17:29 - Fitting Ring doorbell
18:46 - Fitting a forklift charger
25:32 - New alloys for the bucket truck
26:56 - Fitting 60+ data cables for a server
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You should look into buying a domain for like £5 a year and using a more professional email address than aol. You can have all emails from the old one forward to your new address, or even have the new domain forward to the aol inbox, but just gives that better public image (which I know you appreciate upholding)
Yep, had to look twice when I saw AOL.
must be his personal email he uses or one he uses for youtube - he has a website, a domain and a company email already
I totally AGREE.
I'm forever talking to tradesmen who have terrible email & web addresses.
I use TSOHost for ALL my emails & URL's. I have also switched to the newer .UK url's. So much simpler.
Owning you OWN url allows you to fully manage email addresses & spam!!
Also. They allow me to have personal emails for the whole family, plus all my motorbikes & cars & vans have their OWN email!!!!
If you need help - please get back to me...
#BWizz
@@kevinwhite2380 I'm a tradesman that still uses a Hotmail account 🙈😂
Wow not seen an AOL account in years. Always bugs me when people say their professional yet don't have a proper domain for their email address. Immediately looks armature
That radiator ended me 😂😂
I didn’t actually notice it when I first went into the room. It was only after moving the furniture did I see it and now I can’t unsee it 🤣
Reminded me of my college bedroom in 3rd year in 2003. I shared a window with the bathroom. Stud wall slap bang in the middle of it. 😂
They're called Belgian Solutions - Belgium is the home of DIY - facebook.com/Belgiansolutions
Offering the clerk lady that job that will 1) Help her financially 2) Encourage loyalty 3) Help her improve her knowledge/skills & 4) Get her started in an actual career.
Sounds like an awesome thing to do Tom!
I see what the manufacturers were going for with the ceiling...keeping it looking "neater" by not having the support grid showing...but at the cost of stability. FAIL!
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Audrey Hollander :)
This was along the lines of my train of thought. I’ll ask 👍
Well now I'm invested in the career prospects of a polish woman in London. Keep us updated tom!
You should definatley offer the polish girl the job🤙
@@thomasnagy Give her a 2 week trial. She gets two weeks holiday and extra 2 weeks pay. No risk to either party.
Offering that job to the person you saw is a brilliant thing to do. Glad there's more regular content.
I'd love to see the plumber face when he gets the call to remove the rad so they can decorate behind it
Will need two Plumbers! :D
That radiator in the wall is an excellent idea. 1 rad warms up 2 rooms
And the mice in the wall can have a nice winter of it too!
Energy saving.
Data cable is structured cable. It does matter how you position the cables.
The blue and green pairs are wound tighter than the brown and orange. This is critical in longer runs. Data reflection in the cable is important.
Also you can't just stick 90° bends, they have to be sweeping bends etc.
Over simplifying greatly here. But its not T&E!
T and e has bend radiuses as well
as Tom said, it may not be standard but if you 568A on both ends but put the terminator on upside on both ends too, the net result is exactly the same from a functionality. the blue/white and green white pairs will still be pins 4/5 and 3/6 respectively - it's just to colour codes will be reversed.
It depends. I understood what he was saying was that the order was the complete opposite, ie Bn where WhGn should be. This means that when you plug a patch cord in you will have impedance mismatch at the sockets due to the change in twist rates. If you test this for certification you might find it fails for return loss (have personally seen this occur). For gigabit ethernet it probably won't care, but if you are running something fancy that pushes the MHz to the limit of the class it might have problems. At the end of the day if the customer is asking for certification and you can't provide it, well, the apprentice will be busy re-terminating. Technically if you run T568A in the walls your patch cords (at least during the test) should match, vis-a-vis for B.
I was coming here to make somewhat the comment. As long as you get the right wires in the right spot they work is it to the standard no. Unless the pars are split ( combining a wire from from 2 colors) you shouldn't have issues but if they put it in backwards spliting the pairs there's no guarantee something else is it messed up. To some extent flipping the two wires of the same color shouldn't matter but then you're more likely to get flipped polarities. Thankfully a lot of the equipment these days is able to adjust to most situate most of the time except for that one time you need it to work.
As for why it's that way, There's also the possibility of they were tired, or they didn't know what they were doing, or somebody had to fix one end and couldn't access the other ( cough because it was most likely under a desk ).
Best electrician on TH-cam
Easily
What about Dave savery 🤔
Seriously impressed with a 41 minute video. Have you ever been approached by a TV production company?
This content is top tier
Appreciate pal!
100% agree 👍👏
Content is 👍🔥
They do make dummy dimmers that don't actually dim and just clicks on and off... Think varilight make them part of pro range I think
Make sure you tell your insurance company that you have changed the wheels, if not, then they can legally void your cover. You have to tell them the slightest change from standard now.
I can actually picture them doing that. Write off your van and they're like "you didn't tell us you put fluffy dice on the windscreen this is a completely different vehicle" 😅
Wow 45min of Thomas Nagy video. Is the world coming to a end?😀
Great video
Appreciate it man :)
I always go with “hire the person , train them to do the work “ hasn’t failed me yet !
Also if you hire very experienced people it's likely that all you will ever hear is "oh, at my old place we didn't do it like that, we did it like this" and finding that they're basically completely disregarding everything you say and doing things however they like... think of a 25 year old chef trying to tell 65 year old nana how to cook roast potatoes... "NOPE I've always done it like this, it's the best way and I'm not gonna change it now" lmao 😅
@@Camberwell86 It's a balance.. Sometimes you hired the person for the improvements they bring; but yes nothing worse then hearing "That's not how I did it" lol
I'd pop back to Selco, tell her you have a position open and pass your number on. If she takes the initiative to call and find out more you know she's keen.
Helping that lady at selco is a great idea !!
Use a 3 gang dimmer and replace the 3rd.dimmer with a dummy dimmer which is actually a switch. Varilite do various different ones and you swap the nob off the old dimmer onto the dummy so it all looks the same
RAF
was going to suggest the same
Scolmore MD9001
Was gonna say the same. Use a push on/off module. Deta also do them
As I watched Tom explain what he was wanting I was literally thinking this
Content. So much content. I feel like it’s Christmas morning!
Lock down is really fucking us up in Australia so your videos are still making me feel some one engaged with the trade!
Dual 1-gang back box, so you only have one hole in the wall if two plates are the only option.
What I've done on occasion if a dummy dimmer wasn't readily available, is pop the cover and bridge the A1 and A2 of the triac with a blob of solder. Sticker on the back saying "switch only". Sorted.
Damn you know Thomas is back and as his grown business wise so has his content laavvvv it keep on bringing them 🌡️
Another great video I've been watching you for a long time and lately I've been thinking about starting my own company the company I work for does not looks so secure as used to in the past. Your inspiration to electricians and I quite enjoy watching your videos be safe and have a great day
Its like watching a new season of top gear ( However Electricians in action! ) superb top notch content ! One day this will be on Netflix or Amazon prime lol
I appreciate that a lot mate!
@@thomasnagy Mate I really miss the intro… Please bring it back, doesn’t need to be in every video but every now and again just surprise us with the good old intro… I’m sure the other Original followers like myself would really love you for it !! But you know we’d still love you anyway mate but still, please add the good old intro every now and again 😜
It is good to help people and give them opportunities and they are more likely to stay. But that will only work for so long. You need to think of how that person can progress in your business and different ways they can add value and profit to your business. The only way to retain employees who work with passion and motivation is through making them invested in your business. This can be done in a number of ways but only you can choose the most appropriate for your business.
Work in the airport which have electric tugs that charge exactly the same as the forklift. The reason we where given for having the battery's exposed was to allow more ventilation for any gasses produced by the batteries while they are being charged.
That would make sense. Lead-acid batteries vent hydrogen when charging.
You can vent the batteries while charging with some louvres on the lid. Opening it risks the contact getting shorted.
I suspect there’s a little bit of it being that’s just how it’s always been done, especially since Hyster are a Yank company and Yank industial manufacturers consider innovation to be the work of the Devil. And maybe partly because a socket may get damaged. But I reckon the former is more likely!
Part of it is isolation, cant drive away if the batteries are physically disconnected from the motor
Absolutely crying at the ceiling tile rant, well done
An interesting video, it brought some memories back. The comments about lifting carpets was spot on. I can remember leaving the earth cable in plugs longer the L and N, I thought it was common practice. Finally when you said “I’m getting old” as you knelt down strikes a chord, my knees are painful to kneel on, due to years of kneeling,not bad enough for surgery but I don’t kneel if I can help it.
One of the best videos you have done methinks. Long and varied. Thanks for taking the time to share, appreciate it ;-)
Thanks you, really appreciate it :)
When you start doing clean industrial/commercial and enjoy and then come back to a stinky domestic the motivation is gone! With you on that one :)
Varilight do a dummy dimmer module! Thats what we use Tom! Looks like a dimmer but doesnt rotate (just pushes on/off). We just take the existing dimmer module out & swap it with one of those!
Great vlog Tom 👍🏻good watch this eve
Great video once again can see why you would prefer industrial or highways 👍👍
Great video as always 👍 That radiator was absolutely ridiculous - but very funny 😁😁😁😁
Glad you enjoyed it
Hi Tom
You can get dummy dimmers, they work exactly the same as a standard dimmer but don't dim. That's the neastest way I have found.
Forklift charging is to vent any hydrogen gas that might come out while it's charging.
I had no idea !
@@thomasnagy it's been a long time since I last drove one and I think they are mainly lead acid batteries so when they charge they can create hydrogen.
@@jerryuk93 like I said it's been a while since I last drove one and even long since I last did the training course. :)
Look forward to your content coming out. Makes good watching. Let's just say there are other channels that are not so worthwhile watching.
Good for you, man. It's clear you're a genuine good guy with that story about maybe hiring someone to give them a boost. I wish more people, especially electrical business owners LOL, were that way...
you can add dummy dimmer switch - simple push in for on/off module on the back of the plate.
Those batteries are wet cell lead acid and vent a lot of acid vapor to the atmosphere while charging especially when there flat, the lid up while charging is for ventilation and heat dissipation
Lead acid cells do require ventilation. But should not produce any significant gassing until they approach being fully charged. And unless damaged, they should not normally vent acid. As they get close to being fully charged, they will start gassing, and release hydrogen gas.
Click Mode is your best bet for mix and matching switches like dimmers, intermediate etc... in single plate form
A “Chint” board is the last board in the wholesalers and you need one right now! I fitted one just to try one. I liked the solid neutral cables as well that’s why decided to try one. Don’t think I’ll ever fit another!
Recommendations for alarms for your unit: Pyronix, Visonic, Texecom, Scantronic
Great video, much appreciated.
Loved the chair at the end. I have a hammock in my van when I'm on nights and not on a call out. I know that sounds bad sleeping in work but it's a job that is unpredictable for emergency calls.
I do love that chair. I have another one set up in the office, you'll see in next weeks video ;)
Better and Better each Time. 🙂🇮🇪☘️
Great idea Tom your in a great position to change someone’s life, keep doing what your doing you are all doing awesome 😎
with the switching use a 3 gang dimmer and change one of the dimmer modules to push on off, all look the same but the push on off for under cupboard lights, simple
Hi Tom great content, just something to bare in mind with some of these budget fittings is that they don’t always have a UGR
That radiator is straight out of the Olympic Village in Sochi 😂 also Marbo were made by a company called Marbourn, the factory was about 5 minutes from my house. They shut down about 20 years ago.
hahaha the rad tickled me thomas
31:45 was doing this at the weekend, faceplate and patch panel wired 568a standard, tracer using a 568B cable, could barely hear the tones - made up a 568a cable for the tracer and boom, loud signal at the far end. Keep this in mind, can loose a lot of time trying to find cables otherwise!
Thomas nagy has gone into feature length videos... Love it... Great work great content... 👍👍
The dimmer dilemma... Have you ever used dummy dimmers basically a switch that looks like a dimmer.
You can get dummy dimmers that look just like a dimmer but are push switches
To change the pendant in the stairwell, knock a hole in the wall and stick your bucket truck in.
The plasterer can skim it when you're done 😆
Try the hexagonal crimp tools for that 16A socket. They fit better in round holes
Even just basic crimper included on knipex installation pliers (creates a ‘u’ shaped crimp) does the job. I’m sure I’ve seen Nagy use them…
This. And Preciva does offer a hex crimper as well. The only time we used square crimps was in very picky industrial PLC push-in terminals.
At 23 minutes "Long Earth" Yes, good idea. In my private stuff at home, I have been following that ethic for years.
Same issue in extension I'm doing with regard lighting. I've convinced the customer to go with 2 dimmers and a dummy dimmer module for the under lighting. Asthetically looks better than 2 plus a switch
That wire tracer is dropping some major beats
seriously, I wanna hear the entire thing lol
@thomas nagy i believe the idea behind opening the seat cover is because when charging the battery`s they create a gas that can be explosive/flammable
We have modular switches here in australia where you can pop out individual switches and swap in dimmer modules wherever and however many you need. Schneider make them so you should be able to order them in
A big reason for the batteries is that, especially in large warehouses, you have charging rooms where you swap the batteries. I'll try and snap some pictures of the room at work next time I get the chance.
Also, it's not open to touch unless somethings broken. That's why there's plastic caps on all the terminals.
I'm curious about the voltage on that truck battery. The little grey square on the connector is a key and should have the voltage listed on it.
Forklift batteries are typically 48V, some more recent lithium ones 90V
I have old Rocla forklift, it has 24v battery. I charge it with 24v "smart charger", instead of original powerhog, what generates heat more than charge.
Charging with the lid/seat open is a necessity as gas could accumulate when charging, so it's to went it out, at least for older Lead-Acid batteries, the same goes for electric work platforms, you should always be careful around those when they have been charged.
Li-Ion doesnt have that issue and AGM as well I think.
Great video.
Appreciate it partner :)
Be careful rolling CAT6. The pairs are different twist sizes and therefore each pair is a different length. This means you need to wire CAT6 correctly.
Tom is full on back and I’m here for it! 🤙🏼
I'm glad to hear it :)
We are very much in the same boat as to needing to hire someone in the near future. Same question, do we find someone with all the experience but 'baggage comes along with it too' (possibly reluctant to new management or change) or someone very fresh to mould and grow along with you as a growing company.
I'm leaning towards the second option and help out the little guys.
8:45 Love that radiator. 🤣😂
I would have put the WiFi above the false ceiling but good job. Its good to see your regular vids now.
I've worked above a ceiling like that, there was a special tool that slid up the side of the tile in order to pull it down. Managed to drop a tile on to a very expensive desk.
That radiator OMG. - brilliant 🙈😁
Tom I say you ask that woman if she’s interested in the position. I’ve done a similar thing in the past and had 0 regrets. Makes you feel good and you change somebody’s life. Bless 👍🏼
Fitted a chint board once, had to get a pry bar to straighten the lid out! 😬
Definitely offer that Young girl a chance. It's them up to her to follow through 👍
Mr Nagy, you get a 3gang dimmer switch on a 2gang plate and use a dummy dimmer for lights that can’t be dimmed
Loving all the content
Definitely agree with your idea of taking someone on and helping them. I think they would more than likely stay with the business also because of your kind attitude. Do it nagy
I love these videos, been watching them for a long time. But I often wonder how you can stay profitable with admin people, warehouse, lots of time spent driving around, all the neat gear, a camera guy etc. Ofc many of those are investments but is the ROI big enough? You probably want to keep you finances private I can understand that, but I would love to see some video about that topic. I'm a software engineer with my own company, and my expenses are basically a laptop, and when I have a customer I can bill 37,5h/week for many months straight. Thanks for all the videos!
Dummy dimmer module, Push on off. Just replace the dimmer module in the 3g dimmer with the push on off switch
Yep!!
Switched from ring to Eufy happy days finally no issues and can just enjoy the bell..
Burgess Ceilings are used in almost every supermarket in the UK. Had many near misses over the years with them. Normally damaged by removing them with screwdrivers rather than the correct tool (looks like a bottle opener)
Only Mr. Nagy would end a video lying on a hammock hanging off of a bucket truck, love it 😂😂😂👌
When i worked for a council doing cctv, fire alarms, emergency lighting etc when working in the civic centre, the ceiling was very similar, it had a little lip on each panel that would slide into, no lock, it meant get it wrong and it would fall, taking all other ceiling panels with it. This was so bad that you could only work on the ceilings when there was nobody in at the weekends
I've seen the radiator through a wall in a commercial premises as well!
8ft fluorescent (on jack chains) through a partition in a place I did some work in.
That was fun changing the tube!
You have seen the light…… it is at the top of pole next to a road
I would have thought being in a bucket while it is pissing down in February around 4pm when the day seems to go on forever a house rewire with many pubes may be seem bliss? 😉
32:17 If you short the ends, the tone will go completely silent and you know you got the right cable👍
41 minutes video, ur spoiling us lately. good work mate
I'm happy to hear you're enjoying the conent :)
Really loving the content Thomas, the longer video is brilliant. 👍🏼 I think you should offer that girl the job to come work & train with you guys. I think she will jump at the opportunity.🙂
Thank you, really appreciate it :)
An 18 to 25k jump for anyone is life changing, depending on their living circumstances you are literally giving someone a pay rise that equates to 7/8 months rent. I wish more business owners had your thought process! You are a good man!
Top content 👌👏
Appreciate it pal!
The reason why the forklift has the charger cabled that way is that you can swap batterries and it's simpler if you can disconnect them individually, and also when you unplug the battery connector the forklift is dead, thus preventing any accidents.
With the tone and probe you can touch the 2 wires together to short it out making the tone stop so you can confirm the cable
I think it was volex and Crabtree that shared design? Also you could have fitted a dual single dry line box for the separate switches and kept the Schneider 👍🏻👍🏻
Volex was cheapo kit and Crabtree was top notch.
That rad is beautiful
That’s what I thought 😂😂😂
I believe the seat up thing is two fold. 1 heat dissipation and 2 an extra step to ensure everyone knows it's charging.
You have the most sensible commenters on TH-cam some great ideas down there.
If you just put in the colors of a CAT6 randomly (but the same on both ends) the cheap tester will show a correct cable but it will not work with more than 10 Mbit. For full speed the twisted pairs need to be in the correct place.
I'm sure that's not correct, but I will try it on a 10Gbit run tomorrow at work
@@kmcat The insulation colours on the wires don’t matter, but being paired up correctly does, especially as cable length and speed increase. I’m sure for a single short cable it’s not that important, but equally a reliable working Gigabit Ethernet connection at 80m+ running in a bundle from a cabinet to an office is going to need the right grade of cable with the correct termination to work reliably. Doubly so at 10G.
Here are the results.
Tested in a live datacentre environment next to other data cables.
CAT6 over 40m in T568B tested out at just under 9Gb/s, the same speed was achieved with colours randomly placed - there was a slight increase in late collisions nothing major for 10Gb CAT6 over that distance.
CAT6 over 90M in T568B 1Gb/s, with colours randomly placed no to little difference
CAT6a over 40m was very much the same as above, using the T568B layout but now was able to achieve around 10Gb/s upto 90m. With colours randomly placed I noticed that 10Gb/s could be achieve but our SFP+ transceiver module did bug out a little.
@@kmcat There are hundreds of different combinations you could end up with, some works and others do not. For a correct cable the following numbers must be from the same colour pair: 1&2, 3&6, 4&5, 7&8.
If you want to try a really slow cable do this:
1 white/orange
2 white/green
3 orange
4 green
5 white/blue
6 white/brown
7 blue
8 brown
Think Volex is part of Electrium group with Wylex and Crabtree
Ooh yeah that old trick "my mate was watching it" 🤣🤣
@Thomas Nagy, Schnieder bought PDL from NZ, we have up to 6 mechs in a single plate.
Investigate this.
10:02 must love that radiator
Use a 3 gang plate and get a non dimming module push on/off.
As for under cupboard just use a kinetic module and put the receiver/relay under the cupboard.
No need for any new cabling to switch then.
Kinetic now make modules to go into grids as well.
Definitely a misspelled name on that consumer unit.
34:59 Tom, write into their contract that if they do bugger off they must pay all the costs you've paid out on them within a set period of time. The set period of time usually being how long it takes them to work the cost back if that makes sense.
For example trainee bus driver, get all your training, theory and practical tests BUT if you leave within 2 years your liable for all the costs of the training.