Gadgetory

so today I'm going to show you how to change from a normal boring outlet to a more high-tech dual USB outlet now death is an option during this project so make sure you flip the electrical breaker that corresponds with the circuit of the outlet that you're working on so you don't die kind of important so it's important to find the right breaker that goes with the outlet you're working on my particular one is in the basement so I'm going to follow this across and turn off number twelve and that will kill the power to the outlets in the basement so when you flip the breaker and I also plug in my heat gun to see if there's any power going to this outlet and econ's not turning on so I think we're good remember it is very important that you kill the power to this outlet because there is a possibility of death if you do not so there's one screw right here we're going to remove and that takes off the faceplate of the outlet then there are two more screws that hold it into the frame we have a couple different wires here we have white colored wires which are neutral wires we have a copper wire which is the ground wire and we have black wires over here which are hot wires now since there's no power going to this I can cut whatever wires I want so there is a way to get these out of the back but I don't really feel like dealing with that at the moment so I'm just going to cut them all except for this bottom green one which will still be convenient to having a loop okay so like I mentioned before the black wires are hot the white wires are neutral and then the copper is just ground so I'm going to go ahead and strip us off some more of these tips let's see the part where you die is when these wires are live and you touch both of them but since there's no power we should be just fine so this outlet has the two USB ports and the normal plugs on either side and for the back of it we have the hot wires and the neutral wires and then we have a grounding screw on the bottom so we're going to take the two white neutral wires and plug them into either these two holes on the backside of this that's a neutral and then we can screw this screw that'll make them tight so the copper wire is the same way we're going to take that loop and stick the screw through it and then stick it down into the bottom this is the ground wire very important now we're going to take the two hot wires it's still labeled on the back and we're going to stick those through the two holes in the side of the outlet then we can use the screwdriver to clamp down on the wires and keep them permanently there take the outlet and line it up with the top and the bottom screws of this little plastic hole that it sits inside all wall outlets are pretty Universal all right and so before I put this faceplate on I'm going to go flip the breaker din and make sure that it works and then this face plate will just clip in with these little tabs around the outside alright so the lights are back on and the deep gun and the heat gun is working so when I plug in my galaxy s7 edge it starts charging at the bottom but it does not say fast charging so this outlet is not capable of fast charging I will link it down in the video description below I will try to find one that comes with fast charging but I don't think that comes standard on a wall outlet level that's probably just in the adapter itself but either way you can still charge four phones with this outlet instead of two phones with this outlet which is kind of nice great for parties or when you have friends over and people need to charge their phone at night even though me getting electrocuted might have made for a more viral video I'm glad that didn't happen hit that thumbs up button if you enjoyed this you learn something or you want USB plugs at your house thanks ton for watching hope to see you around