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DAY IN THE LIFE OF A 24 YEAR OLD ELECTRICIAN - INSTALLING A CHARGEPOINT EV CHARGER IN TOUGH BASEMENT

What happens here

The video begins with an introduction to the project: installing a Level 2 electric vehicle charger at a customer's house. The initial assessment involves inspecting the garage to determine the optimal location for the charger, which the customer requested to be on a specific wall. The electrician then moves to the basement to inspect the main electrical panel, noting its current state and identifying an unused 20-amp breaker that can be replaced with a 50-amp GFCI breaker for the new charger. The basement also features a drop ceiling, which is beneficial for routing wiring without cutting drywall. The path for the wiring from the electrical panel to the garage charger location is planned.

Goal: Assess the installation site and plan wire routing

Tools and materials

  • Electrical Panel — Main power distribution unit to be modified

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What's going on, YouTube? It's Hendy the Sparky electrician from New Jersey. Today, customer called saying that they want a level two electric vehicle charger install charge point EV charger in their home. So, come and see. We're going to get it installed. Service call. Charge point. Boom. All right. So, I'll go into the basement. You want to go in the basement or you want to take a look downstairs? I'm going to come down. All right. Take a both ladders, right? Cuz we don't need any ladders in here. No. All right. Just put everything in. Yeah. Yeah, boots are good for like commercial garage work. Yeah, got to put shoe coverings on for sure, especially in residential. Just come in and put it on. All right. Oh, wait. No, actually, unless you want to grab All right. So, this basement is partially unfinished. It has a drop ceiling, so that's good. We can get this uh wire ran. We don't have to cut the drywall. The only place you might have to cut the drywall is here. But I don't want to cut. You know, if I got to run a little extra pipe, I will extra. It's extra everything. Rox and pipe, but I don't want to cut. I don't want to cut cuz like I'd have to seal it. Yeah. Drill holes like Okay. Got it. Yeah. Here's the panel, guys. Here's what we're dealing with. Panel. Panel looks pretty full. Thankfully, the customer said that this breaker here, this 20 amp's not being used. So, we're going to take this out. We're going to put a 50 amp breaker in. It's going to be a GFCI breaker because the customer wants a a plug-in Nema 1450R receptacle. I want to come out like over here. Okay. Let me check. Uh let me see what We're going to dress along the We're going to dress it along that. Sounds good. So, those are going to go back. Nice. Put those back tiles in. Okay.

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