REPAIR a bad connection in a socket
At the suggestion of Carmen, a faithful follower, I will tell you how you can fix a socket does not work.
The reasons for not working may be several: the cable is broken somewhere, which is weird because if you have not done any work, the cable goes into the tube and protected. Only if you have a cable too thin for tension to be supported by the plug, it could overheat and even melt.
Another reason could be that the cable has been moved into the junction box and has been released. This is also quite unlikely, unless you've handled these joints and you are no longer evil.
The latest and the most common reason would be that the mounting base does not have tightened the screws and the movements in and out the plug from its base, finished cable to get loose.
Three tools are essential for me in any electrical work: a screwdriver with insulated handle, a pole and the other seeks fundamental tool for jobs Electricity is the caution:
we cut off the light whenever it is not necessary to prove a connection, we must be properly shod with rubber soled shoes, never handle the cables with wet floor or wall, of course, also dry hands, and if we have any doubt about if a wire carrying current, we can use heavy rubber gloves.
He seeks poles, is an insulated screwdriver in the handle that has a light that lights up when in contact with the pole tip vivo. This tells us if it really can be dangerous to play there and tells us if the current reaches the end of a cable.
Well, we take the buscapolos and we introduce them into the holes in the base. We do this to know if it current. although it may be that the pole that is released is the living.
energize, because if we have a loose wire, it can be touching the base plate can touch or even accidentally remove the base.
then remove the bezel. In this case, the bezel is removed prying with a flathead screwdriver between the tile and trim. The sockets that use this system often have a notch in the area where it attaches to the wall.
In other instances, the bezel is attached to the base and remove the screw that we have the basis to also remove the bezel.
In our case, we have removed the bezel, which will pressure, then unscrew the base.
then loosened the screws that attach the veneer into the wall socket. It is not necessary to remove them completely. Just loosen, turn the plate a bit and it will be the whole thing.
Now we can see right connections. Normally, you typically use blue for the neutral pole and used to live in brown or black. The ground wire is usually always yellow or yellow with green stripes.
Sometimes in a socket of a cable goes to each pole. This is because, as is the case we see in the picture, to the same base have been removed to another base adjacent cables. This increases the risk of has been able to leave a cable.
I only have to loosen the cable fixing screw loose, roll up the hair on the tip of copper cable, put it in the hole ensuring that nothing remains of copper eyes and tight.
Before assembly, we can connect the power and check the power buscapolos if the pole comes alive. We return to disconnect the power and continue.
The assembly we do it in reverse order: metal plate socket, trim.
If we fail in this operation to repair the wall socket, some thought given to review the junction box or even replace the cable. Both are subject for another post.
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