Installed a few outlets and other small things.
Instructions: Kill power. Remove old outlets. A few were just flopping around in the box because someone never bothered to get longer screws and secure it. Clean off over-spray paint from wires. Old outlets were friction back-stabbed but new ones will have a 270-300deg connection and tight attachment. Find myself holding an empty end of a copper ground wire. Repair that and double check them all. Another ground is not even hooked up. Install new GFIs. Sweating like crazy. A finger gets hot. Oops the breaker is on. Mom decides she is going to move my ugly tools around and bring all the dishes back in the kitchen while we have a discussion about life and my bad eating habits. Ok top wires go back to top, and bottom go to bottom. Massage wires back into the box carefully. Slow 'er down.
The outlet pops.
But the tester briefly flashes correct installation.
Hmm, must be a bad outlet from the store. Reinstall with a different one.
That outlet pops also.
I finally decide to read the damn instructions.
Then I learn the difference between
line and
load sides of a GFI.
Remove two wires from the outlet and see which has power when breaker is on. That is the upstream line side.
It goes to the bottom of the outlet.
Just like the damn picture says.
