Electrical Wiring for the Gaming Center - What could go wrong?
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2019-05-06
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3,165 words · ~15 min read
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in spite of our complete silence ever since we showed off the first prototype
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of what will be the systems in the LMG land gaming center we have been hard at
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work in the background on the ultimate employee lounge and it is going to be
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freaking awesome
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keyword being going to be
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first we have a lot of repetitive ass work to do wiring up this place for
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electricity and networking
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but there's a plus side i brought back brian to help hey guys
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okay so um why don't we do a haul video here sure like is that is that a thing
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that they do in the electrician business so this here is our big oh my god
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do you want me to hold that no i can hold it
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this is our big old spool of
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electrical wiring what what's this called it's 14 3 lumex 14 3 lumex is
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that like the good oh it's the adequate it's what you use
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for wood frame it's what you use for wood frame yeah come on in closer come
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on check check this check this stuff out long story short our uh so you told them
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cat6a right yes because all of our gaming systems are going to be 10 gig
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because we can um and brian says he specifically told
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the supplier cat6a and they delivered cat 5e we called them
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we're like hey yo we need cat 6a they're like yo we don't have any of that good
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luck and we called a few other places nobody has it really like it's crazy well i
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remember too back when we ordered this pool we had to get it from the states we
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had to special order it but the good news is even though we didn't get the
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right wiring we found this spool of
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cat6a so it's a nightmare to work with but that's okay because we're
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terminating into keystone jacks this time so it should be a complete
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non-issue and i found all the old runs
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from the old office that we used to have up in carabiners screwed into the
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ceiling running from like the bottom floor up to the top floor finally
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speaker wire so we're going to wire the whole place up for sound not necessarily really
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knowing exactly what we're going to install and when we would do it
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oh yeah right more cool stuff uh
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electrical boxes these are couplings for the conduit and then these are snap-in
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connectors bunch of light switches and whatnot
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a bunch of uh terminations for our networking
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plugs plugs and then we got this what is this that
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is just a really big junction box we'll run a conduit or two
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out of the panel yeah we'll run the conduit to this box up on the wall and
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then from here we'll break out to all the plugs and the lighting in the room
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okay so basically the deal today is i'm your like totally untrained apprentice
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i'm your assistant so whatever it is that we're gonna do
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i'm gonna do some of it too sure so why don't we start with mounting boxes sure
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i noticed you brought a lot of drills you know we have drills here yes but i
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like using my drills right but you can't use four drills at once
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well they all have a different purpose this is corded so there's no batteries to kill for one
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this is a regular drill and then the other two are impacts okay
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just compensating so why don't we grab that giant box of
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goodies okay that's my job right i got it sure
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okay i'm gonna put it over here the following instructions sir yes sir
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how about i move the ladder is that an apprentice job sure
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i got it sir the ladder has been relocated sir
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you're an apprentice you're not in the military right
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so what do i need from this box two gang box two gang box
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single gang box single gang box yeah these holes are gangs then essentially
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yeah so how many devices you can got it yep then we just need screws how to
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drill is this kind of like pc building where you just don't bother with all
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eight of them or like yeah if you use all eight that is hugely
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overkill so this is kind of eyeballed anyway hey yeah
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ow with a dead battery dead battery brings
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all the drills brings no batteries so basically brian's the kind of guy
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that's got the tool but none of the stamina
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no no i just have a day job that i use those areas yeah you heard me brian
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okay so that seems solid enough i mounted a box
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so now we need a data ring
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oh wow it comes with screws already in it they should all be like this that's
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amazing actually are they robertson or phillips though phillips
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of course ow okay cool so that's done what now now we
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drill holes and pull wire that sounds really fun i don't know if i should
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trust you with this but
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okay what uh where do i put the hole so we're gonna need one over here and one
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over here and then same thing up there there yes yes same up there all the way
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up to the top right you could otherwise look ah my eyes i'll be
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back this is a really dull drill bit brian
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oh wow that's really
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dammit
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okay i drilled one hole
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wow okay just
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oh you i will need the tallest ladder because
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yes i have the shortest legs
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look you don't get to tease me about it when i'm already owning it that's the
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rules oh dog i'm fine you think we don't have a lot
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of clearance to work with yeah thank you yeah who's the assistant now
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this bit is zero out of ten better i
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actually wonder if we have sharper uh spade bits
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how's um 5 8 sound fine
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okay now what now we pull wire now we pull wire hell
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yeah these are going to come across yep and get stapled but you see there's
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blocking so we have to go above the blocking oh you haven't showed your innovative
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little uh spool holder here brilliant
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what what i mean it works
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i don't think you're supposed to stand on that one so then i just go
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over this doodad yeah and pull enough that it doesn't fall
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yeah as expected this is truly very tedious
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yup i'm having fun so far though that's good i'm
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electrician it's like adulting but with electricity
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and you want to leave a fair bit in the box yeah like how much
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like that yep that's fine and now we staple okay this looks more like a
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staple remover than a stapler
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you're just gonna whack it with it aren't you yeah that's stupid why don't you use a hammer for that
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because i can do many things yeah the thing is that not everyone's arms are
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that big i'm pretty sure your forearms are bigger than my biceps
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and then you want to staple what like every three or four feet or like
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shut up it's a lot easier yeah shut up
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so there's a little bit of wiggle and that's okay yeah
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i could really use a hammer well now i thought it stapled all
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the way up you need to staple it all the way across
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oh all right i'm getting a hammer
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i figured out why you gave me pliers you don't have a hammer what kind of man
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doesn't have a hammer in his tool kit i'm pretty sure they take away your man
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card if you don't have a hammer how's that hammer working for you like
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this better than the pliers would be i'll tell you that much
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so then what i just need to put some holes here here here and here and here
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yep we're actually going to need a few holes
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through that top plate so i actually just put like a bunch of holes in it
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yeah pretty much oh
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that's less good oh man okay i need to
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cover that i blame Jake for those wondering this is where six workstations
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one CPU ended up it's folding right now but uh
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we're gonna have to put that on pause aren't you not supposed to do that Linus
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do what reach way off a ladder what's more dangerous
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what i don't know what you're talking about
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okay so is that fine yes you hesitated okay so what i do now
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you could drag cat6 over for that data jack oh my god shouldn't i have done
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that at the same time uh yes and no because it still needs to all be stapled
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separately right but all the ladder movements
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i suggested pulling it earlier oh brian
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you're supposed to save me from myself here
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it's far more entertaining not so let's see if this is going to work
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here so is there anything else i could be doing while i move this ladder here
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like Jake has marked x's on the floor
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below where all the boxes go okay how do i mount an octagon box
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enter the octagon same way that we want the other box is
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this an octagon box yes it is that's because this is clearly a
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circle with two flattened sides i got this don't worry about it okay don't
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fall no i'm not gonna fall
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ow and that's why you don't leave things on the top of a ladder speaking of
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dropping there's also a certain expected minimum
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level of common sense as well is there
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is there on the job site brian is there
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oh i didn't do the octagon box what i didn't do the optical i'll do it
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while i'm stapling i'll leave it here
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are there any particular rules with respect to
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staples for data keep the distance about the same for neatness more than anything
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the only real major things are you can't run it
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through the same hole as a power lead
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because they're differing voltages okay and the other thing too being data yeah
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you don't want ac power anywhere near it yeah you get interference makes sense
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that's why we're running down separate studs for these i guess
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like i would straight up not be able to drive these in with that stupid pair of
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pliers so i've got two Ethernet runs done now
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one for the access point that's going to be up in the ceiling so it is starting
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to come together keyword being starting because there is a lot of work to do
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still here in canada this is the bond it's either bare or it's green there's
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actually a screw at the back of the enclosure so we can take that and wrap
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it around that screw snug it down
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and now this is bonded oh so all the europeans were concerned that we just
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don't care about safety basically that nothing was earthed yeah yeah
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here in canada we have lots of earth probably more than you
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unless you're in russia do you want to actually install the plug
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let's find out if i know how to do this so there's your strippers yep
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drivers are on the floor i didn't know you were bringing strippers to this whole uh party here so i should probably
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oh no hold on i know i know i know i know i'm
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gonna do the i'm gonna do the um fine tell me
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i make a point of not using the quick connect fine i'll use the other one then
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the reason being i've actually seen those connections melted and the
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insulation on the wire melted a ways back all right so we're gonna do our
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green one yeah so that's our earth wire
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bond yeah wow i suck at this how i poked myself who knew installing a
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plug would be so painful whoa
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one outlet done
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what about the cover plate we'll do that later see this is teenagers today
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they come in to like help and literally sit on the floor and also
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rather than clear eight things off of a chair they sit on
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the floor i mean how do these how are these people gonna
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find employment all right let's terminate some Ethernet i've only done
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this once other than that every single other time i've terminated to a jack
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for these though yes you don't have to remember oh no
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it's right on there that's a cool stripper
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so then check this out we've got this like gigantor
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separator on the inside and how much do you untwist them with terminations yeah
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for the specification you're actually only supposed to have about a half inch
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of wire untwisted total really yes that's it that's it
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okay i did not know that it was so little so you literally want to keep these yeah
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i guess it's not twisted pairs you untwist the whole damage exactly
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so i just hold it there just kind of bend and untwist it to that point yeah then it's
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twisted literally right to where you're gonna punch it down
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beauty so that's it this is terminated and then oh okay there's a little
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doodad that goes on
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and that's it beautiful right now just imagine the
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entire place with all of the wiring done
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so we fast forwarded a little bit and a
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lot has actually changed so brian has finished up the vast majority of the
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wiring now including electrical
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Ethernet uh speaker wiring so we could go
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surround sound in here in the future if we wanted to we'll see um and we've
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actually got some painting done so the rafters are now black that's a black
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stain it's going to look homey it's going to look cozy
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um all that's left now is to make sure that any of this actually works
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so we need a patch cord uh conveniently there's one on the floor sitting right
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there yeah that'll do it uh wait are we gonna need another switch
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oh balls are these labeled labeled one is the
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arcade two i think is the counter three is the far corner why don't we go try
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and we still have some left that one is damaged halfway through oh oh wow that's
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very damaged look at that okay do you want to go try uh number four and then
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i'm gonna go double check in the server room that we actually
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are plugged into uh this well try swapping it back to
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four you're into four
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oh hey hey all right let's see some internet
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browsage there it is
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oh i'm not allowed to watch that video no okay i have to leave now but uh let's
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make sure power works so four is the tv yeah so five will be the
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wireless access point got it so if you hear the beeping the plugs over there
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are on now oh oh nice so that's it
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