How Electricity Works

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Summary: Learn how electricity works in home wiring in this free online do it yourself home improvement video on basic electrical work.

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Danny Herb Danny Herb is a professional electrician in the Los Angeles area who works in both residential and commercial fields. read more

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How Electricity Works

I want to talk to you a little bit about electricity. There are two main conductors. There's a neutral and a hot. Green is always ground, green ground, GR GR. The hot is normally always black or if you have a lot more circuits it can sometimes be blue, it can sometimes be red, but always the green is ground always. White is normally always neutral, always. Electricity always tries to find the quickest path to earth. Now, the ground is there because it's faster and electricity would jump to the ground first before it goes through the neutral because the neutral takes a while to get back to the ground, but the ground goes immediately. So just make sure that you don't touch anything that's hot because it'll travel through you to get to the ground.