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An outlet with a built-in surge protector? Let's check this out
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Dave Taylor here and as you can see I'm in my kitchen
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Now my kitchen has a GFCI. That's this plug and that's a ground fault circuit interrupter
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Now a GFCI is really helpful but on this plug I tend to plug in a lot of electronics
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Everyone charges stuff and when we have exotic electronics they often end up plugged in there
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And here's the thing, a GFCI protects you from ground faults, hence its name
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And a ground fault is when there's an inadvertent contact between an energized conductor and ground or equipment frame
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Right? Bad news. But it doesn't protect you from surges. And a surge is when you suddenly get too much voltage down the line
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And this can fry your electronics. This can shorten the life of your electronics
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It's bad news. So what you see a lot is people will use big external devices that are surge protectors
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I don't want to do that. So I got this. This is the Top Greener Surge Protector Receptacle Outlet with the friendly name of TGTRSS215R
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We'll just call it surge protector. And it's pretty cool. So as I open it up, let me get my knife
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As I open it up and hopefully don't cut myself, let me tell you a little bit about it
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So let me just actually focus on the cutting part first. Okay. We have it open
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Now this is a surge protector and it also is a child safe design
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So what Top Greener does is they have these outlets that are designed so that if you try to plug in foreign objects
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something that's other than a regular plug, it actually won't work. So this is what it looks like
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So let me take it out of the box. And it is, as you would expect, just basically a regular looking power outlet
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So it just has just a couple of wires. It's super easy to work with one on each side, one on the bottom and instructions that tell you how to do that
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And because it's a different shape than a lot of plugs, it actually comes with one of these
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which is important because like if you can see back there and I'll give you some shots, some photos as I go
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But that's an old style outlet. So the wall plate is the wrong shape for this
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So this is like I said, it's a built in surge protector
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It's child safe design. It's self grounding, which is cool. And it's up to 900 joules. That's how much it can actually protect
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And it's 15 amp, 125 volts. And let's see. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to actually switch over and I'm going to give you like a narrated photo tour
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because you don't want to watch me do this. This could be painful
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But basically it's going to be pretty easy. I'm going to drop the power on that circuit
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You always want to do that. And interestingly, that is not on my GFCI
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So I can't just pop that one out and then have that be dead. I have to go out to my main breaker board. It's all right
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And make sure that outlet is dead and then I can switch it for this
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And I'll show you that as a sequence of photos. And then we'll come back and we'll look and see what's going on
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So, like I said, this will give us some nice surge protection
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So let me go ahead and switch to that and we'll come right back
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Here's how my outlet looks when I started. And of course, you pop off the wall plate
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I've already dropped power. So now I'm going to pull the outlet out of the wall
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You can see there are four wires going into it, two black, white and an unshielded line, which is actually ground
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So I unscrew all four of those. Then I get the new outlet and simply match things up
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So ground, then white to white and then both blacks go on to the black receptacle side
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Now, all I have to do is put it back into the wall. Not so easy because there's a lot of wires back there
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But finally, I succeed. Add the wall plate and done. It worked pretty easily. The biggest problem I had was that there's so many wires in that back wall that it was really hard to get the outlet to fit in
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Because obviously it's a lot bigger than the old one. So I struggled. Finally got that to work. Thank goodness
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And now it's working. Now, you'll notice in a couple of the photos at the very end, I had brought power back up to test it before I put it into the wall
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And that gave me a green light. Now, the green light means that it's protected
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The light below it would be red and that would mean that it's not grounded. That would be bad. We don't want that
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So the fact that it's there and it's obviously working, I have things plugged into it and they're working fine
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And I have that little green light and that tells me that I am protected from surges. And that's exactly what I want
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So that's great. So really, this isn't really designed to be in kitchens, to be totally honest
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I think I'm probably a little atypical that I have so many devices plugged in in the kitchen
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But generally, this is something you're probably going to want in a living room or an entertainment center, or this would be great for a home office or something like that
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So, like I said, 900 joules of protection, 15 amps, 125 volts. This is just going to replace a regular outlet, but give you surge protection
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Total no brainer. Now, before I get to the price, let me ask if you can go ahead and click on that subscribe button
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Really appreciate when you do that. OK, cool. Now, this is the Top Greener Surge Protector Receptacle Outlet known as TGTRSS215R
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And it is $22.99 at Amazon.com. And I would say if you're reasonably handy with a screwdriver and you know how to drop your circuit so that you bring down the current, you can do this yourself
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If not, get an electrician to have it installed. Either way, it's a really nice upgrade, particularly if you're a home office or entertainment center or something
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So, I say check it out. So, that's it. And I'm going to go back and reassemble my kitchen now that I have all the power back on
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Which means I'll catch you in my next video. Go to Beadaholique.com for all of your beading supply needs
