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A childproof wall outlet with a built-in nightlight? This I want to install
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Dave Taylor here and I have certain hallways in my house that are just dark. You know
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you wish there were windows everywhere but frankly at night they're going to be dark anyway
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So as you can see in this photo in this particular hallway I have a big fancy nightlight in there
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Now the nightlight works really well and it's an emergency light and everything but it takes up an
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outlet and it makes it a little tricky to get things plugged into the other outlet. Much better
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would be to actually have a wall outlet that had a built-in nightlight, right? How cool would that
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be? Well Top Greener knows how cool that would be because that's what they have. This is the
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Top Greener Safety Plus Guide Light Wall Outlet and it does have a pretty scary code name. It's
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the TG215TRGL. Make a note of that. But it's actually really cool. So as you can see it's a
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very simple design and it comes with multiple face plates so you can change the color of it
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and it comes with a wall plate and check this out the wall plate doesn't have any screws in it so
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that's another piece that makes it safer for your little tiny fingers of your little people, right
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So it's a low LED output light and it actually has little covers that it comes with so you can
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just leave it as a frosted light and it should give us a nice sort of general illumination but
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you can put in these little tiny louvers and then it will actually focus the light down if you just
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want to have it for example maybe on the stairs just lighting up a step or two and it has I don't
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know where it is it's some magic somewhere but it has a built-in photo cell sensor so that's pretty
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sweet too and like I said it has tamper resistant shutters and a screwless wall plate so it gives
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me full functionality and it will give me a nice little night light which means it's time for me
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to drop power on this circuit and actually change that wall plug or wall outlet and actually replace
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it with this so let's go ahead and do that. Okay so now let me walk you through the process of me
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actually switching wall outlets it's pretty easy but you really want to drop the power so that you
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don't have to worry about getting shocked you have a circuit breaker somewhere in your house figure
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out which circuit easy enough then as you can see take off the old wall plate unscrew the old wall
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outlet and most likely you have exactly three wires going into it you have hot and neutral
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and ground and you want to actually basically put them in the same places on the top greener outlet
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so the hot wire goes into the brass screw and it says on the back hot so you don't have any worries
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there and then the neutral goes on the opposite side of it and that goes again it's easy enough
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it's a silver screw and then ground just goes onto the edge and that becomes the ground wire
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you get all three of them nice and tight you tuck it back into the wall you screw it closed as you
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can see I've done here and then put on the wall plate which turns out to be two pieces so you
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split it apart with a screwdriver super easy put one piece on snap the other one on and you're good
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to go now when I turned the power back on you're curious what happens here's what happened boom
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it lights up really really nice and when it's bright I found out by flashing a flashlight at it
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the night light turns off so it's perfect it works exactly as I would hope and here's my old plug or
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old wall outlet and you can see it's been in there a while there's actually dust on it that's pretty
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alarming but in any case this is like old school boring and now I have this cool new top greener
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safety plus guide light wall outlet really really happy with it I now have both outlets available to
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be able to use with vacuum cleaners or whatever I want and I have this automatic night light that
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turns on when it's dark and turns off when it's light out so that's really just ideal now before
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I tell you the price and this price will make you rush out to whatever you want to you know Home
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Depot Lowe's or maybe just go to their website and pick one up you'll want to do this ASAP but
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before we get there let me ask if you can click on that subscribe button and subscribe to my channel
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really appreciate when you do that cool okay now this is the top greener safety plus guide light
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known informally in small circles as the TG-215-TRGL so on the top and it is $19.99 at
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topgreener.com that is a no-brainer this is a great one to also put in your child's room right
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instead of having these sort of outlets and worrying about safety and then having a night
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light which they're going to probably knock off or break anyway just replace them with a couple of
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these and you will have a nice very happy child who never has to sleep in complete darkness and
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you never have to worry about them poking around at it because as I said it's a safety plus child
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safe wall outlet nice stuff top greener really like everything I've got from them and I am going
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to go and just sit in my dark hallway and enjoy my night light that's really weird I know but so it
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goes anyway that means I'll catch you in my next video
