what's up my friends today we are out on a ranch that we've been working on
for a while we're in the trim out phase so we're getting all of our
uh receptacles all of our switches installed plates everything like that we've got some new
devices that schneider electric sent out so let's check these things out
now it's really important to note that the xd series is not even out on the market yet so it's
something that they're going to be releasing soon they just sent me a couple packs to check
them out but the x series is available for you to buy i'm just cooler than you so i get to try them
first so one really cool thing is i've been working with the kiddo all summer my son josh has
been my apprentice for the last three months while he's waiting his senior year in uh high school so
he came along with me a lot of the stuff that you're seeing he actually filmed
but uh it's been really cool getting to work with him and just crack on him and make him feel
miserable and terrible as an apprentice no but seriously josh you killed it uh have fun in school
not being out here digging trenches with me every day i'm gonna miss him all right
today is my son's first day so these devices that we're going to be putting in during this trim
out are connected wiring devices from schneider electric they're the x and xd series so it's this
new series of connected wiring devices that and connected wiring device just means literally that
you can see them they they link up to your wi-fi you can see them from your phone or you just have
a little bit of control over it so if you're not familiar with schneider electric's uh wiser energy
monitor they've got this wiser energy monitor that basically allows you to see your entire
system digitally so instead of having kind of like a dummy electrical system you now have a
little bit of power it's a little bit smarter so it allows you to see your total energy usage
it allows you to see even specific loads if you haven't seen the video i did on this
last year around this time i did a video click the little bubble you can see what the actual thing
is how to install and everything but essentially what it does is gives you a lot more control over
your house and able to see your electrical system so it'll pull up these big bubbles on the app and
it'll show you like what are the big things that are using the most amount of power on the system
what are your smaller loads you can sit and name different things if you want to but up until now
they haven't had the actual devices that can go in circuits that actually link up to this technology
before it was just the technology as a way to monitor the system so these new devices are ways
to specifically look at certain loads within a circuit and that hasn't been able to be possible
up till today so for example like before you would just look at the circuit as a whole and it would
just say like the circuit is using this much but you can take a circuit and break it down and now
you can have specific devices and you can monitor each specific device to see what's happening with
that certain load i think that's rad now the two devices that we're going to be talking about today
that have that capability are their new x series dimmer and x series receptacle so it's basically
a wi-fi dimmer and a wi-fi receptacle so you can install these specific dimmers or receptacles and
you can see what's going on with them on the system so for an example if you uh wanted to
have control on being able to dim certain lighting loads remotely from an app or turning lights on so
like you know it's night time and you're driving home and you want to make sure that your exterior
lights are turned on and you guys forgot to do it before you left you can in the car be driving and
pull up your wiser app and actually click that load and make those lights turn on you can click
uh as many loads as you have really or say you have like uh it's christmas time and you're away
and you're like oh we forgot to turn the christmas tree on we got this nice big beautiful window
and we want the tree to be lit up so all the neighbors hate us and we're better than them
you can actually turn a receptacle on or off and you can actually see the the usage of that
the where this extrapolates out to is a really cool thing because it actually
allows you control to see what's happening with your electrical system without you even being home
so you can see if like the kids came in and were doing stuff at night you know they could
see what is actually being used if there's a toaster that went on if your dryer is running
or something and you forgot that it was running when you left like there's a lot of versatility
to this energy monitoring system and these connected wiring devices just ramp it up a level
so on a big fancy place like this where we're gonna have customers that are coming in to rent
out you know these buildings and they can stay there with families they can go do hunts things
like that having a little bit more control from the owner's perspective to see what's going on
is a really good thing the next really cool device that i installed in several different
places these were really just around the beds and countertops where there was going to be charging
areas are there usb receptacles these are the x series still so most of the devices are x series
they've got some plates and things like that that are decorative that are xd series but the x series
usb receptacles are very similar to a normal usb receptacle except that they have a higher amperage
and it's at both of the usb slots so most of the usb receptacles that you're just gonna like buy
at home depot or something like that are just going to be like a one amp slot and a two amp
slot and that's it so if you plug in one or the other you're gonna have normal charging and then
you might have a little bit faster charging well both of the slots in this x-series usb are 2.4
so they're faster charging than anything else on the market and there's actually two of them and
they both charge at that same high amperage so i think that's really cool i hate sitting there
waiting for my phone to charge or waiting for my earpods to charge any longer than i need to so
having something that charges a little bit faster is definitely a bonus another one of their devices
is the x series switch so they have this new style of switch that i think is really cool
the face plate is removable so you can basically trim out an entire house with all of these devices
you don't have to worry about the face plate getting painted over or getting over sprayed
or anything like that there's actually an internal rocker that you can take all the plates and as you
know after everything is done the final paint is on the wall you can go and snap all of these face
plates in and then they're changeable too right so you have a bunch of different style options
they even have the xd series of plates for these devices and the xd series gives you a little bit
different look to the devices so i actually have installed these in my house i think these are
really cool it's kind of big and like it's different you know than normal little tiny
switches but instead of having like a small switch but you still have a big plate on a device you can
now have the entire device be a switch so they have this xd plate that you can put in the same
x series switch it's got the same little prong teeth thingies that that go into the device
but it gives you a large paddle so even if you're like vision impaired or anything like that or
maybe some like elderly family they don't want how like to have like tiny little switches or little
toggles or something like that the kids can come up and slam this toggles and break them this gives
you an option to have like a much larger thing and the the like click sound that they make is so cool
so i just like them because it's a new style right like i like anything that's being
done new and that changes the look or changes how things work i'm like huge about development and
progressing where we're going so i love these switches the x-series dimmer that we talked
about before it actually has a plate on it as well there's this little wi-fi slider on it so you can
actually make sure it's connected or not connected but it also has a similar function to it but it
affords you the ability to have a dimmer in with it and it still uses a very similar kind of like
paddle uh as the face plate then the last thing that i did is put the xd series plates
over the x-series receptacles so they have a new x-series receptacle it's very similar to a normal
receptacle except instead of putting the grounds on the bottom or on like this weak little strap
it actually kind of reinforced the ground so that the ground terminates very similarly to how like a
normal gold hot screw or a silver neutral screw would attach to the device so it's just kind of
like more rugged i suppose you could say and it's a little bit more convenient because they located
on the side instead of on the bottom then the plate options that they have for these this is
actually really cool you can take an entire xd plate and you can have any color that you want
to you could change all of them from like white to brass if you wanted to or like silver or black
there's a bunch of different color options they have but the entire plate instead of having to
change out all of the devices when you want to go like you know change up devices on a place
you can literally just take all the plates off and put all the plates back on so if something gets
painted over or whatever and you're putting all of these devices in then you can just snap all the
plates right over the top of them and it changes everything about the look of the place so that's
pretty much it these are the cool devices that we're putting in this cool place just remember
xd line is still uh coming out in the future i'm just cooler than you that's why i have them
but the x line is available so go out and get you some the last thing that we have to do we have to
finish the trim out but we've got a little bit of the service that we have left to build we're going
to be putting a 100 kw generator on this property so we have a 400 amp transfer switch you've got a
couple of main disconnects that we're putting out at the service so i have to just finish tying some
of that up we got the power attempt in and then we got to finish breakering out the panels and
and putting some plugs and switches into the other buildings so i'll take you along the process with
me thank you guys so much for your attention i love you crazy people i'll see you in the next one