What's up my dudes? Dustin with Electrician U out the field today I just
had a job that I had to go replace some some light bulbs really easy job but
it made me think of a time when I was a helper and I did something really stupid
you live, you learn though right? you gotta like make the stupid lessons to learn
them but I remember going and replacing like 30 or 40 light bulbs in somebody's
house and they were all recessed cans they wanted that incandescent changed
out to LED so of course I went over there and counted how many bulbs I
needed to get and just left and came back with all the bulbs and put all the
bulbs in well I didn't think about the fact that there were dimmers everywhere
throughout this house and dimmers are very specific with LED lights a lot of
incandescent dimmers will not work with LED so the kind of lamps that you put
into fixtures you have to make sure that you have the right kind of dimmer
anyways I didn't do that so I stuck all these LED lamps in everywhere homeowner
was really excited I was excited turned everything on full bright look beautiful
and then went to dim and all of them flickered and I was like oh no what's
going on why is that happening and then I looked over and I'm like oh shit I bet
these dimmers are not okay I didn't know anything about it at the time
so I learned the hard way like having to have the homeowner pissed off now that
I had to go spend a bunch of money and get new dimmers so that all their stuff
would work had to bite the bullet on that but so this job that I just went
to reminded me of that like the first time I went out and looked at it they
had a socket that was burned out and when I was there I said well you know
these are all halogen they get really hot you're gonna be replacing these
bulbs over and over and over again there's only 11 of them in here why
don't I just go get some LEDs in the place of all these things swap them
all out so you're never gonna have to worry about them they're nice and cool
and she's like oh great you know so it was a good upsell and it was
actually a quality upsell it wasn't me just upselling her a bunch of bullshit
it's actually something like that's true it's a it's a good upsell but the first
thing I did man when I counted all of them as I walked over that switch I
opened it up I'm like yep dimmer yup CFL LED incandescent it'll work for LEDs so
I don't have to worry about buying a dimmer cool so I was able to just go
out get lamps come in put them all in and then walk out and be done with the
job, so just something for you apprentices out there anybody that's like doing you
know even for a homeowner's if you're gonna go like re lamp your house and
put a whole bunch of new LED bulbs in and you've got dimmers everywhere
that's something you need to think about you need to open up the plate where your
dimmers are and read usually it's etched in to the the front of that device and
it'll have like a little light bulb and it'll say INC for incandescent and then
it'll have like a little swirly light bulb and it'll say CFL and then it'll
have another like little dots that say LED next to them and that's
for LED diode so make sure that the dimmers say LED and make sure that the
the lamps are putting in are dimmable LED there is such a thing as just non
dimmable LED you have an LED dimmer and you put these non dimmable LED lights up
ain't gonna do shit so you got to make sure that you're using LED like dimmable
LED bulbs with LED dimmers and even then there's some dimmers that don't
work well with LED lamps but anyways I just figured I'd share that with you
guys some of the stupid things there's a lot more stupid things I've done so I'm
probably gonna do some videos and tell you all about all the stupid things I've
done but that's just one of them love you crazy people see you in the next one