hi everybody I'm Dominic from XP in this video a short video I'm going to show you a couple basic tools how to check for voltage at an outlet we have a 120 outlet bolt here now and we're going to go to a 220 volt outlet one for the people that really don't want to start ticking and prodding oh yeah a tester like this basically what this is going to do it's going to tell us if we have power and if the polarity is correct meaning the wires if it's wired correctly and you see if we plug it in like this we're going to have two orange lights right here and on the top it's going to show you that is correct and if it wasn't well if the red one was lit that one's not lit and until it tell you what's wrong I'll show you more of that at the end of the video another tester we have it's a non-contact tester this is a particular and so it's it works better but they also have cheaper ones that are not so good these are I mean really as a reference on an outlet when it's facing it like this you're going to have your ground you have your neutral and you're going to have your hot on the right so we just put it in there lights up red goes BB beep also if you had a wire you can run it around the wire and it would beep it's not I don't recommend using it you have another tester here which this one's kind of cool it you plug it in and it will tell you if you're at 110 or if it's 220 volts lights up if you can see it lights up 110 volts there even if it's 125 volts it's still going to light up at 110 it's once you get into the 220 realm that both these will light up and then my favorite this takes a little bit longer to use depending upon is a regular multimeter so you know all multimeters are a little bit set up different so I'm not going to show you how I habits on AC voltage we're going to plug it in and this way we can actually measure the actual volts so we have a hundred and twenty two volts now that's basically how we are going to check an outlet so multi meet once again I'm a multimeter we're going to go to our Neutral and our are hot here and we're going to get our voltage or we can actually go we can go for keeping it into our hot here we can come down and put it into our ground and we should still have our voltage we can go back to our Neutral down here and still have our voltage okay alright so let's get over to a 220 volt outlet now all right now we're going to do a 220 volt now you know whatever planes electricity you wanted you know use caution of course and now of course you know you're checking for voltage so the circuits live right okay so let's go to the 220 volt all right this is our dryer outlet which is a four wire 220 volt 30 amp outlet now obviously I would be nice but we can't use one of those we could use our our non-contact tester so we have hot I can't get in there quite that good with this you know so you see again this wouldn't be a good alternative because I know it's hot but this tester I can't get in there good enough around so this is really you know not a good idea okay let's go back to this one now if you don't know I mean looking at an outlet like this and yours could be upside down or it could be a different amperage which would even look different but this is still a four wire we have our our hot a hot we have our neutral and we have a ground okay so what we're doing we want to check for 220 volts we're going to put these both into the hot lead which means that are in there so it's a little bit harder to reach you can see now that whole entire thing lights up now so you you know we you didn't have the 220 but you had something else going on we can go from one hot 2 to our neutral and we have 110 volts and go back to the other one and make contact it hard okay we're not getting at a per second there okay okay let's go back to the multimeter now now what we're checking we want to make sure we have our 200 and are at least 220 volts so we're going to hot - hot and if we read our multimeter right there you'll see we have 245 volts okay now if we go back to the ground we have half of that which is well not exactly but 123 volts we can go to our Neutral and we should have the same if we can just make contact in there there we go good oh so that's how we're going to check for voltage out of 220 volt outlet okay now here's our little plug in tester as I've shown you earlier now I'm not going to get crazy into it because I must have about several different ones of these different brands and colors and they're not all the same some of these the reversed and whatever okay but just give you an idea this one here is showing that if we have two yellow lights that is correct where where it's whited out right here that means not lit at all if you go on you'll see this red light is lit this one out the next yellow is lit but the one way on the end is not lit and that's telling you that you have you have the hot and the neutral reversed and so on it tells you all this and of course if none of them were lit you don't got diddly-squat so I mean again that's this particular one all right well that's how you check eye two outlets 220 volt and 120 volt outlets with the different test or is dependent upon what exactly are you trying to achieve do you just have power or whatever are the the voltage readings on them now shows you a couple different ways to test it anyway be safe don't get shocked any questions comments just leave them I reply to all of them and subscribe I'm going to go back and see Mike win some money