Re: Strange Wiring

On Sat, 25 Aug 2007 13:47:35 -0700, in sci.electronics.design
HardySpicer <gyansorova@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I have a clothes dryer which I inhereted. It has been working fine for
years until I moved it and the plug virtually fell to pieces (the
earth was the worst).
When I put on a new plug I realised that somebody had connected the
live to the Earth connection, The Earth to the Neutral and the Neutral
to the live pin!! How did this ever work?
There is about 6v between neutral and earth (last time I measured in
the UK) and the earth was the live!
When I swapped teh wires it worked fine too.

easy, the earth is connected locally to neutral, if you had a RCD
breaker it would have tripped


Martin
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