Re: Red, Green, Black, and White Wires
- From: "James Sweet" <jamessweet@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 23:27:37 GMT
My reservation about color-taping was not directed at professionals, but
at the odd homeowner 15 or 20 years down the line. The practice is
apparently more common than I imagined, and--red or black--would flag
itself to a pro.
The most common place you see this is in switch legs where power is supplied
directly to the ceiling box where the light fixture is mounted and then a
separate drop goes from that to the switch. In that case both wires in that
drop are technically hot, so the white one gets taped black and connects to
the light fixture.
The ones that get me are those houses where someone used whatever color wire
they had on hand for whatever, I see that in cars a lot of times too. Always
verify, and never underestimate the crazy things that some previous person
may have done. When I bought my house, all the switches downstairs were on
the neutral side which caused me to get bit pretty good once. Yes, I should
have shut off the breaker.
.
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