[Amps] Question about safety ground connection

[Gary Schafer]

It doesn't matter which wire you use as hot and which one is switched when
connected to a switch. I have a wiring book that has two different examples.
One way white is hot to the switch and the other example black is hot to the
switch.

You should always mark a white wire that is used as hot with black tape at
both ends to identify it as a hot wire.
It is also common practice to come into the bottom of the switch with the
always hot wire and go out the top of the switch with the switched wire.

73
Gary  K4FMX

> -----Original Message-----
> From: amps-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:amps-bounces at contesting.com] On
> Behalf Of Will Matney
> Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2005 7:35 PM
> To: amps at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [Amps] Question about safety ground connection
> 
> In a switch leg using say 12-2 or 14-2 romex, the white wire is hot at the
> switch. The white and black tie together in the junction box of the light
> fixture, and the black off the switch goes to the black wire on the lamp.
> So yes, this is a case where the white is hot. The NEC only allows this
> case too.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Will
> 
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> On 11/15/05 at 8:24 PM Gudguyham at aol.com wrote:
> 
> >In a message dated 11/15/2005 1:20:38 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> >craxd1 at verizon.net writes:
> >
> >I always  want to know a neutral isn't hot unless it's going to a switch
> >leg
> >which I  think is the only NEC exception to the  rule.
> >
> >Best,
> >
> >Will
> >
> >
> >
> >If a "white" wire is hot, it is not a neutral.  So a neutral is never
> hot
> >unless there is a fault.
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