AC wiring question - identifying neutral wire
Wayne.B brought forth on stone tablets:
On Tue, 22 May 2007 15:10:54 -0700, RW Salnick
wrote:
Please make sure that you have all your AC appliances unplugged when you
are checking...
I had all circuit breakers off.
That is not enough - it removes the hot side connection, but the neutral
and ground connections remain. If the appliance has a leakage path
between neutral and ground, opening the breaker will not change
anything. Unplug everything.
bob
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