Hot side. thats the side that shocks you when you build a lamp, test it before taping and then forget to unplug it before removing the switch right? Same side you cut to attach each wire to a nippl...uhhh never mind that last part. I am thinking I will put my retired EE father on this, give him something to do because like all engineers he doesn't have a Garage full of half done projects that his wife is yelling at him to finish.
On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 3:22 PM, Eichhorn, Roger <eichhorn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Knob and tube, with the wires a foot or so apart, was safe and will last forever. I too had a house built in 1916 in Lexington, KY and did a lot of wiring.
On two wire US extension cords, the neutral side is ribbed longitudinally and the prong is wider than the one on the hot side. The hot side is the one to cut if you're going to insert something in series with the load.
Roger
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On Jun 15, 2013, at 1:50 PM, "David Dyer-Bennet" <dd-b@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> New stuff yes, but I had ungrounded wiring and outlets in all four
> houses (current house was built 1916, and there's still a little active
> knob-and-tube wiring in it).
