I was helping a friend replace a light switch. The wiring worked, but there was something I found that always concerns me: The neutral was switched, not the hot. Otherwise, it was wired backwards. This is a no-no. If you don't know enough about electricity to know the correct way to wire a switch, a wall socket, or a breaker, then don't. The life you save may be mine.
An elderly friend asked me to help her figure out why she was blowing a fuse, in a home run on a four fuse box.
ReplyDeleteI rang out the circuit from her basement, to her kitchen, to her backyard back to the basement and found the short.
Someone had replaced the stairway three-way light switch with a grounding two-way switch. She never owned up to it.
I tell everyone I know, white to silver, black to gold.