[Electrical] Whoever Wired This Should Be Charged With Attempted Murder...
Anyone else see anything wrong here? At least TWO problems...
Problem 1: REVERSED POLARITY! Problem 2: NO GROUND CONNECTED! This is setting up anyone plugging in something with neutral+ground bonded and connected to the chassis to die!!!
How can you tell from the photo that the wires are reversed?
Years ago I installed a modem and the moment I powered it up, it blew the magic smoke. Had a spare with me and smoked it too.
Used an ordinary circuit tester with the lights indicating errors, and showed all was fine. Finally found out the ground & neutral were hot & hot was neutral.
I had plugged into their surge protector feeding their printer and router and previous modem - those devices were ok with the reversal.
breaker box has the blacks connected to the breakers
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EDIT: I could have done it, years ago. Grew up (12 yo) with electronics where ground was black. The first time I went to work on 120VAC, it was WTH. This isn't wired right. Then I found out black was hot.
Weren't polarized plugs introduced in the 80's? That circuit looks much older than that, probably before even a ground requirement, in which case the only wrong thing done was not bringing the wires into the box. Murder attempt? Give me a break...
Weren't polarized plugs introduced in the 80's? That circuit looks much older than that, probably before even a ground requirement, in which case the only wrong thing done was not bringing the wires into the box. Murder attempt? Give me a break...
Please get your eyes checked or break out a magnifying glass or something. There is nothing wrong with the outlet itself. It is a polarized 3 prong outlet and someone hooked it up backwards and did not run a ground line to it.
I have since corrected the polarity and added a ground line and now have a normal outlet.
Also this other outlet near it is newer and was also wired backwards and it's ground wire was not connected to anything in a junction box about 5 feet away.
Weren't polarized plugs introduced in the 80's? That circuit looks much older than that, probably before even a ground requirement, in which case the only wrong thing done was not bringing the wires into the box. Murder attempt? Give me a break...
With 3 phase, almost any color can be hot, minus those standardized like ground and the like.
With 3 phase all colors excepting green are to be considered hot.
i've come across green wires that were hot a few times. i treat them all like they're an angry king cobra now. ALWAYS. even if i trip the breaker and tag it out---asshole customers have taken my tagout off and energized circuits on me before.......
With 3 phase, almost any color can be hot, minus those standardized like ground and the like.
With 3 phase all colors excepting green are to be considered hot.
i've come across green wires that were hot a few times. i treat them all like they're an angry king cobra now. ALWAYS. even if i trip the breaker and tag it out---asshole customers have taken my tagout off and energized circuits on me before.......
If I couldn't lock the breaker box (actually lock and require cutting/grinding to get in without key, not just tag) I'd ground everything out with jumper wires while working on it like linemen do...
