I have a electrical wiring problem, when I put the tester in the outlet it give me the light combination of hot/neu. reverse. How can I correct this wiring problem?
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Every time I have seen a problem like that, I have replaced the outlet. In my experience, the outlets were all wired correctly when they were installed, and some internal malfunction was responsible for the hot/neutral reverse. If it is a wiring problem, and not the outlet, then just switch the hot and neutral wires to their proper positions.
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When looking at the receptical from the front : hot is on the right (small vertical slot - usually goldish colored set screw - black wire goes here) and neutral is on the left (large vertical slot - usually silver set screw - white wire goes here) and bare or green wire to the green set screw.
Thanks, it appears that I have a receptacle within the daisy chain that has the hot and neutral swapped. I'm going to pull each one and verify.
Thanks, Hot_rod
The Hot and Neutral wires are the ones connected to the receptacle prongs. They should be colored Black (H) and White (N). Just swap the two and you should be OK. Incidently, the two vertical slots in the recepticle are not the same from the front either. The slightly longer slot is thw Neutral connection and the shorter slot is the Hot connection. If you get them wrong, you risk lethal injury on devices with transformerless power supplies. Further, the screws on the recectacle are colored dark for Hot and brass for Neutral.
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It looks like you have some good answers. Swap the black and white wires on the recepticle you are testing, then look at every receptecle on that breaker and see if they are reversed, if so swapa them. Be careful of turning the breaker for that line bacck on until you have visually checked all the outlets. Normally in wiring a breaker services only outlets or only lights, so the only thing you should have to worry about are the breakers on the circuit. If this is an apartment, call the manager and have him send out an electrician, do not do the repair yourself.
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