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Black electrical wire is used for power in all circuits. Any circuit's black wire should be considered hot or live. Black wire is never used for a ground or neutral wire and should be used as the power feed for a switch or an outlet. A black wire is often used in a circuit as a switch leg, the connection that runs from the switch to the electrical load.

Red electrical wire indicates the secondary live wires in a 220-volt circuit, used in some types of switch legs and in the interconnection between smoke detectors that are hard-wired into the power system. You can connect a red wire to another red wire or to a black wire.

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Answer for USA, Canada and countries running a 60 Hertz supply service.The colour of wires identifies what the wires are used for. A black colour wire can be used as a hot conductor along with other wire colours. A white colour wire will only be used as a grounded conductor wire in a 120/240 volt system and a green coloured wire will only be used as a ground wire and nothing else.
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In most cases, no. red is usually the hot wire and black the ground, but follow them to be sure as it may have been rewired and insulation not relevant to function. red and black coding are generally used to distinguish the two.

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On an AC circuit for electric heating where no neutral wire is used, red jacketed red and black 2 wire is used.

On a DC circuit red and black wires are used to differentiate between the positive and negative polarities.

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When the colours red and black are used together it usually refers to DC wiring. The red conductor terminates on the positive of the power supply and the black conductor terminates on the negative of the power supply.

In North America the use of red and black conductors in AC systems can be used as any current carrying conductors. The only identified specific colours used in AC systems are white and green. White for neutral and green for ground.

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Both red and black wires carry current.

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