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Assuming you are talking about lamp cord wire. The ribbed conductor or the one with the writing on it will be the hot, the other will be the neutral. You can verify this with an electrical meter that can measure ohms. the center of you light socket should be the hot and the shell should be the neutral. Also if your plug is polarized (one wide and one narrow blade) the wide blade is the neutral and the narrow is the hot.
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Which is the hot wire if there are both black and red wires?
both
If there are two black and one white wire in ceiling light do I need to use both black for the switch to work?
If there are two black wires, it's possible that it was wired for a ceiling fan and that one of the wires is for the fan part while the other is for the light part. If so, one of the black wires may be switched while the other is always "on." Normally black is "hot" and white is "neutral" (NOT ground... ground is usually green).
How do you wire a two pole lamp holder with a pull chain when you have four wires coming out of the wall?
Assuming the wires are 2 blacks and 2 whites, and assuming one set provides power and the other set continues the circuit downline, you connect both black wires to the black wire of the lamp holder and connect both white wires to the white wire of the lamp holder. Turn the circuit off before making these connections.
How do you hook up ele plug in wires coming in to house the plug has white black and ground wires and the wire from the house has white black red and ground hooked to a 30amp fuse?
You will have to check to make sure. Normally, with 4 wires, the black and red are both power for 220. White for neutral and bare for ground. If you are only using one leg of it, you would use the black, white, bare ones and cap the red one. Someone may have used the 4 strand because they had it or 220 was planned but not done or both the red and black are hot. You should be able to tell in the panel. Do the red and black both connect to separate breakers or to one or is the red not connected?
Do you connect both wires on a pull chain switch one to black one to white?
There should be two wires in the box, black and white and possibly a bare one depending on the age of the wiring in the house. The fixture has two screws on the base. One wire goes on each screw. If there are short wires on the fixture, black to black and white to white. If there is a bare ground wire in the house box, it attaches to the body of the fixture. If there is no ground screw on the fixture, do not worry about it.
Is there a car lighter adapter that will allow for both a cel phone and GPS to be plugged in simultaneously?
Yes there is a car lighter adapter and the site is http://www.shopwiki.com.
Which is the hot wire if there are both black and red wires?
both
If both wires for a ceiling light fixture are black how do you tell which is the live wire and which is neutral?
If both wires are black, the one that connects to your white wire is the one that should have little writing on it. Black to the plain black wire, white to the wire with writing.
When plugging the P8 and P9 power connectors into the system board which of the following is true?
the black wires of both connectors should NOT be next to each other
My light fixture has writing on one wire but not the other?
If both wires are black then the one with the writing is the neutral wire. If the two wires are black and white then the white one is the neutral.
Is Chris Brown black or white?
Chris brown is full black he's just lighter.
I hava a 92 suburban 2wd with a 4l80 is a 97 suburban 4l80 the same the bulk head on the 92 has 12 wires the 97 has 11 wires thank you?
If both vehicles have the same motor it should match up. You may have to order or make an adapter for the wiring.
How are normal video adapter and 3D graphics adapter alike?
They both involve images.
Will brown and blue make black?
If you use a dark brown and blue probably. If one or both are lighter than probably not.
How are a normal video adapter and a 3-D graphic adapter alike?
They both involve images.
If there are two black and one white wire in ceiling light do I need to use both black for the switch to work?
If there are two black wires, it's possible that it was wired for a ceiling fan and that one of the wires is for the fan part while the other is for the light part. If so, one of the black wires may be switched while the other is always "on." Normally black is "hot" and white is "neutral" (NOT ground... ground is usually green).
How do you wire a two pole lamp holder with a pull chain when you have four wires coming out of the wall?
Assuming the wires are 2 blacks and 2 whites, and assuming one set provides power and the other set continues the circuit downline, you connect both black wires to the black wire of the lamp holder and connect both white wires to the white wire of the lamp holder. Turn the circuit off before making these connections.
