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Computers are not dryers; they do not have a "hot wire."
A standard desktop PC power supply unit uses this color code:
The black wires is ground (zero V).
The red wires provide +5 V.
Yellow wires provide a +12 V to a device.
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Which color is the hot wire for usb cord?
USB is not a clothes dryer; there is no "hot" wire. There are four wires in a standard USB cable. One is red (+5v), one is black (ground), one is green (Data transmit), and one is white (Data receive).
What color is the ground wire in a computer?
Inside the computer, the various ground wires are black. Computers use direct current inside. The wiring color differs from AC, where both red and black wires are hot wires, white is neutral, and green or bare is ground. In a computer, the red and yellow wires are positive wires of different voltages.
What is the colour of the positive terminals of the power pack?
If it is a power pack that gives jump starts it would be the red, yellow or blue the positive would be white or black. If it is a power pack that gives jump starts it would be the red, yellow or blue the positive would be white or black.
What happens if neutral and hot touch each other?
If a "hot" wire contacts the "neutral" or ground wire, electrical current flows to the ground.
How do you get an ATX power supply to turn on?
ATX power supplies do not have dedicated switches. They are signaled to turn on by a small button plugged into the motherboard and placed on the front of the computer case. It is possible to force an ATX power supply to turn on by running a wire between the PS_ON wire (the green wire) to a ground wire (a black one).
When at a 2 pole light switch and the wire colors shown are black white and green which is the hot wire and which is the common?
the black wire is the hot wire
How do you wire a light switch with only black and red wires?
Connect the black wire to the incoming hot wire and the red wire to the out going load.
95 Ford F-150 losing injector pulse?
Injector pulse is controlled by the ECU. Injectors Have a red wire that is hot. Black wire is controled by computer ground...
What to do with the white wire in track light with black green and white wires if the house does not have a white one?
The white is neutral. The house does have a neutral wire even though it may be black. One of those black wires is the neutral and the other is the hot wire. You will have to determine which is hot and which is neutral. You can easily do this with a voltage tester. The wire that lights the tester is the hot. When you wire the light simply wire the hot to hot, and the white and green to the other wire.
Which is the positive wire between a white and black wire?
That depends if it is automotive or household wiring. On a car a black wire is almost always ground. On house wiring black is the supply (hot) wire.That depends if it is automotive or household wiring. On a car a black wire is almost always ground. On house wiring black is the supply (hot) wire.
How do you wire an up down switch?
You only have to break the black wire because it is the hot wire.
Is the striped or the solid wire hot?
White is typically neutral and black is hot. If you are talking about the bare wire, that is ground.
When wiring a house do you have to use the black wire as the hot wire?
No, there are different occasions when the red of a three wire cable gets used as a hot wire. There also times when the white wire gets used as a hot but has to be re identified as a hot with marking tape. When wiring baseboard heaters the cable used is red and black with no white wire in the set.
Which of the two wires is hot which is neutral?
If this is a home wiring question and the wires are black and white then black is Hot and white is Neutral. If you also have a red wire, it is the other hot wire, and either the black or the red wire to the white one would be 120 volts, and red to black would be 240 volts.
If there are a red wire a black wire and a bare wire in a 120 volt supply wire which is the hot wire?
Where there is a red wire involved that usually indicates some type of special switching arrangement or more likely a 240 Volt circuit. In this case there will be 240 volts across the red and black and they will both be hot. Normally for 120 Volts the black is hot, the white is common and the bare wire is ground.
Which is the Hot wire and which is the Neutral wire if the wires you see are a Black a Red and a Yellow wire?
Black red and yellow is three-phase. there is no neutral.
My Windshield wiper motor stop working for my 1995 cutlass supreme. Can you tell me which wire is the hot wire and the ground wire?
Red is hot, black is not.
