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What are the two wires one black and the other black with a white stripe?
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In general all that can be said if the actual use of the wires is not stated is that one wire is the "supply" and the other wire is the "return" but there is no way to tell which is which without first learning more about how electricity works. The question does not say where the wires are being used. If they are on something using a battery or similar Direct Current (DC) supply then one wire may be connected to the positive side of the supply and the other wire may be connected to the negative side of the supply. The only safe and sure way to tell which wire is which is to measure the voltage with a voltmeter. If the wires are on something using a household Alternating Current (AC) supply, or a lower voltage via a "power supply unit" or a transformer, then one wire may be connected to the "Hot" or "Live" side of the supply and the other wire may be connected to the "Neutral" side of the supply. It is not easy to find out which one is the Neutral and which one is the "Hot" by just using a voltmeter set to measure AC - you have to know a bit more about electricity to find out which is which - but you should still be able to measure the AC voltage. If the wires are on something else, such feeding a loudspeaker from an amplifier, then one wire will be carrying the alternating sound signal to the speaker and the other wire would be the "neutral" returning the signal to the amplifier. IF YOU NOT ALREADY SURE YOU CAN DO THIS JOB
SAFELY AND COMPETENTLY
REFER THIS WORK TO QUALIFIED PROFESSIONALS. If you do this work yourself, always turn off the power at the breaker box/fuse panel BEFORE you attempt to do any work AND always use a meter or voltage indicator
to insure the circuit is, in fact, de-energized.
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