Neutral At Switches
#1
05-25-04, 05:16 PM
Neutral At Switches
How's It Going? This Is A Great Site. I Bought An Older Home, We Had An Electrician Inspect The House And Install A New Service Entrance. When I Was Changing Some Of The Older Swithces I Discovered That The Switches Were Splitting The Neutral Rather Than The Hot Wire To All The Lights In The House. These All Work Fine But Will This Be A Problem? Do I Need To Go And Rewire All The Lights To Switch The Hot? Thanks Ts
#6
05-25-04, 08:02 PM
We Traced Them Back To The Junction Box Or Light Where It Was Switched And Tested The Connections Then Confirmed It By Disconecting Wires And Using Ohm Meter To Trace Them.
#8
05-26-04, 06:55 AM
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Somehow I expect that your diagnostic procedure is somehow flawed. But I just don't have enough details about exactly what you did to spot the flaw. So far, we've only been speaking in generalities. Pick one specific switch and give us all the gorey details.
#9
05-26-04, 11:53 AM
Originally Posted by tigersnake
I Type In All Caps The Sight Changes It.
Are you sure the neutral is switched nad it is not just the white wire being used as a switch loop?
If the neutral is switched then yes you should change it so the hot is switched.
#10
05-26-04, 01:34 PM
The switch in the kitchen gets its source power from a 12/2 w/ground black, white, and bare. This comes in at the light, the black which is 120volts to ground, is hot, the white is neutral. The black hot wires are tied together with a wire nut and pigtale to the hot side of the light, the white wires are tied to one side of the switch wire down to the switch then back to the pigtale for hooked to the neutral side of the light. I am going to change all of these because I can see that this could be a problem. Thanks for the help and the typing advice. TS
