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Is the black wire the positive wire?

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Conventionally, the black wire is used for negative voltages.

In an automotive car and certain other places like hooking up a car stereo then it would be the negative.

The electrical appliances in the house.The black wire would be the hot wire and the white wire would be the negative wire.

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