Looking at an electrical plug in the wall you will see two parallel slots. With the ground pin on the bottom, the slot on the right is the hot pin. The slot on the left, which is longer, is the neutral pin. Installing a receptical, the terminals on the back are brass screw to the hot wire and silver screw to the white. Brass, Hot - Silver, White, easy to remember that way.
The hot (water) outlet is generally on the left. The normal person being right handed would naturally reach out his right hand to turn on water tap on right and would get cold water. Cold water is more commonly used and would save person being burned when not expecting hot water.
In U.S. homes the black is hot.
Same goes for Canadian homes
also red wires are hot as well as blue wires
white indicates neutral wires
green or bare copper is the ground wires
As a general rule of thumb, for a standard 120v outlet, the black wire is considered hot. The white wire is considered neutral. The bare or green wire is ground.
if properly wired ...
the short slot
If wired correctly the red wire will be hot, but any wire can be hot regardless of colour if done incorrectly.
You can hot wire a boat. It just matters what type it is.
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.
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.
Connect the black wire to the incoming hot wire and the red wire to the out going load.
Very literally, hot wire is a wire that is hot. Pertaining to vehicles, to hot wire a vehicle is to start the engine or motor of the vehicles without the use of the ignition.
If wired correctly the red wire will be hot, but any wire can be hot regardless of colour if done incorrectly.
35 ampRefrigeratorRun a hot wire to the positive wire on the radiator fan
the hot wire goes to the starter and the ground wire bolts to the engine block.
yes a hot wire can kill a cardinal.
You can hot wire a boat. It just matters what type it is.
the black wire is the hot wire
The Renault car does not come with a hot wired car horn. However, you can splice the wire and hot wire the horn yourself.
Get a hot key that looks like a wire, insert into ignition and turn
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.
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.