Yes. The switch should be on the hot, not the neutral, wire. It’s a safety thing. A switch will work on the hot or the neutral, but if you switch the neutral, the light fixture is still electrically live even with the switch turned off.
Can 2 lighting circuits share a neutral?
as long as the phase conductors are on different “phases” it’s fine. Recent code requires them to be on a double pole breaker though. I do it as much as possible in houses. It’s easier to pull one three wire for two circuits, than 2 separate two wires.
Can lights share a neutral?
1 Answer. Show activity on this post. If not, no. If one circuit breaker turns off all three lights, then they are on the same circuit and you should be good to go.
Can you put 2 neutral wires together?
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Quote from Youtube video: So what you want to do is you want to twist them just enough. So that they can be joined. Together so let's just go ahead and twist them together just.
Can neutrals be tied together?
Even if you meet that condition, you still cannot tie 2 or more #12 neutrals together. Nowadays you also have the fact that tying neutrals of different circuits together will mean tripped AFCI breakers and the time lost troubleshooting them.
Can two lights share a ground?
There is no problem with joining the two Grounds together. Just make sure that the ground you connect it too has sufficient current capacity but nearly every ground wire in the vehicle will be able to carry the current required for two lights.
How do you fix a shared neutral?
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Quote from Youtube video: Then locate the shared neutrals in the electrical box and remove the wire connectors that splicing them all together then separate and identify each circuits to neutral conductors.
Can you daisy chain neutral?
Yes, you can and it will work. Ultimately this is your home, you know the reccemended way is to join them all up at the same point and not jump from switch to switch.
How many hot wires can share a neutral?
two hot wires
(Basically, two hot wires are sharing a neutral wire.)
Why are there two hot and two neutral wires?
The reason for multiple hot/neutral wires for one outlet is that the outlets are daisy-chained together. This means hot/neutral is only coming from one of the wires and it is being sent to the other wire.
What happens if you connect 2 hot wires?
Two hots of same circuit – nothing should happen.
How do you wire a light fixture with two sets of wires?
Connect the lead wires from the fixture to the black hot wire in the electrical box by twisting a wire connector to the ends of the lead and hot wires. Repeat these connections with the two white neutral wires from the light fixture and the white neutral wire in the light fixture box.
Why would my neutral wire be hot?
If the neutral is disconnected anywhere between the light bulb and the panel, then the neutral from the light to the point of the break in the neutral will become hot (and the device will be unpowered, because no current will be flowing through it). Look for a disconnected neutral.
Can you get shocked from a neutral wire?
The neutral wire does have current going through it. However, we do not get shocked when we touch something with current going through it, we get shocked when current goes through us.
Should the neutral wire have voltage?
The neutral wire is often said to have zero voltage on it. If you touch that wire on a live system, however, you will often find out very quickly that technically having zero voltage is very different from meaning there is no electricity present.
Why does my neutral wire have 120 volts?
3 Answers. Show activity on this post. If you have a neutral wire removed from the neutral bus bar in your panel it is possible to see 120VAC on that wire if the circuit breaker for that circuit is turned on and there is a load connected to the circuit and load device is also turned on.
What happens if neutral and live touch?
In an electric iron being used in a household, the plastic insulation of live wire and neutral wire in the connecting cable gets torn. Due to this, naked live wire touches the naked neutral wire directly and the electric fuse of the circuit blows off.
Can an open neutral cause a fire?
A loose/cut neutral is one of the leading causes of house fires. When neutral is cut there can be large arcs and the full 240 VAC across the two hots swings through the lowest resistance device to ground on each leg and either shorts it or burns it open. Then it swings to the next lowest resistance device and so on.
