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The fan won t know if you mixed the wires. In the most basic 110 volt electrical setup you ll find two wires.
The motor might run backwards but still as a rule of thumb black on black white on white.
Black and white electrical wires. Remember black and red wires are always hot meaning they are source wires that carry power from the electric service panel to a destination such as an outlet or a light. White wires augmented with red or black tape or markings are used as hot. However a black wire can never be used as a neutral or ground wire or for any purpose other than to carry a live electrical load.
The black wire nominally measures 120v ac rms relative to the white wire and therefore earth ground real dirt. This is typically called the hot wire. In most of the rest of the world this is called the live wire if you touch a hot wire you very likely will receive a shock.
The black wire will be your hot wire and your whites are neutral depending on your switch setup you can wire nut the blacks together with an extra piece of wire coming from the wire nut to connect the hot to the light as well as the same method with your white wires. In the most basic 110 volt electrical setup you ll find two wires. The black wire is hot.
The white wire goes by many names that all mean the same thing. Neutral common or return. Power flows from the box to the outlet through the black wire and back to the box through the white one.
The neutral wire can also be gray. Sometimes you ll find a white wire with a piece of black electrical tape wrapped around it. Black and white electrical wires.
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When a white wire is augmented with a red or black color marking this often indicates that it is being used as a hot wire rather than a neutral wire. Typically this is indicated with a band of black or red electrical tape but other colors may be used wrapped around the wire s insulation. Canadian wiring is governed by the cec canadian electric code.
The protective ground is green or green with yellow stripe. The neutral is white the hot live or active single phase wires are black and red in the case of a second active. Three phase lines are red black and blue.
Canada ac power circuit wiring. Identify the black positive wire on a ceiling light fixture. When you re hanging a chandelier or any other ceiling light first find the 3 wires coming out of the hole in the ceiling where the light will go.
Recognize that the black wire is the positive one the white wire is the negative one and the green wire is the ground. The fan won t know if you mixed the wires. The motor might run backwards but still as a rule of thumb black on black white on white.
Now if you were to cross the wires in the main lines it would throw a breaker for sure and many times in people s homes i myself have run into people crossing the wires using the white for hot black for neutral.