Re: Motor run in reverse?
In causal conversation I would call it a neutral, in technical discussions like we have here on this board I call it the grounded conductor
Exactly! It is impossible to have a productive discussion in a forum like this if the participants are using different "languages".
How would one person know which wire the other was talking about?
Now that the subject of the definition of a neutral conductor has come up-
The adjective "Neutral" is most commonly used to denote some "thing" that is "between" at least two others, and "favoring" neither, such as a country that does not support any of the combatants in a war.
Some other examples ?
1. Someone that does not side with either party in a controversy.
2. The center ice zone in a hockey arena.
3. Not in any gear in a manual auto transmission.
A neutral conductor -
"A conductor (when one exists) of a polyphase circuit, or a single phase 3-wire circuit, which is intended to have a voltage such that the voltage differences between it and two or more ungrounded conductors are approximately equal in magnitude and equally spaced in phase."
Ed