Jpflex
Electrician big leagues
- Location
- Victorville
- Occupation
- Electrician commercial and residential
back when I was a young lad apprentice for residential wiring, I knew to wire black to feed a black wire of a fan and white to white. However, I always wondered what would happen if this were reversed but never tried it. Would the fan spin in reverse if the branch circuit black hot wire were connected to the fan white neutral wire and white branch circuit neutral wire to fan black lead?
My boss years ago said the house could catch fire if wires were reversed but I told him I did not believe him because AC current inherently reverses direction in a circuit (60 hertz cycles).
I do know that areas of equipment that would normally connect to a neutral would have line voltage if reversed such as a lamp holder bulb threads which may be hazardous to the installer but still would illuminate the bulb
My boss years ago said the house could catch fire if wires were reversed but I told him I did not believe him because AC current inherently reverses direction in a circuit (60 hertz cycles).
I do know that areas of equipment that would normally connect to a neutral would have line voltage if reversed such as a lamp holder bulb threads which may be hazardous to the installer but still would illuminate the bulb