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In AC, the neutral can still kill you. Chassis are never wired to neutral. You would die. They are wired to ground.
by sudosysgen 4y ago
In AC, the neutral can still kill you. Chassis are never wired to neutral. You would die. They are wired to ground.
- krallja 4y agoOops, I misunderstood the issue. The problem with the hot/neutral swap is that the switch and fuse are both on neutral in either scenario (defective cable with correct device, or defective device with correct cable). Thus the device is still connected to hot if the fuse blows.
- bityard 4y agoPedantic note: neutral is only dangerous when something has gone very wrong, which is why nowadays we have a separate, redundant neutral that we call the ground wire. In the breaker panel, neutral and ground are connected to the same bus bar and are, electrically-speaking, the same thing.