OT for a sec: US wiring sources of info

[Charles E. Fox]

At 10:26 AM 10/7/2005, you wrote:

>One for the US members... any idea of a good usenet resource for 
>questions relating to US wiring / electrics? (I'm thinking an 
>equivalent to uk.d-i-y)
>
>We've got a cable decoder box here that trips out the house breakers 
>when plugged into certain outlets - irrespective of whether it's via 
>a surge protector (probably not surprising there) or of what other 
>loads might be sharing the same wiring to that outlet.
>
>It works fine in other outlets though, which seems like a strange 
>problem - but I have no idea how US houses are wired (and the wiring 
>in this place is ancient anyway!)
>
>Be nice to get it sorted out as the cable box currently requires a 
>cable trailing across the lounge from an outlet in another room!
>
>cheers
>
>Jules

         In a modern grounded system, green goes to the grounding 
pin,  white is common or neutral and goes to the longest of the 
parallel slots, and black is hot, and goes to the short parallel slot.

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