[TheForge] Subject: Re: shop power

[CGRAF]

It would have blown the fuse probably.
My whole shop was wired with the switches on the neutral. WAY back they 
did it that way. It is very common on buildings wired before about 1920. 
I am told that it was done because the knife type contacts in the switch 
arced on the hot side. This killed the switches and was also a fire 
hazard. My building also originally had fuses on both the hot and 
neutral sides .

Mike Graf


On 8/3/2012 11:25 AM, Bob Ehrenberger wrote:
> When I lived in St. Louis, the previous owner had hired someone to remodle
> the basement.  When I went to add a light over my pool table I discovered
> that the whole basement was wired with the hot lead going to the lights and
> the switch on the neutral comming back. To make things worse they made
> provisions to add a light later by putting a wire in the suspended ceiling
> wired the same way, it was not even capped or taped. I hate to think what
> would have happened if that wire had touched the frame grid of the ceiling.
>
> Robert Ehrenberger
> Shelbyville, Mo.
> eforge at centurytel.net
>
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