FullySprinklered
In the Trades
I was troubleshooting a dead circuit in an upstairs bedroom today. The ceiling fan/light was not working, nor were the lights in the adjacent bathroom. The outlets in the bedroom showed " Hot-Ground Reversed" on my plug-in outlet tester.
I opened several boxes looking for obvious problems, and found nothing. For a while I was getting a good beep on my stick tester on a white wire from the c/f while the black wires were disconnected.
After randomly reconfiguring some of the connections in the switch box for the c/f, things started working and I put everything back with a new stack switch for the c/fan. Pretty much ended up with things the way they were when I got there, except everything was now working.
Here's the question: if the ground and the hot were really and truly reversed, shouldn't I at least be blessed with a shower of sparks? Maybe a tripped breaker. A smoldering ruin in the subdivision?
Any thoughts?
I opened several boxes looking for obvious problems, and found nothing. For a while I was getting a good beep on my stick tester on a white wire from the c/f while the black wires were disconnected.
After randomly reconfiguring some of the connections in the switch box for the c/f, things started working and I put everything back with a new stack switch for the c/fan. Pretty much ended up with things the way they were when I got there, except everything was now working.
Here's the question: if the ground and the hot were really and truly reversed, shouldn't I at least be blessed with a shower of sparks? Maybe a tripped breaker. A smoldering ruin in the subdivision?
Any thoughts?