Q:I am replacing a regular light switch with a more fashionable looking design. When I took out the old light switch there was a red and a black wire attached. I am used to white and black. Which wire is considered the white wire when I am wiring this switch?

Switches don't require a neutral (white wire) One of these wires is hot..the other feeds the fixture. Attach to the terminals of the switch. More than likely if you look into the box you will see the white wires maretted together for continuity return

Q:do speakers function better with thick or thin wires??

thicker wires for sure because the bigger wire carries more juice 2 ur speakers....if ur wiring amps use 6 gauge or bigger if ur wiring speakers us at least 16 gauge but don't go much bigger than 14 gauge cuz it gives too much juice to regular speakers

Q:I'm trying to install a ceiling fan and I'm looking for some help given my home's wiring. I have a single light switch in the room, and here's what's coming out of the ceiling: 2 white wires, 2 black wires and a ground wire. It seems like a set of white and black originate from the same location (in both cases). My celing fan with light has a remote connection, so there's one black, one white and one ground wire coming from my fan to connect to the ceiling. Can someone let me know how to hook it up so the fan and light both work? Thanks in advance.

I hope you made notes of which wires were attached to the light you took down. Just wire the fan/light assembly in place of the light. One set of those wires is from the switch, the other is from power. You forgot to do that? OK, here's what I would do in this case. Get your self a 'Volt Stick'. This is a small probe that looks like a carpenters pencil that lights up when it is placed next to an energized wire. Best $20.00 you'll spend if your planning on doing anything with electrical wiring. Disconnect and spread the wires apart from each other. Use the Voltstick to find out which of the wires coming from the ceiling is 'hot' (supplying power to the light). Mark this wire and turn off the breaker. This should be paired with one of the white wires, mark that one as well. This is your return wire. The other two should be to the switch. Test this by hooking the black source wire to the white switch wire. Now turn the breaker on. If the breaker doesn't kick out right away then you can check (using the Voltstick) if there is any power to the second black wire. Turn the switch to the next position and see if there is a change. There should have been. This proves that the power going to the switch is interupted when the switch is thrown. Any other result means that your place is wired weird and you may need the help of a professional. So to hook up your fan/light, you are going to attach the black source wire to the black switch wire, the white source wire to your white fan wire, the white switch wire to your black fan wire, and the green wire to your green fan wire.

Q:I recently got a new dishwasher. My hubby and I are in the middle of installing, and are to the point of hooking it back up to the electricity. The cord that we have has 2 black wires, one is smooth the other ribbed, then on the dishwasher, we have a black, white, and green(ground). Which wires do I hook up to which?(cord) black smooth black ribbed (dishwasher)blackwhitegreen(ground)

It sounds like you are trying to use a regular lamp extension cord to hook up your dishwasher. Is the other end of the cord hardwired to the source? Or does it have a standard 110V plug on it? I thought that most were wired with a #12/2 w/grd romex to a 20A breaker black is hot, white is neutral, and green is ground. You need another cord with the right amount of wires and size wires. good luck

Q:I am replacing a 2 wire circuit for a fan/light combo with a 3 wire fan/light combo switch. I ran a new 12/2 w/grnd to the switch box. I ran a 12/3 w/grnd to the ceiling box for the fan. I have a ceiling fan and light control switch that control light and fan separately. I can't figure out which wires go to what.

To make that easy to understand we take fan as light and to turn on the fan you need one neutral wire one hot wire and one ground wire.Switch is a cut circuit device which will install in hot wire(simple circuit).If already it's wired you will have 4 connected wires in the light box which one of the hot wires and neutrals are directly to the light and separate from other wires,(BLACK AND WHITE) so connect them to the fan wires as same color and if you see green wire in fan connect it to the ground(COPPER). Now 3-way wiring is using 2 control for fan. 3-way switch has 3 entry 2on top and 1 in bottom (COMMON) SHOT DOWN POWER FIRST then: 1- connect main hot to first switch (TOP LEFT) 2-connect free hot wire 3/12(RED)to the (COMMON) 3- connect BLACK hot to (TOP RIGHT) 4-connect neutral to neutral and ground to ground 5-send 12/3 after connecting as above to the fan box. 6-IN other switch with another 3/12 wire connect BLACK to (TOP LEFT) 7-connect RED to (TOP RIGHT) 8-Connect WHITE to (COMMON)and by wire tape put a black sign to white wire as return HOT. 9-Send that wire to fan box . A-NOW in fan box connect RED TO RED and BLACK TO BLACK . B-connect NEUTRAL from first switch to the fan neutral wire C-connect all the ground to gather. D-connect WHITE wire from second switch to the BLACK wire of the fan and put the black tape on it to separate that from neutral wire. Before close the switches turn on power and try both switch to make sure one will turn off and another will turn on and opposite.

Q:What exactly is 6 AWG stranded grounding wire usually used for?

In a nutshell: a) Verify that your service drop has the capacity for the additional load - verify this with your utility. b) If you are planning to install a 200A service in the barn, and you are planning to bury the wire, you will need to use 3-0 wire in a conduit. Use separate conductors. Check with your local electrical inspector, but I do not believe you will need to run a separate ground within the conduit for this application. The code may have changed, however. c) You will need to install a 200A fused safety-switch at the pole, and a new 200A panel in the barn. d) The barn panel will also have a 200A main disconnect breaker in it. e) You will need to install an additional ground-rod (or rods) at the barn panel. 1. DO NOT use old/used wire. 2. Consider running triplex wire overhead as it will be less expensive and equally effective. 3. Get the work inspected by an underwriter - your fire insurance will be voided if you do not. Lastly, it is not rocket science, but the codes and standards that apply are there for a reason - follow them carefully and fully and you will be fine.

Q:What does the wire do for braces? What happens if you pull it out and everything else it ok?

The wire is like a train track and the teeth are the cars. Get rid of the track and the cars go off course. Wire is what is putting everything in place.

Q:the wires are all cut off. which 2 do i connect and which is which and what is what?

i have a 1989 ford escort the wiring for all is the same red is hot black is ground maybe with a white stripe

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Q:Electron flow in a conducting wire.?I have some confusion regarding the flow of electrons in a wire when voltage is applied across it. Intuitively, i see that when i apply voltage across the ends of the wire say by a battery. The voltage pushes the electrons in the wire. As, a result the electrons flow in straight direction rather than going zig-zag. Some of the electrons reach the positive terminal of the battery, now my query is what happens when the electrons reach the positive terminal.Do they loose all their energy? Also, how is there a constant flow of electrons in the wire because since electrons are flowing constantly from the negative to the positive, is there no instance all the free electrons in the wire have reached the positive terminal? Basically what i mean to say is do the free electrons ever gets extinct? I am sorry if my question sounds stupid but can anyone please explain me a little bit in a conceptual manner?

Well, the wire is connected to a voltage source. When they leave the positive terminal, they go through the wire, then get to the negative terminal. They then flow through the voltage source and back into the wire.