At 01:43 PM 5/27/2004 -0400, you wrote:
>On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 12:52:41PM -0400, Bob Ammerman wrote:
> > The neutral is not available a good percentage of the time at a standard
> > single pole switch in a home. In many cases a two-wire (plus safety ground)
> > cable brings hot to the switch and switched-hot back to the load.
>
>I don't profess to be an electrician and I don't have a lot of experience.  I
>guess it shows. Every box I have in my 30+ YO home has hot, neutral and
>safety ground (SG). I'm just trying to envision a wiring diagram where only
>hot and switched hot (SH) are available in a box. I guess I can see it: hot,
>neutral, and SG come into the light fixture. A separate wire with hot and
>SH goes to the switch box. So there's three wires, but no neutral. BTW
>how is such a line (especially the white wire) supposed to be marked?

I believe you are supposed to wrap black electrical tape around the white
wire at both ends in this case.

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