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To: exDemMom
...saving me the trouble of figuring out which is the positive wire and which is the negative every time ...

For lawn sprinkler systems, black=hot, white=ground=common; usually.

387 posted on 09/29/2005 7:45:39 PM PDT by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch ist der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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To: Doctor Stochastic; exDemMom
For lawn sprinkler systems, black=hot, white=ground=common; usually.

Just remember that if you get it wrong, it'll kill you and your entire family. Cheers!

393 posted on 09/29/2005 8:12:22 PM PDT by general_re ("Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith, but in doubt." - Reinhold Niebuhr)
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To: Doctor Stochastic
For lawn sprinkler systems, black=hot, white=ground=common; usually.

Hmm. I thought green was ground? At least, when I'm changing out a light switch, the bare copper wire (isn't that the ground?) gets attached to the green screw. Oh, well. As long as everything is color coded, I'm fine.

413 posted on 09/30/2005 5:15:18 AM PDT by exDemMom (Now that I've finally accepted that I'm living a bad hair life, I'm more at peace with the world.)
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