"RBM" rbm2(remove wrote in message
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No, it has already gone through a resistor. It's a return seeking its
neutral or ground to complete its circuit, and this fella needs to
understand that if he gets in between it he's going to get hurt.

Sure, it has been through a resistor (or at least a load of some kind...) so
why isn't it still a hot?
Take a 240v motor. It has three wires; 2 hots and a neutral. A hot goes to
a winding and then to the neutral. When it comes off the winding it is not
a neutral, it is simply a hot that has gone through the winding.

This is hair splitting; we certainly agree that the wire, whatever it is
called, is potentially dangerous. But, I think it is still properly called
a hot.