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Well, I was about to take your advice and change the thing when I
discovered what I had done. I put the hot on the LINE end of the
thing and the neutral on the LOAD end..... OOPS.....

Yep, stuff like that'll happen when you're potted.

I forget these are not regular outlets where it dont matter which
screw is used as long as the color codes are correct. That sure makes
it act weird. I put both wires on the LINE end and it works fine now.

By the way, I wasn't drunk.

Stop kidding yourself. Two 12-packs, and you weren't drunk? Riiiiight.

I drink a 12 pack or more every day so
it's no big deal.

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It makes routine jobs like this, more fun.

Maybe more fun for you, maybe less fun for the firefighters that pull the
bodies of your wife and kids from the charred rubble of the house that you
wired while you were drunk.

I built
my whole house myself and did it using Budweiser for fuel. The
household PMS master dont bug me as much when I am drinking. She
knows better.

I'll bet she does.

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Regards,
Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com)

It's time to throw all their damned tea in the harbor again.