HeyBub wrote:
G Wood wrote:
OK, no troll, I'm confused.

If you have two outlets on a circuit, and outlet one has hot wired to
neutral, would it not make sense that the downstream plug will also
have juice at the neutral side as well?
Or are you implying that it just really isn't an issue when plugging
something into either outlet?


If one outlet can have the lines switched, a downstream outlet can have them
switched again.

Two prongs make a right.


As long as they match colors on the sides of the outlets, if one is
miswired, the downstream ones can still be okay. If they cross colors at
an upstream outlet, you are screwed. When I replaced about 16 2-holers
with 3-holers here (grounded metal boxes, grounded romex, luckily),
about half were polarity-reversed 'as found'. No apparent pattern, or
effect from one box to next. Just made sure they all had the same color
wires on the same color screws, and the little 3-prong idiot meter
happily lit up green on all of them.

aem sends....