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dpb

On 1/30/2014 4:11 PM, dpb wrote:
On 1/30/2014 3:55 PM, wrote:
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but that could cause it to shorten?

No, it's a red herring to the problem.

Don't get sidetracked.

A) Did you note carefully the actual connections before you disconnected
so that you can without fail put back the original as it was? Is there
any chance you dislodged a marked wire; that is removed a piece of black
tape that wasn't actually holding anything but there to mark a white
conductor used as neutral as is allowed on certain cases where there are
insufficient wires of the proper color in a standard romex cable? If
that is so there's a chance you have the feed hooked to the carrier.
....

ERRATUM: the above was intended to read "...used as _other than_
neutral..."

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