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Dean Hoffman[_17_] Dean Hoffman[_17_] is offline
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Default light socket hot/neutral screw

On 11/27/20 9:41 PM, Robin McDaniel wrote:
I accidentally let the two screwed wire terminals in a socket fall out of the socket. I know that the gold one is for the hot wire and the silver is for neutral....but once they have fallen out of the socket, how do I know which slot they each properly go back into?


Your local Ace Hardware should have a cheap volt/ohmmeter. The local
auto parts store
should have some sort of circuit tester.