Stupid AC wiring question (220-ish Volts...)

Josh Dersch derschjo at gmail.com
Fri Feb 6 00:55:30 CST 2015


On 2/5/2015 9:53 PM, Brent Hilpert wrote:
> On 2015-Feb-05, at 9:22 PM, Josh Dersch wrote:
>>
>> OK:  Confirmed two things:  There's 240V between the two HOT terminals at the outlet, and the ground appears to be grounded (I get continuity between the ground on the nearby 120V outlet (which I know is properly grounded) and the neutral terminal of the 240V outlet.)
>>
>> So it looks like I should be good to go here.  One last question -- does it matter which hot wire goes to which terminal in this case?
> Nope.

Thanks for the help (to you and everyone else who chimed in!) -- I wired 
it up and plugged it in and it came to life quite nicely!  All 
self-tests pass as evidenced by the below photo:

http://yahozna.dyndns.org/scratch/dap/selftest.jpg

Looks like I'll invest in a 240V outlet or two.  Can't wait to get it to 
do something useful (for some definition of 'useful'); I'm in the 
process of getting the software tapes archived (thanks to the help of a 
local QIC expert) but once that's done...

Thanks again,
Josh



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