I have a clothes dryer which I inhereted. It has been working fine for years until I moved it and the plug virtually fell to pieces (the earth was the worst). When I put on a new plug I realised that somebody had connected the live to the Earth connection, The Earth to the Neutral and the Neutral to the live pin!! How did this ever work? There is about 6v between neutral and earth (last time I measured in the UK) and the earth was the live! When I swapped teh wires it worked fine too.
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16 years ago