Well for my two cents: The hot wire in new homes is broken at the switch. However old homes that have old knob and post wiring are usually not wired that way. When I purchased this home which is a little over a 100 years old the old wiring was reversed. When the home was wired it was thought that was best to have the neutral lines broken at the switch. An electrician friend when working in older homes always removes the fuse or trips the breaker prior to working on a circuit. I have an ac detector that lets me know if there is any current in a line. It gives an audible sound. I would trip the circuit before toying with that light. Lenny ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Engebretson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, February 24, 2007 11:15 PM Subject: RE: [BlindHandyMan] Fuses and light bulbs
The faucet analogy doesn't make sense to me. A pipe feeding the faucet either has pressure or it doesn't. Light bulbs, on the other hand, have two wires leading to their plugs. One hot and one neutral. I've always heard that the neutral is the wire that is broken when a switch is thrown. Either way, if the electrician wired it so the neutral is the wire that is broken when the switch is thrown, then the hot would still be active. If the hot and anything grounded touched, there would be sparks, right? Thanks, David -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jay Williams Sent: Saturday, February 24, 2007 7:42 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Fuses and light bulbs Nothing will happen if the switch is off! It disconnects the hot side so what's there to spark? Remember, the switch comes *before the light bulb so anything you do at the location of the bult is safe. Think of the fawcet on your washbasin. If you turn off the valve that's before the fawcet on the intake pipe, than you can remove the fawcet and no water will gush. If there's no valve right there, than you would turn off the valve for the whole mains. Same here, if the only way to turn off these lights is to throw the main switch, than that's what you'd have to do. Jay ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Engebretson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, February 24, 2007 6:07 PM Subject: RE: [BlindHandyMan] Fuses and light bulbs > Oh boy, sounds scary. If I touch the outside at the same time as the inside, > will it spark and possibly blow a fuse? > > Thanks, > David > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Bill Gallik > Sent: Saturday, February 24, 2007 6:02 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Fuses and light bulbs > > > Take an electrical needle nose pliers and just latch onto the inside of the > broken bulb. 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