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    mahmoud945 Posts: 1, Reputation: 1
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    Jun 3, 2012, 04:03 PM
    Plug with black and white hot wires
    In my bathroom I have plug that has both white and black hot wire. What is the problem?
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    Jun 3, 2012, 04:10 PM
    Can only guess with limited info and not sure what you are calling a "plug". If it is actually wires in a junction type box, it is possibly a black hot wire and a white switch leg (maybe with a section of black tape around the white wire to indicate that it also a hot wire).
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    Jun 3, 2012, 05:26 PM
    If you are measuring voltage, you will get 120 between black and white, between black and ground and 0 between white and ground. Is this what you are measuring?
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    Jun 4, 2012, 04:04 AM
    Where are you located?

    Have you measured the voltage? What is the voltage?

    How are you determining the black and white is hot?
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