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If you hooked the 2 blacks and 2 whites together and the other end was not connected and the breaker tripped, sounds like a short between hot and neutral or hot and ground.
Disconnect the white and try again. If it shorts now, then it is shorted to ground, also, if you reconnect white and disconnect thr ground and when you turn breaker on, if it trips, it is shotred to neutral. Is there anything else on that circuit or not working? |
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which means "Open Hot" but I dont really know what "open hot" means.
You should consult the directions with your tester to see what they mean by that. However, as I learned many, many years ago in engineering class, there are two types of shorts. "open" and "closed". An open short is when the wire is broken, disconnected, etc. but is not touching anything. It's an "open" circuit. A closed short... sometimes called "direct" short, means the wire in question is contacting another wire, component, etc that it shouldn't be. |
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