quick wiring Q

[boardsportsrule]

ok on a wall socket there is something like: (ignore th dot's amdforums doesnt hold many spaces, making sure it doesn't look to funky)


|........|

....O....


now, i have a green, white, and black wire, im in the USA so what goes where, i think that

black........white
|...................|


..........O.........
.......green



but that's just becuase i guess alot...plz lmk what the correct ones are...thanks

 

[Disarray]

Actually the plug looks like this:

| ........ |
|

...... 0

One side of the receptical is longer than the other side. The white wire goes on the long side, the black wire on the short side and the green or bare wire to the round connector.

 

[boardsportsrule]

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!YYYYYYYYYYYAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! thanks!

 

[tim_m]

btw, the forum has the [ code] tags which keep your spaces so if you want to create some ascii art or anything, you can pre make it in notepad then copy it into the reply box

 

[boardsportsrule]

ahha! thanks