WorthFlorida
Clinical Trail 5th session completed 4/24/24.
With electric, NEVER assume anything. I'm getting loud since fire and death can result from poor electrical work and miss understanding. Anyone answering question especially electrical questions, must be to code and never suggest short cuts or assumptions.Thanks for the valuable information. Can we conclude, based on the multimeter, that the red is hot and the two black are neutral and ground shoved in together?
No! one black wire is the neutral from the breaker panel and the other feeds the next outlet. The second red wire goes thought this electrical box and that is another circuit going to another outlet or light. The black wire in this case is a "shared neutral" not a ground. You do not have any ground wires.
Look closely and there are two different size wires. The feed wires looks like 12 or 10 gauge and the second red and the one black wire at the outlet to the next outlet is looks like 14 or 12 gauge.
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