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First of all, be careful. I don't know if hotwire is the right word to use. There is actually an interface you can purchase that will allow you to connect a generator to your home and run it off of that. If you are talking about stealing electricity, you are seriously out of luck here.
If you want to power your house during a power failure. Buy a transfer switch that will take your house completely off of the grid. If you back feed a panel and the voltage gets into the grid. You can KILL a lineman. You will be held liable for any damage you cause. Lawyers will be on your steps for years. The safe way without a switch. Is to use cords and only run what you need.
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Will a three wire cord work on a 120 to 240 volt twist-lock generator plug?
It can, but you will not have a ground wire. I have my generator hooked this way for my house for emergency power, but my neutral wire is also bonded to ground by a ground rod.
What to do with the white wire in track light with black green and white wires if the house does not have a white one?
The white is neutral. The house does have a neutral wire even though it may be black. One of those black wires is the neutral and the other is the hot wire. You will have to determine which is hot and which is neutral. You can easily do this with a voltage tester. The wire that lights the tester is the hot. When you wire the light simply wire the hot to hot, and the white and green to the other wire.
When wiring a house do you have to use the black wire as the hot wire?
No, there are different occasions when the red of a three wire cable gets used as a hot wire. There also times when the white wire gets used as a hot but has to be re identified as a hot with marking tape. When wiring baseboard heaters the cable used is red and black with no white wire in the set.
Which is the positive wire between a white and black wire?
That depends if it is automotive or household wiring. On a car a black wire is almost always ground. On house wiring black is the supply (hot) wire.That depends if it is automotive or household wiring. On a car a black wire is almost always ground. On house wiring black is the supply (hot) wire.
What is a generator made from?
Magnets and wire.
Which is hot wire black or red?
In a DC circuit, such as a car, the RED wire is usually the positive (hot) and the black wire is the negative (ground) In an AC circuit, such as your house, in the US both black and red are "hot" wires, with white being neutral.
An electrical generator works by moving a coil of wire relative to?
An electrical generator works by moving a coil of wire relative to a magnetic field.
How much wire is needed to build a cardboard generator?
10 meters of wire
How do you convert a 3 phase generator to 1 phase generator?
You cannot convert a 3 phase generator to single phase. If the generator is a 4 wire generator you can connect a single phase load between the neutral wire and any one phase wire. Just make sure the voltage of the generator and the load are the same. If you have what is known as a 12 lead generator. You can change the voltage and phase to what you need. But if it is a four wire 3 phase unit it cannot be changed. As the other poster stated.
Is the yellow wire hot or is the white wire hot?
yellow is the live or hot
What is the brown wire on my house wiring?
If you live in Europe, then the brown wire is the line ('hot') conductor; a blue wire is the neutral conductor, and a yellow/green striped wire is the protective (earth) conductor.
Do you need a neutral wire for 110v generator?
yes
