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brock_lee t1_jacn1jo wrote

Well it certainly sounds like they switched to neutral wire rather than the hot wire. But the colors in your picture confuse me. Is this the US?

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kraizy420 OP t1_jacn4qm wrote

Yeah, suburbs of chicago

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brock_lee t1_jacnln0 wrote

Yeah I think the electrician is in order. It kind of looks like there's two neutral wires on the outlet and then they connected a hot wire and a neutral wire somewhere, so when you plug in the tester it actually is completing the circuit which is really not good.

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PowerfulFunny5 t1_jacsg2j wrote

Ahh, where local code requires conduit. (Instead of allowing Romex)

I might be seeing a grey wire and a white wire, so there might be the intent that grey is hot and white is neutral, but an electrician should check.

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LunaticScientist t1_jad0qe6 wrote

Assuming this is an older house, it likely had old cloth Romex which would've needed a conduit to conduct ground if plumbing was not near. The red/gray/black combo looks like it was updated at some point.

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