 Hey guys, it is me. I'm back. I was away all weekend. So that's why you didn't hear much from me I just posted a couple Blog posts and stuff so you might want to check that out at the electric Academy comm but I ran into an interesting issue that I ran into last week and I thought I would share it with you guys and Here's what happened. Let me just share my screen with you guys. I'll get cut right to the chase here I'm gonna go like this and we're gonna call up This guy over here, oops That's not what I'm calling up. That's right. You don't need to see my email. Here's the situation I had a light and let's say that this blue wire here is actually white So that's my neutral my hot and then I've got our switch legs Sorry, and then I've got my ground down comes down here onto the switch down and off it goes Now here's what happened this guy here had the marette or the wire nut or wherever you want to call it come off the guy who is talking to you said that he was in the box so consider there's a box around this and He touched the ground somehow and this and got a nasty belt off it He claims it was quite it really really painful. So then what he did was he had a cheap meter He took the meter and measured from this point here to ground and read 120 volts So to him that seemed weird and I agreed it was weird because to me that tells me that there's an open neutral somewhere And that's very dangerous. That's why we don't switch our neutrals now. I'll show you why in a second I'll show you a little schematic I've come up with but if you're reading like this is your grounded conductor right not your grounding conductor But it's called a grounded conductor your neutral goes all the way back to the panel and is grounded at the panel So its potential from this point and this point should be zero volts It should not have the same potential at all so when you start reading a hundred and twenty volts off it From this point your neutral to your ground something's wrong and what ended up happening is we looked into it is the receptacle That was down here the neutral again had come off So this guy had no return path Which means that the voltage potential here here and here was all going to be the same now Let me show you what I mean by that Let me just call up my preview here and go to my window and We'll go open switch Now with this one you've got this side to be a neutral because it's grounded right then I've got my hot coming through here Let's say this switch is closed and I have my hot going through there Across this whether it's a resistor or a light bulb or whatever is doing some work and it goes to its ground So that's a good sense because if I open this up and I want to work on this There's no potential there because if I'm grounded I'm the same potential as that and I'm safe right So that's a good thing now what happened in the situation my buddy was in Let's go with the open neutrals at this one Nope, let's go with the open switch That's not it. Sorry and open neutral one This is the one is the situation that happened here is you he opened up the neutral So if you look here if he's grounded which he did because he touched the ground wire There's potential here and there's still going to be potential there's not doing anything because it doesn't have a closed loop But if he touches that he becomes part of the loop and the current wants to go through him So that's why it's dangerous and why we never ever ever switch the neutral side very important So again if you run into an issue Where they're telling you that they got a belt off the neutral and you read a voltage at the neutral here to ground And it's a hundred and twenty volts You know something's wrong and that's something downstream or upstream of this thing has got its neutral disconnected Open neutrals are a big hazard and you've got a watch for them. All right, so that's kind of what I wanted to talk about Let me just call this up What I wanted to talk about today and get that out of the way Just one second. I'll just call out my screen here. Sorry. There we go. So watch out for that open neutral I'm sure some of you guys have run into these things and they can give you nasty belts I got one off a washing machine once or no dryer. No, it was washing machine That wasn't good for the dryer. The dryer would be 240. That would really hurt But yeah, let me know if you guys run into this issue the crazy stuff that you see there's so many weird things that happen Again while I'm on the topic and I talked about this yesterday in this little preview to this Make sure you go and check out that video of the guy who's got the meter and he pulled the meter out But he sells a voltage on his ground that one was bizarre as well so worth well worth watching and That's that so you might notice that my background is a little different than normal. I'm not in my house I'm not hiding in the closet. I am back to work teaching got my first class today and As always are super quiet, but I hope to break them of the hat as we go. So That's where I'll be you'll probably be seeing me a lot from our my pod cat or podcast video streams They're gonna be after 2 o'clock because I'm teaching till 2 15 So just so you know for you guys in the east coast that probably about 5 36, which works out well for you Let me know if there's anything you guys want me to talk about again watch out for that open neutral reason why we don't switch the neutral reason why we switch the hot and Keep your eye open for different posts. I posted a couple blogs today I posted a blog on how to make your money last a little bit longer. Hey Tim So you wanted it's money-saving tips or apprentices, but honestly it could go a long ways for the journey people out there as well Especially stuff on credit cards and buying things with money You don't have that's just my thing and these guys are in my class now We're gonna hear a lot about that when we start talking about percentages and compounding interests this week So keep that in mind that might be something I'm talking about But if there's anything you guys want me to talk about let me know This is gonna be a quick one because I've just got to get some paperwork done here I let my class go and I got a bunch of photocopying and some paperwork. I got to enter so hey, no, thank you Scott appreciate it So yeah, I know I'm beating a dead horse here But let me know what you want me to talk about because I'm getting lots of good emails lots of good feedback from you guys All right, so again if you missed this make sure you go back and watch the replay I will post it keep it posted on Facebook. I'll probably post it on YouTube as well I think it's a really important topic. Do not switch that neutral watch over that open neutral causes weird things from happening like I said when I was in a hotel a few months ago also in all the lights went dim and Some of the circus didn't work Well, that was because we actually lost the main neutral And so it wasn't a very balanced hotel load and we ended up losing that we ended up getting I didn't have my meter on Me I wish it really had my meter on me at that point, but some weird things were happening So the neutral is important and it would be best for you guys not to get a belt All right, I will see you guys probably either tomorrow or the next day after that and We'll be talking. I'll give you a heads up as to what I'm talking about So you can decide if you're gonna chime in or not have a good day I hope you guys are doing well and we will talk to you tomorrow work safe talk to you tomorrow. Bye