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Replacing an electircal outlet (receptacle) that might have been wired wrong?
I was plugging in my TV and game systems into an electrical outlet that worked fine last year, when suddenly all of the power from that outlet stopped. I checked the breakers, and they are all fine, so then I decided to take the receptacle out. The receptacle was a three-hole one, with two brass screws on the right and two silver screws on the left. There is also a green screw on the bottom-left.
The only two wires that were wired to it were two black wires, one connected to the top-right brass screw and the other to the top-left silver screw. The other silver screw was connected to the green screw via a short wire. Looking at some diagrams online, I’m not sure if that receptacle was wired correctly, although it did work for quite a while. How should I go about re-wiring a new receptacle to it, seeing as I’m not sure if those two black wires are two hot wires, or just one hot and one neutral. Thanks!
TRY to remember which black wire was connected to the silver/brass screws. Having two black wires would tell me that its an older house/older wiring. Does the green wire run with the two black wires or is it just two black wires? The color of wiring should be GREEN to green screw, WHITE to silver screw and BLACK to brass screw. Since both wires are black, make sure the wire that was connected to the brass screw goes to the brass screw and the other black wire that went to the silver screw goes to the silver screw. P.S. Make sure the power to that receptacle is off or you will jet a shock.
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