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From: ssave@ole.UUCP (Shailendra Save)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: polarity
Summary: polarity
Keywords: polarity, stupid, babooze
Message-ID: <1911@ole.UUCP>
Date: 23 Apr 91 19:52:34 GMT
References: <11864@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> <1991Apr23.125408.17745@mlb.semi.harris.com>
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Organization: Seattle Silicon Corp., Bellevue, WA.
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In article <1991Apr23.125408.17745@mlb.semi.harris.com>, jws@cica4.mlb.semi.harris.com (James W. Swonger) writes:
> Some appliances (like TVs, for instance) have a "hot chassis", i.e. the
> the chassis be attached to the neutral wire than the hot wire. Polarized

  One of the other important reasons is that the fuse/circuit breaker
is always on the neutral side, and so when it blows, the appliance is
completely isolated and no part of it is live. The other way around,
you could still get a shock.
  
				Shailendra