To isolate hot terminals
Dirty connection
The voltage across the two hot terminals on the back of a GE dryer should be 240 volts nominal in North America.
Answer for USA, Canada and countries running a 60 Hertz supply service.Need to know the voltage of the outlet plug. On a 120 volts outlet there is one hot terminal and on a 240 volt outlet there are two hot terminals.
Typically, you will want to keep batteries from getting too hot or too cold as they could explode, crack, or become damaged.
No, AC outlets do not have positive and negative terminals like DC outlets. AC outlets have hot and neutral terminals, with the hot being the live current-carrying wire and the neutral being the return path for the current.
A 3-way light switch has two hot terminals. One hot terminal is connected to the power source, and the other hot terminal is connected to either the light fixture or another 3-way switch in the circuit.
No, it will just trip the breaker as you have a dead short.
For an electric water heater on alternating current, there is not 'positive' or 'negative'. There should be terminals labeled hot and neutral, though.
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Tropical Marine,but in some areas tropical continental.Basically,Hot and humid,or hot and dry.
Stride-Rite Corp. makes Street Hot footware