How to Identify Hot, Neutral and Ground Wires Using Digital Multimeter

How to Identify Hot, Neutral and Ground Wires Using Digital Multimeter

Having hard time identifying wires? Don't worry! We explain whole process on how to identify hot, neutral and ground wires using digital multimeter.

🔔 Get your tools here:

00:20 Tools needed
00:55 How to identify hot, neutral and ground wires using digital multimeter
1:59 How to find hot wire with voltage tester
2:20 How to identify wires on electrical socket
3:19 How to identify wires on light socket
3:43 How to identify wires with wires color codes

#howto #identifywires #hotneutralground

Useful electronics guides:

About Channel: Electro University was created to meet the needs of those who want to learn electronics from scratch. The company provides a number of resources for beginners, including a YouTube channel and blog with tutorials. We release new tutorials every week.

[awankawan]

I wish there is video on how to tell between neutral and ground wires . Both will show 120/240 .

[kidvision]

You never explained how to tell apart ground than neutral bad “university ”

[nayala]

I like how it was shown each contact was touched to demonstrate the common and ground and hot wires. Sometimes inference isn’t obvious. Thank you.

[acaaca]

Finally someone to record a video that simply explains the whole process.

[aleksandarkostic]

I watch you every video at least twice, they are very useful, especially tutorials with a multimeter.

[lanceuppercut]

You never showed us how to identify which one is a neutral and which one is the ground?

[travisandtracyjacobs]

Question, when touching exposed wire with multimeter, does the common lead need to be touching a ground first?

[ElectroUniversity]

Key Moments:
00:20 Tools needed
00:55 How to identify hot, neutral and ground wires using digital multimeter
1:59 How to find hot wire with voltage tester
2:20 How to identify wires on electrical socket
3:19 How to identify wires on light socket
3:43 How to identify wires with wires color codes

[squirrelattackspidy]

You can identify the hot wire but how will you know if the other wire is neutral or ground. It's one or the other but how do you know which one it is? Does it matter? Can you do this test while the wires are connected to an outlet. Like remove the outlet from the box and test the wires while they are still connected?

[jmays]

Question. I found the hot wire but not sure which of the other two is neutral and which is ground. (All 3 are the same color)