What happens if you mix up wires?
What happens if you mix up wires? In a home Alternating Current wires are typically colored Black carrying the Hot potential, with the neutral being White. Mixing these up can get someone hurt, possibly. But other than that it will run fine, till the next person plays with the wires or plugs a defective appliance into it. Can you change live neutral wires? If you swap live and neutral which are connected to a lamp, yes it will work fine. However, the switch on the lamp is connected on the Live side. So even though you have switched the lamp...