ground, neutral, hot {, hot}

[John Frum]

For the people that do enough electrical wiring that its muscle memory.
What order do you connect the individual wires?
Not that I do a lot of it but I do ground, neutral, hot.
In that order.

I noticed today that a Xantrex inverter/charger manual I was looking at today has the 3 wire wago connectors layed out.
left=neutral
middle=ground
right=hot

It looked weird for a second and I wondered if the natural tendency to go left-right might conflict with the safe practice of ground, neutral, hot in that order.
BTW totally not unrelated, I made big sparks twice today.
I can see why they do it.
Is it a standard?
Is it common?

If you read this far....
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[nwillitts]

if it is not hot,why would it matter?

 

[John Frum]

if it is not hot,why would it matter?

I see that it doesn't, I feel a bit silly now.
I think it was the gummy bears talking.

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[DThames]

Ground, in some cases can be a local ground rod, earth ground to short the chassis to ground so you don't have to. Neutral will be connected to ground back at your main panel. While neutral (edited) may seem to be "ground" it is a current return path and even without having active current flow, it can be different than the local ground. So be sure to put ground to ground and neutral to neutral.

 

[John Frum]

Ground, in some cases can be a local ground rod, earth ground to short the chassis to ground so you don't have to. Neutral will be connected to ground back at your main panel. While neutral (edited) may seem to be "ground" it is a current return path and even without having active current flow, it can be different than the local ground. So be sure to put ground to ground and neutral to neutral.

Cool ancillary information.

 

[nwillitts]

i think he meant which one to hook up first.

 

[John Frum]

if it is not hot,why would it matter?

I remember what I meant now.
I wonder if people may inadvertently reverse ground and neutral when connecting the xantrex inverter/charger.

 

[DThames]

i think he meant which one to hook up first.

I miss things sometimes. I went off on "....would it matter"

 

[Supervstech]

I cannot think of a reason the order would matter, as long as it is hooked up to the correct conductors...

But an unfamiliar order could cause confusion in a hurry... so DON’T be in a hurry with electrical...