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In <1e66sbINN953@gap.caltech.edu> carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Carl J Lydick) writes:

>The two-prong plug is used for a circuit that's taken from one side of a
>center-tapped transformer.  The center tap is grounded.  That means that one
>side of the circuit is nominally at ground potential, while the other is "hot."
>The purpose of the polarized plugs is to allow the manufacturers of appliances 
>to know which wire is hot and which is neutral.  Armed with this information,
>the manufacturers can design the appliances so that, in the event the case
>somehow gets shorted to one of the wires, it's more likely the neutral wire to
>which it gets shorted.

I don't think you have answered his question yet.  Which is the ground?
The larger or smaller plug?
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