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Boatycall
Apr 29, 2016Explorer
What that means is one of the two wires has lost it's connection to the jack, and your jacks are trying to get a ground via the frame, which they are not meant to because to go up they use one wire for hot, but to go down, they reverse polarity on the wires and the other wire then becomes hot.
So -- you have one of the two wires disconnected. Jacks CANNOT be frame-grounded electrically. In one direction, they're trying to get a ground via the frame and work.... but in the other direction, they are now dead-shorting to the frame and causing sparks.
So -- you have one of the two wires disconnected. Jacks CANNOT be frame-grounded electrically. In one direction, they're trying to get a ground via the frame and work.... but in the other direction, they are now dead-shorting to the frame and causing sparks.
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