Glad to see and hear you are back in working order.... thank you for letting us know... good luck to you and may you have many pleasurable travels... I myself depart from Georgia on friday to see grandchildren in Oregon...
Maybe this will help... in your house a three prong plug has a round hole for ground. The wider receptacle blade is neutral... the narrower flat receptacle is hot... this is so you cannot put the wider (neutral prong) of a polarized appliance into th...
In your original post you describe an open (non conductive) situation with ground and neutral...and a closed (conductive) between hot and ground... this is opposite of what should be the case... neutral and ground can be conductive or bolted directly...
Even if you were correct... he would close neutral white and ground green at the point he plugged in... the problem here is that hot black is finding a direct short to ground or neutral... be it the plug repair, or the cable, or black against white a...
