AC polarisation. Does it matter?


I just realised that most of my cords switch from positive to negative and negative to positive from the male end of my cords to the iec's Does this matter? The two cords that are correct are the cord to my CDP and the cord to my tuner but the cord to my Hydra which feeds the whole system is reversed. I was just wondering if this is an issue or very minor if an issue at all.
Thanks for your help.
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Showing 1 response by whoaru99

You need to be sure all the outlets are wired correctly; do not reverse wiring in the outlets to correct for downsteam issues with your cables/gear.

Once you are sure about the outlets, you can work on the rest to get them all straighted out. My .02 is that you would want "polarity" to be the same on all gear.

As far as checking the wiring, one of the plug-in testers from a hardware store (~$5.00) is all you need.