1 Nov
2000
1 Nov
'00
11:06 a.m.
On Wed, 1 Nov 2000 THETechnoid(a)home.com wrote:
What ground? ;-)
I live in an older house with cloth-covered wireing and no three prong
jacks except in the laundry room, the kitchen, and the bathroom. I know,
I'll get around to rewiring, but everything has been running just great
groundlessly.
Your basement has a lot of those nifty two-piece cylindrical ceramic
wire clamps nailed amongs the joists overhead, perhaps?
- don
You don't want to walk barefoot on the slab in the
basement and touch
anything metal though.....
Regards,
Jeff
In <20001101172512.22087.qmail(a)brouhaha.com>om>, on 11/01/00
at 06:15 PM, Eric Smith <eric(a)brouhaha.com> said:
> The phase shift is 180 degrees! :-) Yes,
it's 220 VAC, center tapped
> and the center tap is tied to neutral (not ground). The neutrals aren't
> supposed to be tied to ground but a lot of people do it anyway.
Unless things are much different in Florida, the
neutral is supposed to
be tied to ground in *exactly* one place for the entire building, and
that place is at the main breaker panel. So I assume you meant that
people add additional neutral-ground connections elsewhere, which is
*bad*.
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