On Wed, 1 Nov 2000 THETechnoid_at_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_at_brouhaha.com>, on 11/01/00
> at 06:15 PM, Eric Smith <eric_at_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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