** Yesterday I went to a Home Depot store (here in the United States)
and looked at new, mains-entrance circuit-breaker boxes. The neutral and
ground terminal strips are machined from the same piece of metal, so that
one does not need to buswire them together.
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>>R. Measures wrote:
>>>
>>>>...
>>>>Even your 85 ma that you are running on your common ground/neutral line
>>>>can be a hazard. If the ground/neutral line opens anywhere you will have
>>>>120 volts at chassis through the transformer primary with enough current
>>>>to cause electrocution if you are between chassis and some other ground.
>>>>
>>>
>>> ** Providing this person was standing in water.
>>>
>>
>>No water necessary. Moderately sweaty palms will more than suffice.
>>
>** Putting the radio in the bedroom is probably not a good idea, Gary.
>>...
>>>
>>> ** In my General Electric Co. box there is one common strip for all of
>>> the neutral and ground wires
>>
>>It must be a VERY old box.
>>
>** In a new box with a separate ground bus and a separate neutral bus,
>the two busses would have to be bus-wired together to be according to
>Code.
>>>
>>>
>>>>There is good reason for it.
>>>
>>>
>>> ** Apparently, GE did not think so.
>>
>>They do now! You can't buy one that doesn't have two separate busses.
>>
>** which must be retro-wired to gether, of course. Why?
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