[Amps] Re: Neutral and ground is in how you use them (was SB-220 on 220V)

[R.Measures]

**  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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