re a question about vac outlet wiring in article apr cmkrnl com jeh cmkrnl com writes in article apr ecsvax uncecs edu crisp ecsvax uncecs edu russ crisp writes i m considering modernizing some old wiring in my home and i need a little advice on outlet wiring several outlets are the old two prong type without the ground naturally the wire feeding these outlets is without the ground wire i noticed at the fusebox that some circuits have the with ground and that on these circuits the ground wire was tied to the same bus as the neutral white wire they are supposed to be connected together at the breaker panel but nowhere repeat nowhere else well almost there are strange exceptions for things like sub panels jamie hanrahan kernel mode systems san diego ca internet jeh cmkrnl com uucp uunet cmkrnl jeh cis not even in sub panels the only place the neutral should be connected to the ground is in a service disconnect in your house the main panel serves as the service disconnect sub panles in your garage or workshop for example must maintain seperate neutral and ground busses because they are not service disconnect equipment steve woodard kd kq not a licensed electrician but i can read the nec book my brother is though
