re a question about vac outlet wiring crichmon sedona intel com chris richmond writes well my house was built just last year and the breaker box is wired the same way all the white and ground wires are on a common bus except for the v circuits only black wires are hooked to the breakers it was the same way in the last two houses i had also are you sure this is wrong i still have the building inspector s signature on the breaker box the point is that the original poster was talking about connecting ground and neutral in the outlet box big no no and you are talking about them being connected in the breaker box as things should be if this is not obvious the point is that there should be current flow in the white i e neutral return wires when things in the house are operating there should not be any flow in the ground wires unless there is a fault condition notice also that in the breaker box there is a wire leading from the above mentioned junction to earth ground usually a pipe or spike driven into the ground tom trebisky ttrebisky as arizona edu
