re a question about vac outlet wiring olsen vetmed cvm uiuc edu aart olsen writes 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 this is contrary to the electrical code and should be fixed sorry but this is exactly according to the nec no need to be sorry i blew it on this one at the main breaker box where there is a thick wire ground leading to the earth both neutral and ground are hooked to this bus in any other breaker box or an outlet box etc the ground and neutral must not be connected together
