re a question about v so here s my question it seems to me that i d have the same electrical circuit if i hooked the neutral jumper from the neutral over to the ground screw on new three prong grounding outlets what s wrong with my reasoning here first go to the local hardware store and pick up a copy of wiring simplified by h l richter now if your house is wired with metal conduit you don t need a seperate ground wire assuming the house is wired correctly and the pipes are connected to a cold water pipe in your basement the outlets that have a neutral hooked to the ground screw seem wrong anyone else think so back in the s i was a service technician for a cash register company the cash registers used microprocessor circuits and back then they were very susceptible to electrostatic discharge and line noise the biggest problems came from outlets that were not properly grounded in almost every place we went to do an installation we found outlets with the ground connected to the neutral for of the things you can plug into one of these they work fine for our cash registers they were a nightmare line noise tended to scramble the memory periodically with modern electronics using switching power supplies this should be less of a problem even the company i used to work for is no longer recommending a dedicated line with a seperate ground for their equipment i imagine if you check most household wiring you will find that the ground and neutral are connected although not ideal it should be o k for most applications slmr my reality check just bounced the ozone hole bbs a private bulletin board service full service nodes usrobotics k bps gigs files skydive new orleans rime network mail hub usenet newsgroups please route all questions or inquiries to postmaster ozonehole com
