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Posted by Burhans on February 10, 2005, 8:19 pm
There is an optional Eqiupment Ground which can be installed in the box. I
will purchase this ground and install it as listed on the box.
> toller wrote:
>>>If the instructions in the panel allow more than one wire per terminal
>>>then you may combine that many Equipment Grounding Conductors under each
>>>screw. The US National Electric Code forbids terminating two or more
>>>grounded current carrying conductors; which most of us call the neutral;
>>>in the same terminal. This is to avoid the accidental disconnection of
>>>one circuits neutral while troubleshooting another circuit and the
>>>attendant risk of injury and equipment damage.
>>>
>>
>> Obviously an accidental disconnection of a neutral leaves a hot with no
>> good way back to ground, other than through a person unlucky enough to be
>> touching it, if it is somehow shorted. A 3wire dryer circuit is
>> particularly dangerous because then the whole frame is hot, and it is
>> often used when wet.
>> But wouldn't the normal consequence just be that a circuit no longer
>> works? Except in odd circumstances, is really isn't all that dangerous,
>> other than the dryer example. There is no real exposure to equipment
>> damage is there? Or am I missing something?
>
> Many solid state controlled appliances can be damaged by having the hot
> and no neutral. The disconnected neutral itself will go high to 120 volts
> if there is any connected load on the circuit. Additionally the neutrals
> of two different circuits will expand and contract at different times
> which will tend to loosen the connection.
> --
> Tom H
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