Can you ground a wall outlet by running a jumper wire from the neutral terminal to the ground screw?
Not correctly , It will show on a tester that it is grounded but you should run a separate ground for it to be properly grounded.
Ok, this is my first post, so hello and good evening to everyone and thanx for any help/advice you can offer me. I apoligize if this question has been asked elsewhere on the forum, but I did browse through as much of it as I could before I decided to post-if I missed it let me know. Ok, so my question is : when rewiring an old house, is it acceptable or even plausible to ground everything to the conduit and romex(its all metal) or should someone just put a seperate groundwire in while they are at it?
Is this kind of grounding safe or even up to current NEC code? Also, if someone is doing it this way do they have to connect a grounding wire from the conduit to the ground on the outlet or would it already just be ground through the casing? As some of you may suspect, yes, someone is doing this currently to my parents house-my uncle- and the way he is wiring things seems a bit illogical to me when I look at how the outlets are suppose to look when wired as per the diagram on the outlet box, compared to how it actually looks.
And I like to give people the benifit of the doubt, but while I was over at there house the other day I notice the outlet he was using for his power tools(from an extension cord) did have a wire attatched to where the ground is suppose to be attatched, but no other outlets are set up like this, and when I was over there today there was no wire on that outlets ground terminal either. Why would he have put it on to take it off? And why only that outlet?
It all just makes me suspicious...so again, any advice you could offer would be greatly appreciated. Join the #1 DIY Forum Today - It's Totally Free!
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