My house was built in 1978 before my area was annexed 5 years ago. Bottom
line- No inspectors, no city code, I've got 3-wire plugs and 2-wire wiring
on every plug I've checked.
As I understand the situation, the power company runs 240V lines to the
house with a earth ground from the power line transformer and your house to
make to split the 240V into two 120V circuits. Hopefully, these 120V
circuits have balanced current flow and there is little current flow in the
ground, or neutral lead.
It appears that the neutral (white) wire and the ground (green) wire
eventually meet at the ground rod under your meter base. Assuming that the
above is true and that I can verify that the white wire REALLY IS connected
to neutral at the circuit breaker panel, can the green screw on the duplex
outlet be corrected directly to the neutral at the socket, to ground both my
anti-static mat and my Weller soldering station?
All opinions welcome.
(If this theory is a loser, then I've got a trip through two walls, a closet
ceiling, and a long attic to run a station ground that I need anyway. It
was almost 100 north of Dallas today and you could probably roast a
thanksgiving turkey in my attic. I would prefer that attic trip be in late
fall if possible......................)
NJ5A
<<snip>>
I saw a post a few days ago about this. I have a table mat with snap on
alligator clip. I do not have unpainted metal ground. How exactly do I do
this using a resistor and 3 prong plug ??
73 de Jesse W6JMM
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