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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: franksolich on January 21, 2012, 01:34:47 PM
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/1158350
Oh my.
The things the primitives don't know.
And we're not just talking politics or history or economics or religion here, the things primitives don't know.
LaydeeBug (2,938 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
I was told my wires aren't "grounded". What does that mean?
Must be in a blue state or a blue city.
ret5hd (9,128 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
1. Well, let's just say if we never hear from you again we will know why.
Wash. state Desk Jet (1,750 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
3. You need to be a little more specific about what you were told and by who. If for example your house has old wiring before the ground wire was added into code, than all electrical is grounded by house ground-grounding poll. That means your wires are grounded . Some people replace old recepticals that only except two prong plugs with the newer plugs with ground -or your three prong plug. If thats the case and your house wiring is old, than a tester will show you are not grounded, which means there is no additional ground .So it all goes back to the house ground.
Must be in a blue state or a blue city; it's been decades since I've seen two-prong outlets anywhere in Nebraska.
The defrocked warped primitive, she with the face like Hindenberg's:
Warpy (62,000 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
5. It means you need to sit down with them and have a very long talk about what they want to do with the rest of their lives and what is attainable and what is not. They've been around for a long time and it's high time they got serious about life!
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This old house still has the two prong receptacles and is grounded through the old water pipes from the spring once in use.
Not sure this seems like the best idea ever but never caused a problem.
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This old house still has the two prong receptacles and is grounded through the old water pipes from the spring once in use.
Not sure this seems like the best idea ever but never caused a problem.
My house is the same. Except I added a grounding rod when Dad and I changed out the service. We had to do that to comply with code. So now I have two grounds, the copper water pipe and the grounding rod. Dad always said the copper pipe ground was better cause it traveled further thru the ground and got better something or nother... resistance I think it was. Dunno. I wasn't an electrician and he was so I took his word for it.
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My house is the same. Except I added a grounding rod when Dad and I changed out the service. We had to do that to comply with code. So now I have two grounds, the copper water pipe and the grounding rod. Dad always said the copper pipe ground was better cause it traveled further thru the ground and got better something or nother... resistance I think it was. Dunno. I wasn't an electrician and he was so I took his word for it.
More surface area with the ground and at least damp ground make for very good grounding.
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More surface area with the ground and at least damp ground make for very good grounding.
Well since I live on a filled in swamp I must have some damned good grounding!!!! You can literally dig 5-6 foot down and hit water in the middle of a serious drought. :cheersmate:
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Some building inspectors are real dicks about the codes.
I wired a house service line (from the meter box to the main breaker panel in the house) for a guy, and the electrician that checked it said it was actually better than the code required, but OUR county's building inspector DEMANDED it be rewired to the specified code!
And yes, he's a :dn: of immense magnitude.
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Some building inspectors are real dicks about the codes.
I wired a house service line (from the meter box to the main breaker panel in the house) for a guy, and the electrician that checked it said it was actually better than the code required, but OUR county's building inspector DEMANDED it be rewired to the specified code!
And yes, he's a :dn: of immense magnitude.
Ya know DD... when I worked with Dad doing service changes on Saturdays back when I was a teen, Dad would always say you do no more, and no less, than what the code required... and make sure it looked neat. Now I know why. :cheersmate:
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Ya know DD... when I worked with Dad doing service changes on Saturdays back when I was a teen, Dad would always say you do no more, and no less, than what the code required... and make sure it looked neat. Now I know why. :cheersmate:
I wired a switch box for a silo unloader, including a remote, hand-held on-off box to take up in the silo with you to do maintenance on the unloader. Since I wasn't licensed to work in this county, it had to be checked by a licensed electrician.
He couldn't tell my connections from the factory ones. :-)
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Some building inspectors are real dicks about the codes.
I wired a house service line (from the meter box to the main breaker panel in the house) for a guy, and the electrician that checked it said it was actually better than the code required, but OUR county's building inspector DEMANDED it be rewired to the specified code!
And yes, he's a :dn: of immense magnitude.
Personally, I've never understood the "no more than code requires" crap.