Voltage on my ground leg

01-02-2013, 09:20 PM	#31
fa_f3_20 Member   Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Huntsville, AL USA Posts: 196	Voltage on my ground leg Quote: Originally Posted by patrickmcdiver Problem discovered and solved. There was a short one of the outlet boxes and since there was no return path for ground, it just stayed on the ground leg. Thanks for your help So the ground was floating? That's kind of what I thought. It occurs to me that having a string of outlets wired with a floating ground is probably more dangerous than no ground at all.

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