[ARC5] 125 VAC Line? Make Your BA's Happy,

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Clearly, the safest way to mount the outlets is with the socket contact for 
the longer ground pin up.  I've done it that way for more than half a 
century.

The proper location for the neutral leg to be electro-mechanically 
connected to the ground leg is only where there is a copper connection to an actual 
ground rod.  At least in residential construction, this is usually only at 
the pole transformer.  Ground wires for the telephone system should not be 
connected to the electrical system.

In a message dated 01/17/2016 22:09:14 PM Central Standard Time, 
neilb0627 at gmail.com writes: 
> As an afterthought to my piece about the insulated pins, sockets here
> are *always* mounted with the live (Active) pin and its Neutral partner
> mounted uppermost. The Earth pin is therefore always downmost and
> is longer so that it enters first and leaves last. If you can get the 
> Earth
> pin entered on the correct angle, the other two will follow.
> 
> Back at the fuse box, Neutral is connected to Earth and then they
> connect to a metal rod driven deep into the soil outside the building.
> Everyone knows that the Active wire is the dangerous one - if you
> touch it, there may be enough capacitance to ground (the real earth)
> to deliver a severe shock.
> 
> 73 de Neil ZL1ANM

Robert & Susan Downs - Houston
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MVPA 9480
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