[GreenKeys] One final note on safety

[Jeffrey D Angus]

I constantly hear all sorts of reasons why not to, but...

EVERY piece of equipment that I operate, from vintage TTY
machines to test equipment all has a third wire safety ground.

Older house with two-prong outlets? Or replacement outlets
with the standard u-groud three-prong types that either have
NO connection to the ground or worse, tie the ground to the
neutral at the receptacle. Both are asking to be a victim of a
potentially lethal accident.

Don't have a real ground in the shop? Do NOT run a new
ground rod outside the window. Run a wire from the neutral
to ground  point at the service panel and use that.

Code regulations prohibit separate grounds in the system.

Although you can have additional grounds, such as for antenna
grounding and the likes as long as they are connected to the
service panel safety ground as well.

Jeff-1.0
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