[Hallicrafters] More: 3-Prong plug - the right way

[~DA~]

Howdy,

The issue here seems to be that these particular
radios do not use a transformer. It would seem, if the
slightest possibility of the wiring is not correct
somewhere along point where it enters your house to
the on/off switch on the radio, you could be in for
some excitement with a 3 pronger in the way one would
choose to attach that green wire inside the chassis.

DA

--- Weiss <telegrapher at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I might be showing (yet) MORE of my ignorance...but
> what would be wrong with simply connecting the BLACK
> of a 3-prong plug to the switch side; the white to
> the other side of transformer primary and the green
> (prong) to the chassis? The NEC says never to
> connect an on/off switch to the grounding path and
> the fact that the white and black leads are
> connected to the primary of the transformer is not
> all that different from the way it was originally
> only you no longer run the risk of being "bit" with
> reverse polarized voltages. Add a fuse block to the
> black lead and shouldn't the clouds part and the
> blue sky begin to appear?
> 
> If I am wrong...and I am often...please critique
> this method because I can't see what would be wrong
> with it and I am interested in other opinions and
> theories.
> 
> ZUT + thanks, Vern W9STB
>
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