Can I use the neutral wire as a ground in electrical outlet?
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Get a grounding strap for the cold water pipe in your house and connect 16 guage insulated wire from the strap to the green ground screw on the electrical outlet. If the electrical outlet does not have a green ground screw, replace it. After all, new outlets cost under a dollar. However, do not use the neutral (white) wire for this purpose, as you erroneously suggested, or the results will be shocking.
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Well..... not really - wire the item to the box using a ground clip or a ground serew -- that way the item will be grounded through the metal in the house.
Well..... not really - wire the item to the box using a ground clip or a ground serew -- that way the item will be grounded through the metal in the house.
No man, tatll delibrately put the current in the appliance.
Better option is to connect one end of an electric wire to the metal electrical box and then use this wire for earthing purposes
then you are not code if you want resale value you ned to remedy this. do you not have three wire romex in the house? if three wire is in the house then you just have to connect it and chain it.
Do not use the the neutral as a ground, this could cause any metal parts on anything you plug into that receptacle to be energized (if the the appliance has the ground pin in the cord). also do not attach the ground to the water pipe, this should only be done from the main panel to the water pipe to actually protect the water pipe and not the panel from stray voltage. You need to actually run a green wire from the panel to the outlet box because if you use the metal on the box (if the box is metal)you will ony be connected to the box,, especially if you have romex in your house. romex is plastic or cloth as in older homes. there is no return path through metal if there is no metal connected to the box. That is what the green/ground wire does. It is actually a bonding wire to create a ground fault path that returns the voltage to the source(ie main panel) so as to cause the circuit breaker to trip from a sudden inrush of voltage from no resistence, and thus protect you and your family. If you connect that through any other path there will be sufficient resistence in the path so as not to trip the breaker and thus cause a stray votage problem like have voltage on your water pipes and even your water as it comes out of the faucet. Bottom line: all green "ground" screws must be connected to the grounding bar in the main panel. preferrably through a copper grounding conductor
You are an absolute idiot!!! The way to fix this problem is to hire a qualified electrician before you kill someone.