I'm not a trained electrition, but I've totally wired two homes. I'm not ever going to say you can have too much ground wire, but the neutral wire connects to the ground bar and the ground bar connects to the ground rod and the ground rod connects to the kneebone..... point being the ground and neutral connect at the same junction. Seems to me if you have ANY voltage differance between ground and neutral, there is a bad connection on the lower voltage wire. IIRC the "gounded plugs we now use did not exhist until the late 60' or early 70's and were only added to the code to correct polarity problems. Some of us older guys can remember having to flip a plug when you got a tingle touching a fridge and metal counter trim......

I'm sure I'll get corrected soundly for this post...

Last edited by Rainman; 08/16/08 10:27 AM.