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Old 11-29-2004, 10:30 AM   #7
edfair
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Center screw grounding is only good if the outlet box is grounded. Lots of 2 wire installations don't have that ground available.
The electrical code at one time required that the house ground be to a minimum 6 foot section of buried copper water pipe. But that can create problems when the supply transformer isn't also grounded at the pole. The ground there was to be buried 6 feet.
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