>one simple trick that home inspectors and electricians don't want you to know
>>2885392What does it do?
>>2885394Turns your outlet into a safety hazard.
>>2885394Burns your house down, or makes anything you plug in with a metal case spicy. Not recommended either way.
Correct me if I'm wrong but this is only an immediate danger if the plugged device uses the ground pin?
>>2885394He connected the neutral and the ground.>>2885415Nope.
>bro having a live ground is a good thing
>>2885392Congrats, now you can't have GFCI
neutral and ground are the same thing. separating them is just redundancy.
>>2885500False. Neutral is meant for load return, Ground is for Chassis discharge/fault protection. The only place neutral and ground should be tied is the service panel.If ground is ever carrying a return AC load, you have problems.
>>2885394The ground and neutral lines are bonded in the electrical panel.All this does is trick the tester in to thinking the outlet is grounded.
>>2885392does this work??fucking electrician wanted 20k to redo all the wires in my house because the realitor said I can't sell till I do
>>2885603>listening to a realitor
>>2885500Only in yankeeland.
>>2885402>spicyfuck off>>2885467this might be a reason not to do it in the 0.1% of cases where it would affect current imbalance protective devices.
>>2885603I think the hack in the OP is so that it tricks an outlet tester into thinking there is a proper ground and the inspector will ok the installation. If you have $20k of electrical work to do I really doubt the main issue is the lack of ground wire
>>2885394Reverses the polarity of the whole Earth, causing the earth wire to give you electricity rather than draining it.
>>2885663The top picture is stolen from the the home diy stack exchange. It actually has a ground wire visible along with the neutral so most likely case is there was a broken neutral or ground at some point. So instead of actually tracking down the break a jumper was added to "fix" the problem.
>>2885392He got the ground wire (bare copper) why would he connect Neutral to Ground if Ground is already connected?
>>2885789You reduce wiring losses by 25%, it's genius.
>>2885392thanks OP, I had a breaker that kept tripping, but jumping the ground and negative wires seems to have stopped it
>>2885394Bring the water back above the dam.
>>2885500Hello Thomas, your aunt says you are very handy.>>2885603>the realitor said I can't sell till I doGet a new 'realtor'. As long as the house was wired to code when it was built (and your locality doesn't have any rules requiring specific upgrades before sales) you can sell it.Now, if Thomas over here has been at your wiring at some point then, yeah, you might need to rewire the place. If its just that your outlets lack grounds because it is an old house and someone 'upgraded' your outlets without adding a ground the easiest fix that meets code is to just install two-prong outlets again. They do still sell them specifically for old homes with ungrounded boxes. You could also install GFCI outlets and mark them as ungrounded. It is a better solution but costs more.
>>2886329Realtor is just giving you a heads up. The buyer will get an inspection and the inspector will say "bad grounds' and the deal will tank... As it should... Stop being a nigger and fix your shit.
>>2886830In my area there a lot of homes that are older and have never been rewired. So, not having working grounds is expected. It was so expected that, when I bought my place, I found several outlets were grounded (kitchen and bathrooms) when the inception said there were no grounded outlets in the house at all. They tested a few, found no grounds, and assumed that would be true for all of them. I guess it varies by location and demand in your area.
>>2885580I don't understand, the outlet looks like it has a ground wire.
