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| Subject - Bonding Seneros | |
| David Hyatt |
This is a real cool suject. After reading the other article on the forum, I think this is a good subject to discuss. It really got me thinking after last night. Alot of old houses didn't have grounding systems, aleast like we do today. Senero: plastic water pipe entering home, non-grounded circuit to water heater, inside water heater wire shorts to housing, metal pipes inside, your soaking in the bath, this would be the last bath you ever take! You are the path to ground?
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| Electricman | Think about this. Old houses with ungrounded non GFCI protected recpts someone gets one of those adapter plugs (UL listed I may remind you )..........well you get where I am going with this YIKES.
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| David Hyatt | Crawling under wet craw spaces can be scary as well. As someone said earlier about heat ducts being bonded, if there was any voltage on one and you touch it, Scary! Not to go into a long story but wet crawl spaces scare me. I urge anyone to pull meter before crawling under wet crawl spaces. I about lost my life about 1 year ago because of this. I was attempting to wire a sump pump under a house, there was an old water heater wire that was dissconnected when they added gas HW. I reached up to move the wire to keep from hitting it, my right hand and knee was in about 6" of water. This wire was hot. 220 volts ran through my body and I couldn't let go. God was sure with me that day. |
| JimmyDee | quote: This is a good way to work the rest of your life for someone's widow. Never, never, never leave anything wired back at the panel that has been disconnected. The very minimum, remove from panel and mark it. The disconnected end should at minimum be taped. The unused wiring should be completely removed. Jim |