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Old 02-25-2006, 02:09 PM
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Originally Posted by jtfoxman
I took the cover off and it looked like there was a few connections that had the ground and the white wire together. Is this what you called bonding.
Yes. For that time period was an acceptable method.

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Originally Posted by jtfoxman
Can I just kill the power and unbond them and place the ground in another open spot? Can I put 2 grounds in the same open slot?
If it isn't broke, do not fix it.
To effectively seperate grounding from the neutral you'll need a seperate bonding buss, which your existing panel may not support.

There may be other reasons for your reading 120V to the metalic box.
It was a common practice to run a bare copper conductor, stapled to the stud face and rather unceremoniously wrapped around a screw where the romex connector attached the romex to the box. There was, and still marginaly used, a friction clip used to attach the bare conductor to the box.
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