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Old 02-25-2006, 11:03 PM
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I checked the main breaker again and only 3 or 4 of the wires going into the breaker do not have a ground.

So I went back to the outlet boxes and removed the outlet. I seen at the back of the box a little piece of wire so I removed the clamp inside the box that was holding the wires in place. Low and behold wrapped around the insulation of the wires there was a ground that was hidden and was touching the box.

I am thinking when they remodeled the house before we lived in it they didn't feel like unwrapping the ground wire and hooking up a 3 prong so they left it a 2 prong. Every single 2 prong outlet was like this. So I replaced them with 3 prong and I tested them, they all have a ground now. Now only have 3 outlets in the house without a ground and 1 is in each bedroom, these ones there was no ground that I could see. So not a big deal.

I even checked my current 3 prong outlets and a few of them had the ground wires wrapped around each other too. Lazy people just didn't want to unravel the ground wire to hook up the outlets corrctly. It took me awhile at each outlet to unravel the grounds but it was worth it. I even found a plug that was reversed polarized and fixed that to.

Thanks everyone for your input and help on this. You were all a very big help.
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