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   From: YourName@YourISP.com   
      
   On 2025-12-29 00:24:20 +0000, Your Name said:   
      
   > On 2025-12-28 23:22:48 +0000, Mark Jackson said:   
   >> On 12/28/2025 12:42 PM, Scott Lurndal wrote:   
   >>> Mark Jackson  writes:   
   >>>> On 12/27/2025 1:44 PM, Scott Lurndal wrote:   
   >>>>> Don't blame the electricians if you're shorted (pun intended); they're   
   >>>>> contracted and paid by the builder.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> While doing my thesis research I discovered that the floor receptacle   
   >>>> where I worked, although with a three-pin face, had no internal   
   >>>> connection for the safety ground.   
   >>>   
   >>> If the circuit is run in metal pipe, the conduit itself can act as the   
   >>> grounding conductor[*]. I believe that this was allowed by NEC in the   
   >>> past, so you won't find an explicit grounding conductor in that   
   >>> situation.   
   >>   
   >> The grounding pin receptacle was connected to *nothing*.  Had it somhow   
   >> been grounded the other half of the problem - hot and return flipped,   
   >> for most of the equipment on the island - would have instantly tripped   
   >> the breaker.   
   >   
   > New Zealand uses three pin plugs and sockets,   
   >    
   >   
   > but many devices do not actually have the third / earth pin on the plug.   
      
   In the UK every "standard" plug used to have its own fuse in it,   
   instead of / as well as a fuse box elsewhere in the building. That has   
   likely mostly changed due to international companies not wanting to   
   bother with the added expense as well as newer buliding standards.   
      
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