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This post is in responce to a recent post by Caelin Gabriel about secondary grounds where he indicated such grounds can be dangerous. I recently installed two 20 amp dedicated lines for my system, one from each phase of the main box, using 4x10AWG romex (2 hot, 1 neutral, 1 ground) into spec grade outlets. I used a seperate box for the breakers for those lines and grounded the lines to a seperate ground rod. The grounding wire is attached to the secondary box prior to being connected to the ground rod. The secondary box is bonded to the main box via a metal conduit and the main box is grounded to the water pipes in the house. Does the ground rod represent, as i hope, an additional grounding point or does is qualify as a secondary ground? If it is a secondary ground, what are the potential problems. everything sounds good but i'd hate to fry things. thanks

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Topic - dedicated power lines - piezo 10:36:54 05/31/00 (7)

Re: dedicated power lines - Triodethom 21:14:50 05/31/00 (0)

Re: dedicated power lines - Caelin Gabriel 17:38:48 05/31/00 (2)

Re: dedicated power lines - piezp 07:46:25 06/02/00 (0)

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Re: dedicated power lines - heath a 16:28:26 05/31/00 (0)

Re: dedicated power lines - Sean H 13:02:12 05/31/00 (1)

Re: dedicated power lines the easy way - Simon Linton 16:25:43 05/31/00 (0)

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