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From: collinge@uvicctr.UUCP (Doug Collinge)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Neutral-Ground Shorts
Message-ID: <258@uvicctr.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 19-Jun-87 23:12:35 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun 19 23:12:35 1987
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Reply-To: collinge@uvicctr.UUCP (Doug Collinge)
Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria B.C. Canada
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In article <467@rlvd.UUCP> mjl@pyr-a.UUCP (Martin Loach) writes:
>In article <583@inuxh.UUCP> rmrin@inuxh.UUCP (D Rickert) writes:
>>
>>Neutral and ground should be tied together.
>Neutral and ground should NEVER be tied together.

What I have wanted to know for years is,  why is residential service
referred to ground at all?  I understand why they balance and ground 
high-voltage transmission lines.  It seems to me that, if the transformer
was used to isolate the residential service from ground everyone would
be a lot safer.  How about it?
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