" Uncle Peter" wrote in message
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One final comment, never assume that someone hasn't replaced older outlets
with modern safety ground devices where no safety ground was available in
the
older two conductor cables! A second fatal assumption would be that the
same outlet wasn't wired with the hot and neutral reversed. That's another
reason
why the neutral and ground aren't tied together at the load.

Pete