"Classic66s" wrote in message
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I am finishing an office in my basement and have never worked with
Romex before. I always did the conduit and wire method. I installed
outlets in an office I built and hooked the circuit to a hot line.
When I checked the outlets they all said open ground except the last
one in line and it showed correctly wired. That one has the ground
wire connected right to the outlets grren screw. The outlets in
between the correct one and where I hooked into the power all say open
ground. I just twisted the ground wire together and continued down the
line. I take it that is incorrect? Please advise.

Um, lessee- you didn't use metal conduit, you didn't put the ground wire
from each run under the romex clamp on the box (assuming it was a metal
box), you didn't pigtail the ground off to the screw on all but the last
outlet....

Where did you expect those outlets to ground TO? If you used the now-typical
blue plastic boxes, those outlets are pretty well isolated from any ground
path.

Go back to each box, undo the wirenut on the ground wire, add a pigtail to
the green screw on the outlet, and reapply the wirenut. Assuming you got the
polarity right on the outlets, your tester should show green lights.

aem sends....