On Tue, 21 Feb 2006 22:43:44 -0500, "RBM" rbm2(remove
wrote:

First of all circuit breakers trip internally, you can't hold them back.

And if you could, the OP would have burned out the circuit breaker.

And maybe burned his hand, too.

Be careful OP. Don't anger Mother Nature.

Second, You are connecting a hot wire to the ground screw on your outlet,
which incidentally appears by your description to be a 120 volt outlet. The
box in the wall is clearly grounded so when you try to install your
completely incorrectly wired outlet into it you cause a short circuit


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