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Default 220 V table saws and ground

Leon wrote:
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Hey It is hard to tell what the voltage is any more. LOL. 2 weeks ago
"after" having 3 new leads run underground to my home, I lost electricity in
1/2 of my house and had no 240? ;!) I started having issues with lights
diming.


Bad neutral is different that my reference altho can be entertaining set
of symptoms (unfortunately, which may also turn into expensive)...

I've seen "normal" anywhere from 107V - 130V as pretty common just
depending on where on a line and how far from distribution transformer a
run is. Perhaps not as much variation common in residential/metro areas
that don't cover such long distances w/ individual or very few loads as
see out here...

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BTW, on that 240V circuit, I'd presume it is more than likely ok but it
might not hurt to double check did actually hook the ground conductor to
the ground buss in the box rather than to the neutral buss if really
were thinking neutral as opposed to ground way back then...nothing is
going to happen but it really ought to be on ground, not neutral per Code.

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