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Default Discussion - Earthing a ring main 13A socket metal back-box



"Spike" wrote in message
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Bruce wrote:

Introducing an earth tail when not required does introduce
additional failure modes.


Such as?


Such as one end coming out, touching a neutral or phase terminal and
tripping the rcd or mcb.