In alt.home.repair, on Fri, 03 Mar 2017 00:23:40 -0500,
wrote:

On Thu, 2 Mar 2017 20:37:15 -0800 (PST), wrote:

The neutral and ground wires are often tied together at some pint in the house wiring. Rather than go to all this trouble, why not just have the timer run a table lamp placed on the kitchen table??
another "solution" is to put a small (like 5 watt) incandescent bulb
in the circuit

Do you mean in parallel with the load, or between the swtich and the
ground acting as neutral?