On Mon, 01 Nov 2004 07:23:14 -0800, Elmar wrote:

While wiring my shop, I noticed something very disturbing. My house is
not grounded. I open my main panel and there are the two hots and one
neutral.

Ground bus and neutral bus are connected and both ground and neutral wires
share the same bus.

My house is newer, only about 8 years old.

Why is there no ground? I know when I did the same work in FL I was
required to put in two ground rods.

Is this a concern or normal?

Usually, the neutral is grounded at the transformer, and the meter and
entrance panel share a common ground with the neutral in the entrance
panel bonded to ground. Any subpanels should have the neutral isolated
from ground.

-Doug

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