On 12/15/2004 1:05 PM zxcvbob wrote:

Mike Rocket J. Squirrel Elliott wrote:

Can't get the Leviton site to work for me.

I've just installed their 5225-WSP Combination Switch and Receptacle.
This is the older, non-Decora, style which fits a normal duplex outlet
wall plate. This item is a Grounding type, with the third hole in the
front. The house does not have grounding wires. In California, it is
not required to upgrade, but you can't use three-hole outlets unless
grounding is provided. Does anyone know the Leviton product line well
enough to know if they make a non-grounding version of this
switch/receptacle? Or, alternately, whether it is acceptable to plug
the third hole with . . . oh, I don't know . . . chewing gum or JB
Weld or suchlike?


You could also protect it with an upstream GFCI, and attach a little
sticker that says "NO EQUIPMENT GROUND"

Where is this located? I've been running separate grounding wires to
outlets in my old house when I replace them.

I think plugging the ground hole up with epoxy should be OK, but it
would be the least desirable solution in my opinion. If this is in a
bathroom, you would definitely want to and a ground wire and/or a GFCI.


The outlet is not near water -- it's in a closet -- and running a ground
wire to it (the whole house is ungrounded, if I do it to one then I'll
have this odd compunction to do it to all) is more than I want to
trouble with. I can find ungrounded duplex outlets, all I need is an
ungrounded receptacle/switch as described above and I'll have the whole set.

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Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
84 Westphalia: "Mellow Yellow (The Electrical Banana)"
KG6RCR