Kevin Matthews writes:
The Grizzly saw hookup originally asked about is a 3 wire hookup to
the electrical switch. Hot-Hot-Neutral. If the wire has a white
jacket on it, it is a neutral. Ground wires are bare.

Beyond that, if you open up your main service panel to your house,
there SHOULD be a little green screw run through one edge of the
NEUTRAL bar that connects to the back of the service panel, which in
turn is connected to the GROUND bar in the service panel. That said
in the main service panel there is a completed circuit between neutral
and ground in a 4 wire hookup. In sub-panels, the "green screw" is
removed and the 4 wires (hot-hot-neutral-ground) are run separately to
the main service panel. It's just a formality done so that an

Just a formality? Like Dave, above, you should not be giving
electrical advice.

electrician can tell it is a sub panel, since back at the main panel
the ground and neutral are combined...see above. This is according to
current NEC code.

While you may have actually looked at the code, you _clearly_
didn't understand it.


So, the whole neutral or ground argument is mute...they connect
together back at the panel. Therefore, if it's got a white jacket,
call it neutral, if it's bare, call it a ground.

You couldn't be more wrong.

scott