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The purpose of grounding is safety: A ground wire generates a short circuit and trips the circuit breaker or fuse when voltage is leaking improperly to the electrical box or to the
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Found ground wire (wrapped in electrical tape here) bonded to neutral behind wall lamp, lamp won't work when ground wire bonded to box. Box is grounded to other lines, and lamp has
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