Re: [Phys-l] home wiring catastrophe

[Michael Porter <listmoe@gmail.com>]

On May 18, 2007, at 10:12 PM, fred bucheit wrote:
>  Why does the USA use a grounded system in the first place? If we  
> used a non-grounded system we would not have any of these problems,  
> AND we would not need GFI's. Thousands of lives could be saved.   
> The entire system would act as if it was on an isolation  
> transformer. Comments anyone?

Bill Beaty wrote an article on that, <http://amasci.com/amateur/ 
whygnd.html>. Seems to give a good overview on the subject.
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Michael Porter
Colonel By Secondary School
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada