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<blockquote data-quote="Nesikep" data-source="post: 1272409" data-attributes="member: 9096"><p>I have a hard time seeing this as a ground problem... the ground in household electrical is different from the ground in automotive... in automotive you're getting one side of your power from the ground, not so in household, you get both sides from the transformer (the two sides of the 240, and the center tap neutral, which is also tied to ground). To me it sounds like you have a bad neutral connection, so since neutral and ground are really both considered 0 volts and tied together, when you pour the water around your ground rod you're just making it possible for current to flow from ground to feed the circuit and take some of the load off the neutral.. it's not fixing the root problem of being unable to draw enough power through the neutral.. Could be a hot I guess too that's swinging the voltage around.</p><p></p><p>If you have a 1500W heater you can plug in, try that and measure the voltage on that plug loaded and unloaded, then plug it into a receptacle that's on the other leg.. if you have a significant (5+v) voltage drop only on one leg, I'd look at a problem with the hots, if it happens on both legs I'd look at the neutral</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nesikep, post: 1272409, member: 9096"] I have a hard time seeing this as a ground problem... the ground in household electrical is different from the ground in automotive... in automotive you're getting one side of your power from the ground, not so in household, you get both sides from the transformer (the two sides of the 240, and the center tap neutral, which is also tied to ground). To me it sounds like you have a bad neutral connection, so since neutral and ground are really both considered 0 volts and tied together, when you pour the water around your ground rod you're just making it possible for current to flow from ground to feed the circuit and take some of the load off the neutral.. it's not fixing the root problem of being unable to draw enough power through the neutral.. Could be a hot I guess too that's swinging the voltage around. If you have a 1500W heater you can plug in, try that and measure the voltage on that plug loaded and unloaded, then plug it into a receptacle that's on the other leg.. if you have a significant (5+v) voltage drop only on one leg, I'd look at a problem with the hots, if it happens on both legs I'd look at the neutral [/QUOTE]
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