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Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk
This is the reason for ground wires. It's perfecty safe to use that shower with that fusebox located there.
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You are very wrong besides the fact of it being a blatent code violation.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/m.../ai_n14709495/
The reason for a ground wire is for the case of a phase to case failure the circuit breaker will trip. Thats it... the ground wire serves no other purpose.
There is also possible a low level fault currrent path typically through a human to ground at a very small (but deadly) current level which would not trip a circuit breaker and the current would continue to pass through said human being.
I have tesitified in court as a professional witness for this type of tragic mishap twice. I know of many other engineers whom have done so as well. In fact some make a living off this type of testimony.
Thats why GFI breakers were invented.
