[Shop-talk] Should I ground a floor lamp?
Jim Franklin
jamesf at groupwbench.org
Sat Aug 20 12:01:26 MDT 2016
I'm rewiring an old lamp and the engineer in me says I should ground the frame in case the socket goes awry. There's currently no conductivity between the neutral part of the socket and the frame/pole (isolated by a cardboard sleeve), so if the hot touches the frame it will become hot.
Paranoid or common sense? Any reason not to?
thanks,
jim
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