One (contrived but effective) method to improve the situation would be to
make a local ground to a water pipe, etc. for that portion of the circuit.
As long as the local ground in that area was NOT interconnected to the main
system's ground or bonded to neutral, it would function safely just as a
subpanel in a separate building. Can't see any reason it wouldn't be just
as safe as a normal system.
I'm too lazy to drag through the NEC on this, but I'd guess it's not
officially permitted.
Karl
> The shorting to the item's shell was the part that bothered me, but I
> don't
> think that connecting the grounding wire back to the GFCI would help.
> From
> what I found on the net and want I remember, the GFCI compares the
> current in
> the black and white wires.
>
> If they do not match, it shuts down the circuit. Nothing I found says
> anything about checking the grounding wire. I think even if you connected
> all
> the grounds togeather, they would still be just floating. That would not
> be
> any better than not having them connected.
>
>
>
> At this point my only choices are to leave it as a old style non-grounded
> circuit or make it a GFCI protected circuit. I think the GFCI is the
> better
> option. I will call the county tomorrow.
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