Receptacle replacement voltage shows as 11V

reno_rita

Thank you for any help or advice you can provide. I am replacing a receptacle in my basement. The first problem I noted was I had a three prong receptacle, but there was no ground wire. The main incoming wires have a ground connected in the back of the box, but the receptacle ground was not attached to anything. After the receptacle was removed I switched the breaker on to troubleshoot why the bottom receptacle doesn't work. There are two...

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uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

Grounding If you have a metal box, there should be a grounding pathway to the metal box. This can be a ground wire attached to the box with a #10-32 screw in the threaded hole provided on the box; or metal conduit (but not necessarily armored cable); or a combination. A receptacle has a set of metal ears on top and bottom. This is called a "yoke". These metal parts are bonded internally to the ground socket holes and the ground screw. If you have a grounded metal box... and the receptacle is screwed down so that the ears bottom out on the metal box... and you have solid metal-metal contact between receptacle and box... that is a valid grounding path. It is not valid if the ears "hang up" on...

Full answer by Harper - Reinstate Monica: https://diy.stackexchange.com/a/108242 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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