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   mstens | Mar 19, 2003 11:50pm | #1

   you have a good ground?

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   ORV | Mar 19, 2003 11:59pm | #2

   Not sure, i wired the ground of the switch to the box.  Does it not work without a good ground?

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   mstens | Mar 20, 2003 12:27am | #3

   What do you mean wired the ground to the box?   BTW 220 has no neutral, so with no ground there is no circuit.

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   ORV | Mar 20, 2003 12:50am | #4

   At the breaker there is only 2 wires, both black.  In the box I have 3 blacks, a white and 2 green.  I figured out that the two blacks carry 120 each from each side of the breaker.  I left the white and extra black wires alone.  The I wired a 120 black to each terminal of the outlet, then I twisted the two greens together, tied them to the ground screw of the outlet and screwed them (also) to the back of the metal box that houses the plug.

   
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   johnhardy | Mar 20, 2003 01:56am | #5

   Is your saw a dual voltage saw which is wired internally for 120 volts?

   John

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   ORV | Mar 20, 2003 02:21am | #6

   Thanks everybody, I just got it figured out, embarrassing as it is.  One side was prone to popping off the screw, but only after the outlet was installed.  I screwed it down but good now, and it works great.  What a fabulous saw!

   Thanks again.

   ORV

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   mstens | Mar 20, 2003 04:16am | #7

   Excellent!  Enjoy your saw :)

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   BarryO | Mar 20, 2003 07:49pm | #8

   "BTW 220 has no neutral, so with no ground there is no circuit"

   That's not true.  The ground (green or bare wire) is there strictly for safety  reasons.  It is not normally part of the circuit.  In a 220V circuit, current flow between the two hot conductors.

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   johnhardy | Mar 21, 2003 12:46am | #9

   You're absolutely correct.

   However, some 220 circuits (for a dyer, as an example) do contain a white wire. This is because some components (timer, light in the inside) run on 120 volts and use one of the hot wires plus the neutral for this purpose.

   (I added this not for you but the other poster who claimed 220 had to have a neutral.)

   John

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   BarryO | Mar 21, 2003 04:06am | #10

   Yup, and such circuits are termed "240/120V".  But a unisaw ain't one of them.

   And to confuse things further, such 240/120V appliances used to be able to tie the neutral to the appliance frame, and use it as a ground  -- a practice of dubious safety, done just to save running another wire and using bigger connectors.  Fortunately, the NEC was changed to disallow this.