Greetings,
I have metal box feed by conduit in a room in my basement that has a switch and a standard power outlet in the box. The switch controls a single overhead lightbulb in the room.
Problem: The Outlet is not grounded properly (confirmed by device that checks for grounding and polarity)
My Goal is to ground this outlet.
The source wires (black, white, green) coming from the conduit are pictured here in the top left hand corner area (source wires). The green wire is currently attached to the ground terminal on the light switch.
Very strange: I decided to simply move the ground wire from the switch ground terminal to the outlet ground terminal. When I do this the outlet is fine (ground and polarity OK for outlet) however, the light switch no longer works when the green wire is on the outlet ground terminal.
I put the green wire back to the switch ground terminal and the light works fine again (the outlet works too but not grounded as before).
I then tried running a jumper from the grounded switch terminal to the ground terminal of the outlet (Bad Idea as it sparked and tripped the breaker instantly).
I don't understand how this was wired back in the day. If you have any ideas I would appreciate it. Many Thanks!
I have metal box feed by conduit in a room in my basement that has a switch and a standard power outlet in the box. The switch controls a single overhead lightbulb in the room.
Problem: The Outlet is not grounded properly (confirmed by device that checks for grounding and polarity)
My Goal is to ground this outlet.
The source wires (black, white, green) coming from the conduit are pictured here in the top left hand corner area (source wires). The green wire is currently attached to the ground terminal on the light switch.
Very strange: I decided to simply move the ground wire from the switch ground terminal to the outlet ground terminal. When I do this the outlet is fine (ground and polarity OK for outlet) however, the light switch no longer works when the green wire is on the outlet ground terminal.
I put the green wire back to the switch ground terminal and the light works fine again (the outlet works too but not grounded as before).
I then tried running a jumper from the grounded switch terminal to the ground terminal of the outlet (Bad Idea as it sparked and tripped the breaker instantly).
I don't understand how this was wired back in the day. If you have any ideas I would appreciate it. Many Thanks!