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Originally Posted by Sawmill Jim
Easy way put a white wire from silver screw to the green screw black on gold screw . White and ground end at the same place anyway if it is a newer unit it wont pull much juice. Have had to do this for copy machines where it would cost a bundle to do otherwise . Where people really mess up is they got a 15 amp wire on a 30 amp breaker then their wire becomes their breaker . when going to someone's house take your own smoke detector  |
Not legal and not safe. Do not do this.
It 'works' unless you actually need the ground circut.....
Combining the neutral & ground wires more than only one time in the main breaker box sets up some really bad traps if any wires break - which is the point of the ground wire, and you defeat this point if you do as Sawmill says.
Bad advise. Real bad.
Don't think code allows one to run a seperate ground wire either, or connect to water pipe along the way, etc, tho I could be wrong on this.
Electricity needs 2 wires to work. A live feed (the hot wire) and a return path (the neutral wire). But if things go wrong, it is way safer for people to have a seperate totally dead wire - the ground wire. If you start swapping this dead wire with any of the others any old way you want, you create bad loops, and the possibility of all metal surfaces in your house to be lightly to strongly electrified.
The ground wire serves no purpose at all, _unless_ something goes wrong. So you'll never know you have it wired wrong until you really, really need it......
The ground wire is a safety feature. If you wire it up wrong as Sawmill says, then not only do you defeat the safty, but you may channel electricity from broken wires to any metal surface.
Don't do that.
So many get confused, because the neutral wire is sometimes called the ground, or negative, wire. But that isn't correct - it is the neutral wire. The ground wire is different.
So many get confused because they see the neutral & the ground wire bonded together inside the main breaker box - and assume they both go tot he same place, are tied together, and end up doing the same thing. That is wrong! It is like looking at your water supply, and saying since the water supply line is connected to both the cold water pipes and the hot water heater, all the water must be the same temperature. No, no. The ground wire is very different from the neutral wire, and needs to be isolated except at that one grounding spot in the main breaker box.
--->Paul
So that white wire should get you anyway you go 
And yes for those who are thinking-sure hope she had someone review that. I did have an engineer review everything I did to make sure I didn't do anything stupid 
