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How do you ground a plastic box ground wire attached to GCFI and ground at fuse panel. Do I need to ground at the box itself as well?
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∙ 13y ago
Grounding a plastic box is a little hard as plastic is a nonconductor.be satisfied with grounding to a ground wire.
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