Stan in Oly, WA
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I helped a friend add an outlet to one wall of a bedroom that had only one outlet on that wall. A plug-in outlet tester showed that that outlet was grounded, but when the outlet was removed from the junction box, there was no ground wire. The grounded type outlet had been wired between one of the neutral screws and the ground screw. We replaced that outlet with an ungrounded, two slot type so that there would be no mistake in the future about whether it was grounded. We got power for the new outlet from a different, grounded, source. My question is this, is there any way to determine that an outlet is not actually grounded when that has been done, other than removing it from the junction box and inspecting it visually?
Stan
Stan