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joerusso
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I have a few questions. First I want to determine wether or not you are calling the nuetral the ground when you say there is 45V on the ground. Actually I would hope that is the case since 45V on the actual ground could be very dangerous. If not what are you using as a referrence when you measure 45V on the ground? The only real way I can think of to measure this is with one lead on the ground bus in the main panel and one lead at the ground you are measuring. If that's what you are doing then your ground wire has broken (or burned open) some where between the panel and the measurement point, on top of picking up a voltage somewhere. What two points are you measuring 170V between (hot and nuetral or hot and ground)?
straight at hot and neutral. And it appears that the the ground wire is picking up something or is just damaged at some point since there is little voltage at this wire where there should be none. Its a total mess here! As good as I am, i cannot find the source of this problem and its real bad.