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	Name:	Striper Jim -
	Subject:	How to FIX Boat Dock Shock
	Date:	9/1/2006 5:52:21 PM

Got it Wirenut! - I do understand now why the tilt swivel would not be a good conductor - makes perfect sense.

However, for clipping the copper ground at the panel and possibly leaving other things ungrounded... ?

The Cullman Power Worker said the dock should be on it's own dedicated circuit and feeding nothing but the dock (mine is)...

So, the possibility of leaving other things unprotected outside, lights, plugs etc shoud not possible by snipping the ground in the panel, as we are speaking of a dedicated circuit to the dock where nothing else is supposed to be on that circuit.

Of course, if you walk up on a circuit that you didn't wire yourself - you really would have to do some tracing and testing to determine if the person before you wired it dedicated or not.

By the way, isn't the netural (white) wire on all circuits connected to the Grounding Strip inside the Panel Box... ummm, the Very Same place where the copper ground wire would be connected if used?

Humm, Electricity - it's a facinating thing!

Another story all together is - actually, I initially became interested in the safety aspects of dock / water / electricity / mixtures over 15 years ago, as I was building underwater lights for myself and other Stripe chasers on the Lake to attract bait fish at our docks. Even the slightest water leak into an underwater light will trip a GFI at the box , as it indeed should. The GFI should be tested from time to time to insure it is in good working order, but usually if they go bad, the breaker won't even set.