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    Oct 13, 2013, 05:18 PM
    How to properly ground a circuit breaker box?
    I live in Thailand, the world's hub of unearthed housing circuits and electrocutions. So I got a shock and discovered that my circuit breaker was broken. We got an expensive electrician in and he installed a new, bigger CB and he grounded it! You can't imagine how this shocked me for a second time. All the house is on two hole plugs, forget about colour coding.
    So my questions: I take it you will advise me to rewire the whole house? If so can I use this amazing earthing rod (the only one in the village I imagine) as the earth for the rest of the circuit? I won't be doing any work unsupervised.
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    Oct 13, 2013, 06:04 PM
    A rod stuck in the ground will not prevent you from getting shocked.
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    Oct 13, 2013, 08:30 PM
    Great reply. So what should I do?
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    Oct 14, 2013, 04:27 AM
    Honestly, I have no clue about what the systems are like in your country, so I am not comfortable suggesting solutions.

    Where and how were you getting shocked?
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