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I'm confused why you would bother buying grounding wire. Grounding wire is intended to only carry ground, which shouldn't ever be more than a few volts from other ground, like metal water pipes. ...
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#1: Initial revision
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Olin Lathrop
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2023-10-04T12:32:36Z (about 1 year ago)
<blockquote>I'm confused why you would bother buying grounding wire.</blockquote> Grounding wire is intended to only carry ground, which shouldn't ever be more than a few volts from other ground, like metal water pipes. There are many applications where it therefore doesn't need to be insulated. Not insulting it saves cost, so makes the wire cheaper. If you use a lot of such wire, it makes sense to buy it as the cheaper grounding wire. If you would only use it occasionally, then stripping other wire makes sense.