Should there be continuity between neutral and ground?

It is not only ok, but in many ways more desirable than to not have continuity. Here are a couple of the advantages: It limits the voltage anywhere in the system to system voltage. If no neutral to earth connection, the system could float to thousands of volts from ground.

What happens if you short neutral to ground?

The neutral is always referenced to ground at one, and ONLY one, point. If you touch the neutral to ground anywhere else, you will create the aforementioned ground loop because the grounding system and the nuetral conductor are now wired in parallel, so they now carry equal magnitudes of current.

Should there be 120 volts between hot and ground?

You have to measure neutral-ground or hot-ground. If neutral-ground voltage is about 120 V and hot-ground is a few volts or less, then hot and neutral have been reversed. Under load conditions, there should be some neutral-ground voltage – 2 V or a little bit less is pretty typical.

Why do I have 120 volts between hot and ground?

It sounds like you have an open neutral wire ( white wire). It could be a bad connection on the device or box where you are working, or back upstream from that box. Usually circuits are run from the panel, to the first box, then on to the next box, etc.

Is it OK to use ground as neutral?

No, you should never use a ground wire as a neutral. Yes, the ground wire will function as a neutral wire and the ground wire and neutral wire are bonded together at the panelboard. So since the ground and neutral wires are essentially the same and bonded together, why would you not use the ground wire as a neutral?

How do you measure 120V power?

I measure 120v between the source hot and ground, and 120v when the switch is on between the hot lead and ground. In the light box, with the light disconnected I get 19v from neutral to ground. with or without the light, I get 90v between the hot to neutral. In the garage, the outlets read out 120v and everything connected to them seem fine (work).

Is there a difference between 120V hot to neutral and hot to ground?

No voltage hot to neutral but 120v hot to ground. No voltage hot to neutral but 120v hot to ground. This may seem like a stupid question but I want to be sure.

What is the normal voltage of neutral ground?

Voltage should read about 120 V (typically 115 V to 125 V). You measure exactly 118.5 V. Neutral ground is a voltage drop (also called IR drop) caused by load current flowing through the impedance of the white wire. Let’s say you measure 1.5 V.

What is the source voltage of a hot ground receptacle?

When there is a load connected, the hot-ground receptacle source voltage should be the sum of the hot-neutral voltage (the voltage across the load) and the neutral-ground voltage (the voltage drop on the neutral all the way back to its connection to the ground circuit). What is frequency? What is current?