Nope, sure don't, I've been around the country/world a lot for a few weeks at a pop, but I'm a GS civilian DoD engineer and have only ever worked in Norfolk/Portsmouth, VA. I used to work mostly shipboard electronics, but I'm working almost exclusively on shore-side power now. (Working 100% on US navy installations and being the senior responsible engineer means never having to worry about pesky codes or inspectors, heh)

Thanks for the explanation of the inadvertant grounding, that makes a lot of sense; I don't know why I didn't think of that myself [Linked Image] And yes, Black, White and Red are Phase A, B and C! No such standards for connector pinouts, unfortunately. Has lead to some "issues" in the past, especially when the equipment manufacturer doesn't wire their UPS to the pins their drawings say they did, then switch halfway through the production run and begin to do it "right" but don't tell anyone about it...

[This message has been edited by SteveFehr (edited 06-11-2006).]