Help with Equitech 1.5Q power conditioner

So, essentially the outlets on the back of the Equitech are wired the same way as old 240V appliances, the kind that had 3-wire cords. Correct?

That seems close, but the house N is not grounded through the Equitech. Or at least should not be. Ye olde (pre 1990s?) dryer DID bond N and ground internally to the dryer. There’s no reason to do that with a balanced conditioner... but I don’t speak for the manufacturers. Who knows what crazy things they do.

The secondary winding on these isolated devices is split. The center of the two coils is bonded to ground, so the outside ends of the 2 coils are each equal and opposite 60VAC.

And herein is a problem which the founder of Jensen transformers wrote about ages ago, that there’s still the possibility for a ground loop. Ooops.

Anyway, what floating ground load?

So maybe I am conceptualizing this all wrong.

I guess in my mind I view electricity like water. It flows in through the hot pipe and out the neutral pipe, if you will, and the ground catches spills :)

Here we have 2 hots at 60V each flowing in through both the hot wire and what normally is the neutral wire. How does it flow out then? Can’t be through the ground wire. Is it then that the two hots are also neutrals? They just swap duties 60 times a second?

thanks for all the tips... a lot go well beyond my ski’s. I’ll tinker this weekend - I thought the outlet would be a quick swap but looks like I have to take the whole chassis apart.

Interesting enough, I have everything plugged in a furman surge protector power strip and nothing has tripped. So hope it is just a faulty gfci outlet.

I don’t have any meters or other devices to measure current and if I did it would be all Greek to me.