Maybe I didn't read his post good enough. Did he test for voltage on the ears with the ground wire connected, or disconnected. If he did it with the ground connected, the ears would be hot if there is a short between the ground wire and hot wire down stream from the outlet. My apologies if I am miss reading his post.
Also by relooking at the picture he posted, it doesn't look like he has anything but a voltage ticker and outlet tester, so some of my advice would not be much help unless he were to go buy a cheap voltmeter with an ohm setting.
Last edited by Cretch; 08/24/20.
