Electricity: Ground?
Jonathan Hutchins
hutchins at tarcanfel.org
Wed Sep 17 07:51:05 CDT 2003
On Tuesday 16 September 2003 4:21 am, Duane Attaway wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, Brian Kelsay wrote:
> The house should be safe as long as the connections are tight. Your
> computer has built in surge protection as well as your power strip.
Remember that these protections rely on a good, usually independent ground
circuit to work properly.
What I did was run a wire from the ground terminal out a window to a stake
driven in the ground underneath. Instant, isolated ground.
Your biggest danger on one of these older houses is where someone has gone in
and done inexpert partial conversions, mixing modern "romex" with old
knob-and-tube without knowing how to keep the connections clean and safe.
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