Jeff,
It sounds to me like you don't want to live very long. Big power
hungery computers and old inadaquete wiring just don't work well together.
Joe
At 06:15 PM 11/1/00 -0500, Jeff wrote:
>What ground? ;-)
>
>I live in an older house with cloth-covered wireing and no three prong
>jacks except in the laundry room, the kitchen, and the bathroom. I know,
>I'll get around to rewiring, but everything has been running just great
>groundlessly.
>
>You don't want to walk barefoot on the slab in the basement and touch
>anything metal though.....
>
>Regards,
>
>Jeff
>
>
>In <20001101172512.22087.qmail_at_brouhaha.com>, on 11/01/00
> at 06:15 PM, Eric Smith <eric_at_brouhaha.com> said:
>
>>> The phase shift is 180 degrees! :-) Yes, it's 220 VAC, center tapped
>>> and the center tap is tied to neutral (not ground). The neutrals aren't
>>> supposed to be tied to ground but a lot of people do it anyway.
>
>>Unless things are much different in Florida, the neutral is supposed to
>>be tied to ground in *exactly* one place for the entire building, and
>>that place is at the main breaker panel. So I assume you meant that
>>people add additional neutral-ground connections elsewhere, which is
>>*bad*.
>
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