On Jun 18, 2009, at 2:55 PM, Clark Martin wrote:
> > Bruce Johnson wrote: >> >> On Jun 18, 2009, at 10:46 AM, Clark Martin wrote: >> >>>> If you leave it in make sure your electrician >>>> grounded your place right because when I moved into this house one >>>> circuit >>>> was not grounded. So I drove the stake into the ground myself and >>>> rewired >>>> it. >>> I hope you are joking, that is NOT how you ground an outlet. >> >> Hmm, that's how our electrician grounded the new circuits he put in >> our house, and it was per code, at least here. Note Kyle said >> 'circuit' not 'outlet', too. > > To meet the NEC it has to go back to the relevant electrical panel > to be > grounded there. Earth ground has a rather high resistance, that's > from > personal experience. I thought you could just hook it to a nearby water pipe ... Bill Connelly artsite: http://mysite.verizon.net/moonstoneartstudio myspace: http://www.myspace.com/moonstoneartstudio --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
