system/36 awefully quiet... - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

2 Nov 2000

 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 &lt;20001101172512.22087.qmail(a)brouhaha.com&gt;om>, on 11/01/00 
   at 06:15 PM, Eric Smith &lt;eric(a)brouhaha.com&gt; 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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