[sdiy] should I connect the plug ground to the transformerground?

[Tom May]

Ingo Debus <debus at cityweb.de> writes:

> Tony Allgood wrote:
> > 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > In the UK, you are not allowed to cut the earth cable anywhere. The
> > metal chassis, if it designed to be earthed, must be bonded to earth.
> 
> Some gear makes it very easy to disconnect the circuit ground from the
> chassis while leaving the connection from chassis to Protective Earth
> intact. In my Alesis RA-100 amplifier it took just loosening one screw
> to disconnect that cable. Obviously it was made that way just for that purpose.
> 
> Other gear isn't that friendly. I remember a Mackie mixer causing
> trouble, because the circuit ground was connected to the chassis almost
> everywhere (at each jack!).

Believe it or not, that's a highly touted feature of the 1202.

fTom.