[sdiy] Home Wiring question?

[Tim Curtis]

Hi Everyone -

I'm moving a new console into my home studio and I've found a problem.

I live in an old, rented farmhouse.  The studio is woefully inadequate, 
power wise, with only 2 outlets in the room. 

I noticed that if I plug, say, the console into one outlet and a synth 
into the other and go to connect them with a patchcable, I get a decent 
shock off the cable.  Turns out that although they are both 3 prong 
outlets, neither outlet is grounded.  Checking around, this is the case 
with all the outlets on the first floor.

Is it just as easy as connecting a ground wire to the box, or is there 
something else that I have to take into account.  Of course I want to 
try to keep things up to code.

Thanks,

Tim




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