[sdiy] Home Wiring question?

[mark verbos]

if you are running anything serious in there, it may be best to run new 
wire to the breaker box. Really old wiring int here I bet. How big are 
the breakers? Are they even breakers or are they actually fuses?

Mark



Tim Curtis wrote:

> Hi Everyone -
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> I'm moving a new console into my home studio and I've found a problem.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Thanks,
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> Tim
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