[sdiy] Home Wiring question?

[drheqx]

I agree with Mark, if you have the means to run a new wire back to the
box that would be your best bet. Also check the ground rod outside of
the farmhouse to be sure that the wire is still intact. The utility may
or may not provide a Ground wire from the pole. Older homes use the
local ground rod as the true earth ground. If the wire breaks off you
have no ground reference at all. The other thing you can do is look for
the ground wire which may be connected to a cold water pipe under the
house. Sometimes that corrodes off as well.

At a local carnival I saw a guy drive a long steel rod through the
pavement about four feet down. Then he clamped the ground wire from the
generator to it. Remove that wire mid carnival and you'd have a new form
of entertainment. :)

heqx



-----Original Message-----
From: owner-synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
[mailto:owner-synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl] On Behalf Of mark verbos
Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2005 2:22 AM
To: Tim Curtis; synth diy
Subject: Re: [sdiy] Home Wiring question?

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 -
>
> 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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