Check the bathroom or kitchen-  If there is a GFI in either location it
should be grounded. A bathroom water supply pipe will work in a pinch too.
Use the cold.






On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 10:53 AM, Eric Crist <ecrist at secure-computing.net>wrote:

> I would strongly recommend one of the two of you pay for an electrician.
>
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> Eric F Crist
>
>
>
> On Jan 4, 2013, at 10:52:38, Ryan Coleman <ryanjcole at me.com> wrote:
>
> > True but his alternative is I run 75 feet of grounding copper into a
> grounding rod outside and drill a hole through the exterior wall - which he
> would be paying for.
> >
> > I run my server in my apartment - it's going to be done in the spring if
> he can't stomach the cost of the electrician.
> >
> > On 1/4/2013 10:43 AM, Eric Crist wrote:
> >> Older structures didn't have grounded outlets.  Many installs used
> metallic conduit which was retrofitted as a ground.  Most places, including
> old apartment complexes, replaced the old two-prong outlets with grounded
> outlets without grounding them.  They did this in most cases because of the
> complaints from tenants when they could plug in their grounded-cord
> appliances. This is more common than you might think.  It's technically
> against code, but not something that generally requires an inspection.
>  You're not likely to see the landlord replace the wiring with THHN or
> romex due to the high cost of labor and materials.
> >>
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> >> Eric F Crist
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Jan 4, 2013, at 10:37:26, Ryan Coleman <ryanjcole at me.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> This is a really easy test - it allowed me to discover that NONE of
> the "grounded" outlets in my apartment were, indeed, grounded... which is
> fine except for the fact that my UPS must have a ground... The landlord -
> upon learning of this problem - has agreed to get an outlet in each room
> properly grounded... he doesn't want to deal with my insurance company when
> I claim the explosion of battery acid from my UPS after a lightning strike
> (a little over dramatic, I admit, but I was amazed to find that out of 20
> wall outlets 0 were actually grounded - and 15 of the plug pairs had a
> grounding pin... and a few of the outlets are still the cloth insulated
> wire...)
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