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. > > ----- > 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. > >> > >> ----- > >> 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...) > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > >>> tclug-list at mn-linux.org > >>> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > >> _______________________________________________ > >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org > >> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20130104/e3b21784/attachment-0001.html>