Timeline for Is there a safe alternative to electrical grounding for computers in Argentina?
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| Mar 29, 2016 at 21:09 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackDIY/status/714922534987243520 | ||
| Mar 20, 2016 at 22:42 | answer | added | SomeoneSomewhereSupportsMonica | timeline score: 2 | |
| Apr 27, 2015 at 2:30 | history | edited | Adam | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 27, 2015 at 1:43 | history | edited | Adam | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 27, 2015 at 1:38 | comment | added | Adam | @ThreePhaseEel --I meant that some of the boxes look corroded and some have paint or concrete covering them. Judging from some newer wiring that I see in one outlet but not another, it looks more like a thin sheath in the wall than flexible plastic conduit, which would make fishing difficult. The house does need a little painting... | |
| Apr 27, 2015 at 1:16 | comment | added | Adam | As for fishing, it looks like it'd be at least 120 feet to the breaker box. I'm thinking someone tried to run a ground from my room around the outside of the house at some point based on holes in the door frames and a couple of stray wires at the baseboard. Not sure about fishing through conduit. | |
| Apr 27, 2015 at 1:15 | comment | added | ThreePhaseEel | @Adam -- aluminum conduit is suitable for service as a grounding electrode conductor; I would seriously doubt that conduit in concrete would either be rusted away or painted, for that matter. The plastic conduit (ENT) is a downer, though... | |
| Apr 27, 2015 at 1:06 | comment | added | Adam | The boxes are metal, but I can't see the conduits without punching the concrete out of the way. Maybe I could use a stud finder to check. The boxes don't give me any ground when testing from hot with a two-prong neon test light (bright vs. dim) or from neutral with a multimeter. They might be aluminum, too corroded or covered with paint. The boxes are set into the concrete, so it'd be tricky to yank them out and look at the conduit. Most of the conduit I see in the area is plastic. Something like this: youtube.com/watch?v=hPqtnNo0tuA | |
| Apr 27, 2015 at 0:50 | comment | added | ThreePhaseEel | @Adam -- are the boxes and conduits metal or plastic? | |
| Apr 27, 2015 at 0:19 | comment | added | Craig Tullis | Can't you fish directly between the boxes in the wall? | |
| Apr 26, 2015 at 23:59 | comment | added | Adam | I'm pretty sure there's a conduit in the wall, but there's no access panel to fish things through. Sometimes there are circular access panels above switches and sockets near the ceiling here that get capped off with small plastic discs, but I don't have that in my apartment. Moving seems like a good solution, but it's out of the question for the time being. | |
| Apr 26, 2015 at 23:06 | comment | added | Craig Tullis | Is the existing wiring not running in conduit? Surely the wires aren't set directly in the concrete? Can't you just fish an addition wire through the conduit for grounding? | |
| Apr 26, 2015 at 22:11 | history | edited | Adam | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 26, 2015 at 21:59 | history | edited | Adam | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 26, 2015 at 21:56 | comment | added | Adam | My general sentiments about electricians and attitudes toward grounding are similar to those that I found on the following page about Thailand: thailandguru.com/grounding-earthing-electrical.html | |
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| Apr 26, 2015 at 21:47 | history | asked | Adam | CC BY-SA 3.0 |