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Old 11-30-2004, 08:21 PM   #1
Larry_OHF
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Join Date: March 1, 2001
Location: Midlands, South Carolina
Age: 48
Posts: 14,759
Some of you may remember my missap at causing a small fire when I messed around with trying to plug in a special recepticle. I have fixed this as of today, by having to rewire the hot wire in that area. Now that I have the wires working again I put in a new ordinary recepticle...except I spent $1.48 on this one instead of the cheaper .46¢.

Well guess what? Both surge supressors tell me that as of today, I have a ground for the power! What the heck? There is no ground wire there to give me ground, so where is it coming from? I have one idea, and it may be far-fetched. I have cable coming through this, and the same power that feeds the cable modem feeds the telephone and the computer. Is this giving me the ground? If so, why now, after 5 years of living here?
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