chuckferguson wrote:

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Hi,
I install home computers, and recently I was in a beautiful old house to
install a machine but found there were only two-prong ungrounded outlets.
I didn't know what else I could do, so I removed the grounding prongs from
a six-splitter and plugged that into the wall. I plugged the computer and
the LCD display into the six-splitter. Can someone tell me if this is
dangerous and if so how dangerous?
Thanks very much.
chuck

Dangerous to humans? Probably not much, since computers are mostly
plastic these days. Dangerous to the computer- probably to definitely,
depending on how house is wired, and how often power goes flakey in that
part of town. Did you tell your boss what you did? Did you pull a cover
and see if the feed wire had a ground, or perhaps was grounded through
metallic conduit? Cure may be as simple as switching the outlet for a
grounded one, hooked up properly. A gfci could be installed with the
appropriate label as being non-grounded. PROPER cure is to get an
electrician in there- if the house wiring is marginal, best cure is to
snake a dedicated string back to service panel, just for the computer
station. If the people use this computer to make a living, a small UPS
box is probably indicated.

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