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Default "Fixing" crap Harbor Freight battery charger

Leif Neland wrote:
Cydrome Leader formulerede sp?rgsm?let:


I just gave this a few minutes of though and drew a blank. How do you
directly test to make sure nobody stole your ground?

The only thing I could come up with was run a thin wire along your ground
system in a loop and assume scrappers will steal that too. If that guard
wire of whatever you'd call it opens or goes missing you've triggered an
alarm?


Measure the resistance between the tower and a separate ground
connection.

Leif


That still sounds tricky as there may be multiple grounds all connected to
your ground busbar. I just took a peek at the telecom room on this floor
and the plate on the wall had nearly a dozen connections, of which 3
seemed to be going back to the electrical riser for the floor. You could
remove most of those connections and everything would still be grounded,
enough that nobody dies from a frayed power cord, but just not able to
take a lightning strike or some major electrical contractor screw up.

I'd love to see the AT&T manual not on how to sweep floors, but on
grounding everything.