On 08/07/2017 04:02 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
So unless something is causing some other type of interference on the earth? Out earth connection is via the Neutral cable coming into the building.
I think Paul means absent being located over (or in near proximity to) the Large Hadron Collider ...
I don't understand this sentence. You don't have a separate ground wire, instead you use the neutral cable?
The building doesn't have it's own ground pole, a metal rod inserted into the earth?
It depends. Older buildings may, I know at my office I ended up driving an 8-foot by 1/2-inch copper rod into the ground beneath the server closet to provide a direct ground. (thankfully there was an access to the crawl-space in the server closet itself....)
I'm not familiar with the British electricity code. I guess it will be different! :-p
I've always thought those UK adapters you got with equipment meant for international use -- looked a little dodgy... -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.