On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 21:51 -0400, James Knott wrote:
Doug McGarrett wrote:
James Knott wrote:
I don't know about where you live, but around here (Canada) the water supply line from the street is commonly used for grounding. Cable TV & telephone lines are supposed to have properly grounded surge suppressors too.
Regulations vary through time. Here, Netherlands it used to be exactly the same for decades. nowadays however, using the water-supplyline for grounding is specicaly forbidden, as it is based on the assumption that copper is used as transport medium, which is no longer the case (often pvc is used). So for good grounding a proper stake must be used, (just like with vampires ;-) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org