> Double check your power stips and house wiring.
>
> I had a machine connected through a 50ft cable and a powerstrip which
> was tingly.  Turns out the ground wire was broken _inside_ the
> powerstrip.
>
> Usually this is due to bad ground.  Worse is when someone at a school
> cut off the ground wire of the AV cart.  Plug it in backwards, and
> it's ok.  Now connect the RF to the school cable system, and suddenly
> everyone else sees 120V on the ground of the cable system.  I suspect
> a better cable system (well grounded, etc) would have mitigated the
> problem...
>
> -Adam


I think I read about a bad ground on the cable television drop to
someone's house caused the neighbor's house to burn down when their TV set
shorted the AC line to the coax shield.

Harold

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