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Bob,
I live on the Williamsville/Cheektowaga border.
No power for over 6 days.
Got a 7kw generator 3rd day and was ok except for ups power supply for co=
mputers.
Did not like the voltage/cycle variations.

Out in the countryside, Java Village the power company had two grounding =
rods in the ground.

In Thailand they have 250vac with both sides floating off ground.

New apartments/condo now have a third wire for ground but still both side=
s of 250 float.

I use to stay in older apartments with no ground and accidentally blew up=
 my computer
and in circuit emulator when I was walking bare foot on the ceramic floor=
 and touched
my circuit under test. Besides getting a shock I lost my equipment.

Ever since then I always ran ground via cable tv cable, metal screens out=
door, wire over the side and down to ground rod.

Nice to be in a new place with ground. But still worry about which phase =
leaks to ground.

Ray


On Sun, 22 Oct 2006 19:35:14 -0400, Robert Ammerman wrote:
>=A0The 110VAC/220VAC thread, plus recent events at my home prompted
>=A0this posting. See the paragraph enclosed in '*****' lines for the
>=A0meat of the post.
>
>=A0I live in a suburb of Buffalo, New York. Some of you may have some
>=A0news about a small storm we encountered here last week :-)
>





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