8 Feb
2015
8 Feb
'15
10 p.m.
On Sun, 2015-02-08 at 15:32 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
On Sunday, February 08, 2015 02:53:28 PM Ralf Mardorf
wrote:
While I agree in principle, if you play in the New Orleans area you'll
starve. I don't think there's a building in any of the old sections of
NO that is wired to code. I've been zapped so many times that I'm
beginning to glow in the dark ;-)
On Sun, 8 Feb 2015 09:06:40 -0800 (PST), Len
Ovens wrote:
Tisn't the building, its the idiot who did the wiring Ralf. A distinct
possibility he was color blind or 20 years short of a journeyman card. Or
both...
I would, when something like that is found in the middle of a concert, stop
it, tell the promoter to refund everyines money, and to let you know when
the problem is fixed, you might save someones life, maybe your own
ANY time I go into that sort of a situation where there are unknowns, I have
oner of those little $9.95 pocket pen sized beepers that you can stick its
insulated probe into a socket and tell in an instant if its wired per code.
If it beeps on what should be the static ground, or the neutral slot, the
show is off till its fixed. And it is not open for discussion. And I would
not be the least bit retgicent about calling any other groups you know about
and warning them. It WILL get fixed when his popular groups tell him not
until its been fixed.
That gizmo is for sale, in several flavors and colors in any home
center/lumber yard/electrical wholesale, for various prices but are all
pretty much identical inside. The $9.95 veersion works as well as the
$19.95 version in my experience. And 6 or 7 years old, still running on the
original batteries.
Sometimes you really do have to be an a$$hole about that sort of thing.
It appears we have power coming from two power
entrances with two
different earth grounds to the panels.
I experienced potential difference for the ground in old buildings
between two main sockets, less than 3 meters difference between those
sockets, both fed by the same power, coming from the same fuse and
connected to the same concrete-footing ground electrode.
Even if the power should come from two different sources, one building
should have one concrete-footing ground electrode for ground, so in
theory there shouldn't be a potential difference.
Buildings sometimes don't care about school books. Cheers, Gene Heskett