Re: Power consumption

>Oh, and the guy with the orange outlets.... These are isolated ground
>outlets,
>usually used in businesses for computerized cash registers. The third
>prong is
>isolated from the mounting lugs so no connection is made to the outlet box.
>This allows the third prong to be grounded back to the breaker panel via a
>separate ground wire. A REAL good thing for electronic equipment, supposed
>to
>cut down on power noise.

If I recall, I had three-conductor 10ga pulled (blk, wht, grn - or something
like that). The 3rd wire went to the grounding blocks in the breaker panel.
  I've got a bunch of audio/video stuff running off of it and I haven't had
any problems with it-- I also haven't noticed it being and "better" than the
rest of the house, but it looks neat. Impresses the locals. ;-)

-Clay
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Received on Thu Oct 12 12:59:22 2000