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   From: mjackson@alumni.caltech.edu   
      
   On 12/27/2025 1:44 PM, Scott Lurndal wrote:   
   > Don't blame the electricians if you're shorted (pun intended);   
   > they're contracted and paid by the builder.   
      
   While doing my thesis research I discovered that the floor receptacle   
   where I worked, although with a three-pin face, had no internal   
   connection for the safety ground.  This was a contributing factor to a   
   longstanding electrical hazard involving all the equipment on the   
   benches in the center of the room.  (Fortunately this was discovered   
   when a breaker tripped, not when someone touched the wrong pair of   
   things at the wrong time.)   
      
   I checked one of the adjacent lab rooms and it had the same   
   "arrangement."  Somebody was cutting corners when the building was erected.   
      
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   Mark Jackson - https://mark-jackson.online/   
      Every human society must justify its inequalities.   
                       - Thomas Piketty   
      
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